List of Australian literary awards
A list of Australian literary awards and prizes:
Literature
- ABC Fiction Award
- ACT Writing and Publishing Awards
- The Age Book of the Year – temporarily suspended in 2013
- Ada Cambridge Prize
- Australian Literature Society Gold Medal
- The Australian/Vogel Literary Award
- Banjo Awards[1]
- Barbara Jefferis Award
- British Australian Community Literary Award
- Colin Roderick Award
- David Unaipon Award
- Henry Lawson Literary Awards
- Melbourne Prize for Literature
- Miles Franklin Award
- Ned Kelly Awards
- New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards
- Nita Kibble Literary Award
- Patricia Weickhardt Award
- Patrick White Award
- Prime Minister's Literary Awards[2]
- Queensland Premier's Literary Awards
- S. H. Prior Memorial Prize (1935–1956)
- South Australian Premier's Awards
- Stella Prize
- T. A. G. Hungerford Award
- TDK Australian Audio Book Awards (1989–1999)
- Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction
- Victorian Premier's Literary Award
- Western Australian Premier’s Australia-Asia Literary Award[3]
- Western Australian Premier's Book Awards
- writingWA Awards
Short stories
- The Age Short Story Award
- Aurealis Awards
- Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize
- Griffith University Josephine Ulrick Literature Prize[4]
- Stringybark Short Story Awards
- Young Australian Writers' Awards
- Boroondara Literary Awards[5]
- Margaret River Short Story Competition[6]
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
- Harri Jones Memorial Prize for Poetry
- Judith Wright Calanthe Award
- Judith Wright Prize
- Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry
- Mary Gilmore Prize
- Newcastle Poetry Prize
- Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets[9]
- 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
- W B Yeats Poetry Prize for Australia [10]
Plays
Youth literature
Children's books
- 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 Yearly Best Ever Reads (CYBER Awards) — CBCA Tasmanian Branch
- KANGA (previously CROW Awards) — CBCA South Australian Branch
- Kids Own Australian Literature Awards (KOALA) — CBCA New South Wales Branch
- Kids' Reading Oz Choice (KROC Awards) — CBCA Northern Territory Branch
- West Australian Young Readers' Book Awards (WAYRBA) — WAYRBA Committee
- Young Australian Best Book Awards (YABBA) — CBCA Victorian Branch
- Children's Book of the Year Awards
- Crichton Award for Children's Book Illustration
- Dame Annabelle Rankin Award
- Leila St John Award
- Nan Chauncy Award
- Young Reviewer of the Year Awards
- Queensland Young Reviewer of the Year Award
- Victoria Young Reviewer of the Year Award
- Western Australia Young Reviewer of the Year Award
- Australian Children's Choice Awards
- Dromkeen Medal
History
- Australian History Awards
- New South Wales Premier's History Awards
- Victorian Community History Awards
- State Library of Western Australia Prize for WA History
Science fiction, horror, and other speculative fiction
Crime writing
Nonfiction
- A.D. Hope Prize, Association for the Study of Australian Literature
- ACT Writing and Publishing Awards
- Calibre Prize for an Outstanding Essay
- The Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing
- Magarey Medal for biography, Association for the Study of Australian Literature
- National Biography Award
- Peter Blazey Fellowship
- Walter McRae Russell Award, Association for the Study of Australian Literature
- Walkley Awards
- Whitley Awards (Australia) Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
See also
Notes
- ^ "Banjo Awards". Dymocks Booksellers. Retrieved 2008-01-16.
- ^ 2008 Prime Minister's Literary Awards
- ^ Australia and Asia's richest literary award launched
- ^ [1]
- ^ [2]
- ^ [3]
- ^ "The Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize". UQS Australia Faculty of the Arts. Retrieved 2007-09-15.
- ^ http://www.griffith.edu.au/humanities-languages/school-humanities/news-and-events/josephine-ulrick-prizes
- ^ Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets
- ^ "W B Yeats Poetry Prize for Australia".
- ^ "The Inky Awards - Inside A Dog".
- ^ [4]