The University of Queensland Press (UQP) has announced the shortlist for its Mentorship Prize for Under-represented Writers.

Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF) reported more than 19,000 attendees for its 2026 program, an increase of almost 20% on 2025 ...

Murdoch Books has announced the appointment of Mark Campbell as publisher. Campbell joins Murdoch Books from HarperCollins, ...

Miranda Michalowski has won the 2026 Writing NSW Varuna Fellowship for her novel manuscript “Bad Art”. Michalowski will ...

Alexis Wright has won the 2026 Kate Challis RAKA Award, worth $20,000, for her novel Praiseworthy (Giramondo). Of ...

The Walkley Foundation has announced the finalists for the Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism.

Tim Winton’s novel Cloudstreet (Penguin) has come in at number one in Radio National’s Top 100 Australian Books. Winton also placed at number 33 with... Purchase a subscription to access ...

The 2026 Richell Prize for Emerging Writers shortlist has been announced. The shortlisted authors and their works, chosen from a longlist announced in September, are: ...

Amy McQuire is the winner of the 2027 Peter Blazey Fellowship, worth $20,000, for “State of Disappearance”, a work-in-progress exploring the real-life stories of five disappeared First Nations women ...

A total of 277 candidates from 80 countries and regions have been nominated for the 2027 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, including 85 who are new to the list. “The list includes authors and ...

Greg Taylor has won the 35th Hungerford Award for the nonfiction work Wildlife in the Open Eucalyptus Forests and receives a cash prize of $15,000, a publishing contract with Fremantle Press and a ...

Annette Higgs, a former winner of the Penguin Literary Prize, has won the 2026 Australian Fiction Prize; the book sector ...