Ockham NZ Book Awards 2024 winners announced
16 May 2024
The winners of the 2024 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards have been announced. The fiction prize went to Emily Perkins for Lioness (Bloomsbury). Convenor of fiction judges Juliet Blyth said: ‘At...
Hastings wins 2024 ASA/HQ Fiction Prize
16 May 2024
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) and HarperCollins imprint HQ have announced that Kathleen Hastings is the winner of the 2024 ASA/HQ Fiction Prize for an unpublished manuscript. Selected from...
Wright wins 2024 James Tait Black fiction prize
16 May 2024
Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright (Giramondo) has won the fiction award in the 2024 James Tait Black Prizes. Wright’s novel was chosen from a shortlist of four fiction works for the...
Money wins 2024 UQP Quentin Bryce Award
15 May 2024
UQP has announced that Jazz Money has won the 2024 Quentin Bryce Award for her poetry collection mark the dawn. mark the dawn is described by the publisher as asking...
black&write! 2024 fellowship recipients announced
15 May 2024
The State Library of Queensland (SLQ) has announced that the recipients of the 2024 black&write! fellowships are poets Meleika Gesa-Fatafehi and Lulu Houdini. Gesa-Fatafehi is a Torres Strait Islander and...
Palmer wins 2024 Ernest Scott Prize
15 May 2024
Unmaking Angas Downs: Myth and history on a Central Australian pastoral station (Shannyn Palmer, MUP) has won the 2024 Ernest Scott Prize for History. Award judges Grace Karskens and Frank...
ALS Gold Medal 2024 longlist announced
15 May 2024
The longlist for the 2024 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal has been announced. Longlisted works include: Frank (Jordie Albiston, NLA Publishing) The Prize (Kim E Anderson, Pantera) Like to...
Aotearoa Booksellers Choice Award shortlist announced
13 May 2024
The shortlist for the Aotearoa Book Industry Awards Booksellers Choice Award has been announced. The 16 books in the running for the award, which will be voted for by booksellers,...
The Voice to Parliament Handbook wins ABIA book of the year
9 May 2024
The winners of the 2024 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) have been announced, with The Voice to Parliament Handbook (Thomas Mayo & Kerry O’Brien, HG Explore) taking out the overall book...
Birch, McMullin win 2024 Age Book of the Year awards
9 May 2024
The winners of the Age Book of the Year awards have been announced. Tony Birch won the fiction award for his novel Women & Children (UQP) and Ross McMullin won...
Slaughter wins 2024 Calibre Essay Prize
7 May 2024
Aotearoa New Zealand writer Tracey Slaughter has won the 2024 Australian Book Review (ABR) Calibre Essay Prize. Slaughter’s essay, ‘why your hair is long & your stories short’, was chosen...
NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2024 shortlists announced
6 May 2024
The shortlists for the 2024 New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards have been announced. Shortlisted titles in each category are: Christina Stead Prize for Fiction ($40,000) The Sun Walks Down (Fiona McFarlane,...
WA Premier’s Book Awards shortlists announced
6 May 2024
The shortlists for the 2024 Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards have been announced. The shortlisted authors and books in each category are: Western Australian Writer’s Fellowship ($60,000) Lucy Dougan Alan Fyfe...
Wright wins 2024 Stella Prize for ‘Praiseworthy’
2 May 2024
Alexis Wright has won the $60,000 Stella Prize for her fourth novel, Praiseworthy (Giramondo). Wright becomes the first author to win the Stella Prize twice, having previously won the 2018...
Book Links 2024 Award for Children’s Historical Fiction longlist announced
2 May 2024
Book Links The Centre for Children’s Literature has announced the longlist for the 2024 Award for Children’s Historical Fiction. The seven longlisted titles are: Bidhi Galing (Big Rain) (Anita Heiss...
ASA/HQ Commercial Fiction Prize 2024 shortlist announced
2 May 2024
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) and HarperCollins publishing division HQ have announced the shortlist for the 2024 ASA/HQ Commercial Fiction Prize for an unpublished manuscript. The shortlisted works, chosen...
Wheeler Centre 2024 Hot Desk Fellows announced
29 April 2024
The Wheeler Centre has announced the 22 emerging writers who will receive Hot Desk Fellowships in 2024. This is the 12th year of the fellowship program, which the Wheeler Centre...
Hammer, Morton on Daggers longlist
23 April 2024
In the UK, the Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) has announced the longlists for its Dagger Awards. Chris Hammer’s Dead Man’s Creek (published locally as The Tilt, A&U) and Kate Morton’s...
Age Book of the Year 2024 shortlists announced
23 April 2024
The shortlists for the 2024 Age Book of the Year Award have been announced. The shortlisted works in each category are: Fiction Women & Children (Tony Birch, UQP) Anniversary (Stephanie...
Ferris receives inaugural Meanjin InPlace residency
22 April 2024
Literary journal Meanjin has announced Ella Ferris as the inaugural recipient of the Meanjin InPlace residency. Ferris is a Taribelang writer, actor, theatre maker and poet, who now lives on...
Michael Gifkins Prize 2024 longlist announced
22 April 2024
Text Publishing and the New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) have announced the longlist for the 2024 Michael Gifkins Prize for an unpublished...
Local authors on Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2024 shortlist
17 April 2024
Three Aotearoa New Zealand authors and one Australian writer are among the finalists for the 2024 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. The authors shortlisted for the Pacific region are: M Donato...
BookPeople 2024 Book of the Year shortlists announced
17 April 2024
BookPeople has announced the shortlists for its Book of the Year awards. The shortlists for each category are: Adult fiction Lola in the Mirror (Trent Dalton, Fourth Estate) Green Dot (Madeleine Gray,...
black&write! Writing Fellowships shortlist announced
16 April 2024
The State Library of Queensland (SLQ) has announced the shortlist for this year’s black&write! Writing Fellowships. The six shortlisted writers are: Skye Cusack, for the young adult novel ‘The Dangers...
Ondaatje Prize 2024 longlist
16 April 2024
The longlist for this year’s £10,000 (A$19,321) Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize has been announced. The longlisted titles are: The Britannias: An island quest (Alice Albinia, Allen Lane) Falling...
Catton shortlisted for 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction
10 April 2024
Eleanor Catton has been shortlisted for the 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, worth US$150,000 (A$226,245). The full list of shortlisted titles includes: Birnam Wood (Eleanor Catton, Granta) Daughter (Claudia...
International Booker Prize 2024 shortlist announced
10 April 2024
The shortlist for the 2024 International Booker Prize, worth £50,000 (A$95,600), has been announced. The titles in the running for this year’s prize, chosen from a longlist of 13 announced...
ARA Historical Novel Prize increases prize pool to $150,000
10 April 2024
The ARA Historical Novel Prize this year will have a prize pool of $150,000, with the winner of the adult category to receive $100,000—making this 'the richest individual literary prize...
Huia wins 2024 Bologna Prize, Oceania region
10 April 2024
Huia Publishers, based in Aotearoa New Zealand, is the 2024 Oceania winner of the Bologna Prize (BOP) for the Best Children’s Publisher of the Year. The Māori-owned independent publisher has...
ILF wins Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award 2024
10 April 2024
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) has won the 2024 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (ALMA), worth five million Swedish kronor (A$710,000). The ILF was announced as the winner at a live...
