Literary Award

Celebrated Goorie author Melissa Lucashenko is giving away some of the prize money she has amassed for her novel, “Edenglassie”. 

Charlotte Wood has become the first Australian female writer to be shortlisted for the Booker Prize since 2006.

Australian author Charlotte Wood’s seventh novel, Stone Yard Devotional has been longlisted for the prestigious Booker Prize for 2024. 

Yankunytjatjara and Kokatha poet Ali Cobby Eckermann has taken home the top prize at this year’s New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards.

The six titles shortlisted for this year’s Stella Prize were all published by small and independent Australian publishers.

At just 31, Melbourne writer Jennifer Down has won the 2022  Miles Franklin Literary Award for her second novel, Bodies of Light.

Stella’s Forever Fund, had reached its endowment target of $3 million – securing prize money for the annual Stella Prize in perpetuity. 

Teela May Reid has been awarded this year’s Daisy Utemorrah Prize at the WA Premier’s Book Awards for her unpublished manuscript “Our Matriarchs Matter.”

Kate M. Kruimink, a Tasmanian author and writer, has been awarded the 2020 Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award for her novel ‘A Treacherous Country’.

Lucashenko’s work is a powerful response to the entrenched racism that still shapes Australian culture. This year, her sixth novel wins Miles Franklin Award