Awards

The shortlist for the 2024 Miles Franklin Literary Award has been announced. The Miles Franklin Literary Award celebrates novels of the highest literary merit that tell stories about Australian life, shining a light on some of the country’s most talented writers. The winner receives $60,000.

First Year by Kristina Ross has won this year’s $20,000 Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript by an author under the age of 35.

The NSW Premier’s Literary Awards are the richest and longest running state-based literary awards in Australia and cover all genres of writing.

The winner of the 12th Annual Stella Prize has been announced.

The winners for the Indie Book Awards 2024 have been announced. The Indie Book Awards recognise and celebrate indie booksellers as the number one supporters of Australian authors. Since the Awards inception in 2008, Indies have a well-deserved reputation for picking the best of the best in Australian writing. The category winners were announced on Monday the 25th of March, 2024.

The Booker Prize celebrates authors who have written about 2023's most important issues including climate change, immigration, financial hardship, the persecution of minorities and political extremism. Each of these books are inspired by current reality and look towards the future.

The ARA Historical Novel Prize is the richest genre-based literary award in Australasia, incorporating both an Adult category and a category for Children and Young Adult (CYA).

The Ned Kelly Awards have been running since 1995, making them Australia’s oldest crime fiction and true crime awards. In its announcement, ACWA said that the shortlist highlights the ‘strength and identity’ of Australian crime writing. ‘It is particularly pleasing to see authors continuing to break away from some of the more common crime tropes, with an even larger variety of characters, settings and social diversity in this year’s entries than we have received before,’ ACWA said. ACWA expects to announce the winners in about four weeks.

The Pulitzer Prizes recognise high quality and distinguished American writers and stories. The prize winner receives $15,000.