literary prizes

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

Miles Franklin Award winner Shankari Chandran sits down with Women’s Agenda to talk about the importance of prioritising one’s own artwork.

NSW Premier’s Literary Awards awarded six female authors prizes, spanning across a range of categories including Indigenous Writers’ Prize.

Evelyn Araluen has won the 2022 Stella Prize for her debut and explosive collection of poetry, Dropbear, published last year.

Spanning fiction and non-fiction, the six shortlisted titles for the 2021 Stella Prize showcase some of Australia’s best.

For the first time in the Women’s prize for fiction history, a trans woman has been nominated for the £30,000 ($54,000) award.

Laura Jean McKay has been awarded two prizes in the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards for her novel The Animals in That Country.

Tara June Winch has won the 2020 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for her novel The Yield, taking out the $80,000 fiction category.

The Booker Prize has jointly awarded to Canadian writer Margaret Atwood and British-born Anglo-Nigerian novelist Bernadine Evaristo.