The Walkley Book Award honours longform journalistic endeavours that have been published in book form in Australia. It acknowledges writers who have used journalistic skills and processes to craft a compelling and readable narrative for a general readership. Skill in storytelling, newsbreaking, news...
Each year the Williamstown Literary Festival is delighted to convene the Ada Cambridge Biographical Prose Prize, named after one of Australia’s finest colonial writers, Ada Cambridge. This prize is open to all writers over 18 years of age who live in Victoria. Each writer can submit a single biogr...
Each year the Williamstown Literary Festival is delighted to convene the Ada Cambridge Biographical Prose Prize, named after one of Australia’s finest colonial writers, Ada Cambridge. This prize is open to all poets over 18 years of age who live in Victoria. Each poet can submit up to two poems wi...
With prize money of $100,000, the ARA Historical Novel Prize gives Australian and New Zealand historical novelists the chance to be recognised in a class of their own, with the most significant prize purse for any genre-based prize in Australasia. The 2021 Prize will now incorporate a newly created ...
Any work of speculative fiction written by an Australian citizen or permanent resident and published for the first time during the calendar year is eligible to be entered.
Works must be published and available to the general public to be eligible. This includes self-published works. Unpublished ma...
The Australian Shadows Awards celebrate the finest in horror and dark fiction published by an Australasian within the calendar year. Works are judged on the overall effect of a work—the skill, delivery, and lasting resonance.
Entries are open across eight categories, including: the Paul Haine...
The Hungerford Award is open to unpublished full-length works of fiction or narrative non-fiction by Western Australian authors. Those from outside the state are able to submit too, provided their work has a heavy WA focus. ...
The Daisy Utemorrah Award is for an unpublished manuscript of junior or YA fiction by a First Nations author. The 2023 Daisy Utemorrah Award is open to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people currently living in Australia.
The Daisy Utemorrah Award is proudly presented as part of the W...
The Dorothy Hewett Award is open to all writers who have completed a manuscript and are seeking publication. The work must be fiction, narrative nonfiction or poetry, inclusive of hybrid genres such as verse novels or memoir. The winner will receive a cash prize of $10,000, courtesy of Copyright Age...
The Jennifer Burbidge Short Story Award was established in 2001 by Mary and Andrew Burbidge to honour the life of their eldest daughter, Jennifer, who died aged 21. The prize is funded by royalties from Mary Burbidge’s memoir Forever Baby, published by Harper Collins in 1999, and welcomes short st...
The Miles Franklin Literary Award, recognised as Australia's most prestigious literary prize, is presented each year for the novel of the highest literary merit that presents Australian life in any of its phases. The award was established in 1955 through the will of Stella Maria Sarah Miles Fra...
The New England Thunderbolt Prize for Crime Writing is one of Australia's premier short fiction awards for crime writing, with six categories of prizes. Writers must be residents of Australia. Includes major prizes and a youth category for writers under 18yrs....
The Voss Literary Prize is an annual award given to the best novel published in Australia in the previous year. The prize is named in honor of historian Vivian Robert de Vaux Voss and is managed by the Australian University Heads of English ...
A biennial award made available by the Western Australian Government and are managed by the State Library of Western Australia.
The categories are as follows: Children’s Books, Digital Narrative, Fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry, Scripts, Writing for Young Adults, West Australian History and West...
Each year the Williamstown Literary Festival is delighted to convene the Ada Cambridge Prizes (The Adas), named after one of Australia’s finest colonial writers, Ada Cambridge. This prize is open to writers between 14 and 18 years of age who live, work or study in the western suburbs of Melbourne....
Awards for the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults are made in four categories: Young Adult Fiction, Junior Fiction, Non-fiction and Picture Book.
Five finalists are selected for each category and from these a winner in each category is selected.
Young Adult Fiction and ...
The Ockham New Zealand Book Awards are the country’s premier literary honors for books written by New Zealanders. These awards have a rich history, having evolved from earlier literary awards. The original awards were established in 1968 as the Wattie Book Awards, later becoming the Goodman Field...
