List of Australian literary awards
A list of Australian literary awards and prizes:
Literature
- ABC Fiction Award (2005–2009)
- ACT Book of the Year
- ACT Writing and Publishing Awards
- Ada Cambridge Prize
- The Age Book of the Year – discontinued after 2012; reinstituted in 2021
- Asher Award – 2005–2017
- Australian Book Industry Awards
- Australian Literature Society Gold Medal
- The Australian/Vogel Literary Award
- Banjo Awards[1] – 1974–1997
- Barbara Jefferis Award
- Chief Minister's NT Book Awards, originally Territory Read, from 2009[2]
- Colin Roderick Award
- David Unaipon Award
- Deborah Cass Prize for Writing, established 2015 for writers from a migrant background[3]
- Fogarty Literary Award
- Melbourne Prize for Literature
- Miles Franklin Award
- MUD Literary Prize (since 2018)[4]
- The Nib Waverley Library Award for Literature (Currently the Mark & Evette Moran Nib Literary Award)
- Ned Kelly Awards
- New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards
- Nita Kibble Literary Award
- Patrick White Award
- Prime Minister's Literary Awards[5]
- Queensland Literary Awards (2012–)
- Queensland Premier's Literary Awards (1999–2011)
- S. H. Prior Memorial Prize (1934–1946)
- South Australian Premier's Awards
- Stella Prize
- The Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelists award
- T. A. G. Hungerford Award
- Tasmanian Premier's Literary Prizes
- TDK Australian Audio Book Awards (1989–1999)
- Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction
- Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, including:
- Western Australian Premier’s Australia-Asia Literary Award[6]
- Western Australian Premier's Book Awards
- Woollahra Digital Literary Award as noted in the list of electronic literature authors, critics, and works
- Viva la Novella
- Voss Literary Prize
Short stories
Poetry
- ACU Prize for Poetry
- ACT Writing and Publishing Awards
- Anne Elder Award
- Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize[7]
- The Blake Poetry Prize
- Christopher Brennan Award
- C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry
- Grace Leven Prize for Poetry
- Griffith University Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize[8]
- Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize
- Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest Award
- Ipswich Poetry Feast
- Judith Wright Calanthe Award
- Judith Wright Prize
- Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry
- Mary Gilmore Award
- Newcastle Poetry Prize
- Noel Rowe Poetry Award
- Peter Porter Poetry Prize
- Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal
- Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry
- The Roland Robinson Literary Award
- Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize
- Val Vallis Award
- The Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize
Plays
- Patrick White Playwrights' Award (2000–)
- Philip Parsons Young Playwrights Award (1995–2012), renamed NSW Philip Parsons Fellowship for Emerging Playwrights (2013–2018)
- Queensland Premier's Drama Award (2002-2013?)
Youth literature
Children's books
- Defunct awards
- Australian Multicultural Children's Literature Awards, awarded by the Office of Multicultural Affairs from 1991 to 1995, and endorsed by the Children's Book Council of Australia.[10]
- Ongoing awards
- Children's Book Council of Australia awards
- Australian Children's Choice Awards
- Books I Love Best Yearly (BILBY Awards) — CBCA Queensland Branch
- Canberra's Own Outstanding List (COOL Awards) — CBCA ACT Branch
- Children's Book of the Year Awards
- Crichton Award for Children's Book Illustration (1988–2018)
- Dame Annabelle Rankin Award
- Leila St John Award
- Nan Chauncy Award
- Australian Children's Choice Awards
- Children's Peace Literature Award
- Dromkeen Medal
- Environment Award for Children's Literature, awarded by the Wilderness Society[11]
- Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards[12]
History
- Australian History Awards
- Chief Minister's Northern Territory Book History Awards
- Ernest Scott Prize[13]
- New South Wales Premier's History Awards (1997–)
- Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History (2007–)
- Victorian Community History Awards (1998–)
Science fiction, horror, and other speculative fiction
Crime writing
Non-fiction
- ACT Writing and Publishing Awards
- Educational Publishing Awards Australia[14]
- The Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing
- Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship
- The Iremonger Award (2004–2008)
- National Biography Award (1996–)
- Peter Blazey Fellowship
- Walkley Book Award
- Whitley Awards (Australia)
Other
- Barbara Ramsden Award (Fiction or Nonfiction)
- Nib Literary Award (Fiction or Nonfiction)
- Russell Prize (Humour)
See also
- Australian literature
- Commonwealth Writers Prize
- List of literary awards
- List of years in Australian literature
Notes
- ^ "Banjo Awards". Dymocks Booksellers. Retrieved 16 January 2008.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "The Chief Minister's NT Book Awards". NT Writers' Centre. Retrieved 11 August 2021.
- ^ "About the Deborah Cass Prize". Deborah Cass Prize for Writing. 8 August 2015. Retrieved 11 August 2021.
- ^ "Home". MUD Literary Club. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
- ^ 2008 Prime Minister's Literary Awards Archived 2008-07-20 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Australia and Asia's richest literary award launched Archived 2008-05-16 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "The Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize". UQS Australia Faculty of the Arts. Archived from the original on 4 September 2007. Retrieved 15 September 2007.
- ^ "Griffith University Josephine Ulrick Prizes - Griffith University". Archived from the original on 20 August 2014. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
- ^ "The Inky Awards - Inside A Dog".
- ^ "Australian Multicultural Children's Literature Awards". AustLit. Retrieved 29 September 2022.
- ^ "Environment Award For Children's Literature". Wilderness Society. Retrieved 11 August 2021.
- ^ "Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. Retrieved 3 November 2021.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Abud-Rouch, Aaron (20 May 2022). "Ernest Scott Prize — Australian Centre". Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne. Retrieved 8 October 2022.
- ^ http://edpubawards.com/