Tuesday, 8 October 2024
The shortlist for this year’s UNSW Press Bragg Prize for Science Writing has been announced. Shortlisted pieces are: ‘Of Moths and Marsupials’ by Kate Evans ‘The World’s Oldest Story Is...

Monday, 7 October 2024
Author Ellen van Neerven is the recipient of the 2024 Creative Australia Fellowship for literature, worth $80,000. Van Neerven’s fellowship ‘will allow for the creation of new work over two...

Monday, 30 September 2024
The New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) (NZSA) has announced Steph Matuku as the inaugural winner of the $5000 NZSA Shaw Writer’s Award....

Tuesday, 24 September 2024
The Hunter Writers’ Centre has announced the winners of the 2024 Newcastle Poetry Prize. Winning pieces include: First prize ($15,000) ‘Dombóvár’ by Christopher (Kit) Kelen Second prize ($5000) ‘Welcome Swallow’...

Monday, 23 September 2024
The New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) has announced Jacqueline Leckie as the recipient of the 2024 NZSA Peter and Dianne Beatson Fellowship,...

Monday, 23 September 2024
In the UK, Australian author Francesca de Tores has won the 2024 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize for Best Published Novel for her novel Saltblood (Bloomsbury). De Tores’ novel charts...

Monday, 23 September 2024
The shortlist for the 2024 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award has been announced. Shortlisted manuscripts include: ‘Far From Wonderful’, a fiction work by Howard McKenzie-Murray ‘Screech’, a fiction work by...

Tuesday, 17 September 2024
Australian author Charlotte Wood has been shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize for her novel Stone Yard Devotional (A&U). The six books shortlisted for the £50,000 (A$97,828) prize are: Creation Lake (Rachel...

Monday, 16 September 2024
A new award category, the John Clarke Prize for Humour Writing, has been added to the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards (VPLAs), named in honour of satirist, writer and actor John...

Monday, 16 September 2024
The 2024 winners of the Danger Awards have been announced. Winners in each category are: Fiction The Tea Ladies (Amanda Hampson, Penguin) Debut fiction   Lenny Marks Gets Away with Murder (Kerryn Mayne,...

Tuesday, 10 September 2024
In the UK, Question 7 by Australian author Richard Flanagan (Knopf) has been longlisted for the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction, worth £50,000 (A$98,120). The 12 titles longlisted for...

Monday, 9 September 2024
Varuna, the National Writers’ House has announced the recipients of its residential fellowships for 2025, including eight flagship fellowship recipients. The writers and their projects are: Eleanor Dark flagship fellowship...

Monday, 9 September 2024
The winners of the 2024 NSW Premier’s History Awards, worth a total of $85,000, were announced on 6 September at the State Library of NSW (SLNSW) as part of NSW...

Monday, 9 September 2024
Hachette, in partnership with the Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF), has announced the longlist for the 2024 Richell Prize for Emerging Writers. The 21 longlisted writers, chosen from over 1000 entrants,...

Thursday, 5 September 2024
The Historical Novel Society Australasia (HNSA) has announced the longlists for the 2024 ARA Historical Novel Prize. The longlisted titles are: Adult category The Unearthed (Lenny Bartulin, A&U) Women &...

Wednesday, 4 September 2024
The Melbourne Prize for Literature has named the four authors in the running for the $60,000 award in 2024. The shortlisted authors are: Patricia Cornelius Garry Disher  π O Alexis...