Thursday, 14 November 2024
Storylines Children’s Literature Trust Te Whare Waituhi Tamariki o Aotearoa has announced the 2024 Storylines Notable Book Award winners. This year’s winners are: Te Reo Māori A Ariā me te...

Monday, 11 November 2024
Overland has announced that Yasmin Smith is the winner the 2024 Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers. Smith receives a $5000 cash prize, as well as an optional writing...

Thursday, 7 November 2024
Cameron Stewart has won the 2024 UNSW Press Bragg Prize for Science Writing for the essay ‘Heroes of Zero’. ‘Heroes of Zero’ introduces readers to research by Michelle Haber and...

Friday, 1 November 2024
The Walkley Foundation has announced the finalists for the 69th annual Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism. The works shortlisted for the Walkley Book Award, chosen from a longlist of...

Thursday, 31 October 2024
The winners of the 2024 Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards have been announced. The winning titles in each category are: Birth–3 years age category:  Let’s Play (Karen...

Tuesday, 29 October 2024
The winners of the 2024 YABBA (Young Australians Best Book Awards) have been announced. Winning titles and honour books in each category are: Picture storybook Macca the Alpaca (Matt Cosgrove,...

Monday, 28 October 2024
Personal Score: Sport, Culture, Identity by local author Ellen van Neerven (UQP) is among the titles longlisted for the American Library Association’s (ALA) Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction...

Friday, 25 October 2024
Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes has won the 2024 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award for his manuscript የተስፋ ፈተና / Trials of Hope. The author receives $15,000 in prize money, a publishing contract with Fremantle...

Tuesday, 22 October 2024
Aotearoa New Zealand poets Megan Kitching and Robyn Maree Pickens are among prize recipients for the annual UK nature and environmental poetry award, the Laurel Prize. The 2024 winners are:...

Monday, 21 October 2024
Overland journal has announced the shortlist for the 2024 Nakata Brophy Prize for the best poem by a young Indigenous writer. The shortlisted works, selected by judges Karen Wyld and Eugenia...

Monday, 21 October 2024
Melbourne author and illustrator Judith Rossell is the recipient of the 2024 Albert Ullin Award, worth $10,000. The prize judging panel said: ‘It is Rossell’s profound love for creating stories...

Monday, 21 October 2024
The winners of the 2024 Chief Minister’s NT Book Awards have been announced. The winning titles in each category are: Fiction Hush (Ciella Williams, Playlab Theatre) Nonfiction Living in Tin: The...

Thursday, 17 October 2024
Hachette Australia and the Richell family, in partnership with the Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) and Simpsons Solicitors, has announced the shortlist for the 2024 Richell Prize for Emerging Writers. The...

Tuesday, 15 October 2024
Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund has announced the three recipients of its 2024 writing fellowships, sharing a prize pool of $170,000, which aim to ‘usher in new Australian writing from both...

Monday, 14 October 2024
The Wilderness Society has announced the winners of the 2024 Environment Award for Children’s Literature and the Karajia Award for First Nations children’s storytelling. Winners in each category are: Environment...