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
• Asher Award (2005–2017)
• Australian Book Industry Awards
• Australian Literature Society Gold Medal
• The Australian/Vogel Literary Award
• Banjo Awards (1974–1997)
• Barbara Jefferis Award
• Chief Minister's NT Book Awards, originally Territory Read, from 2009^[1]
• Colin Roderick Award (1967-)
• David Unaipon Award
• Deborah Cass Prize for Writing, established 2015 for writers from a migrant background^[2]
• Dorothy Hewett Award
• Fogarty Literary Award
• Indie Book Awards (2008-)
• MARION Book Awards
• Melbourne Prize for Literature (2006-)
• Miles Franklin Award (1957-)
• MUD Literary Prize
• Nib Literary Award (fiction or nonfiction)
• Ned Kelly Awards (1996-)
• New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards
• Nita Kibble Literary Award
• Patrick White Award
• Prime Minister's Literary Awards
• Queensland Literary Awards (2012–)
• Queensland Premier's Literary Awards (1999–2011)1
• Readings Prize (2014–)
• S. H. Prior Memorial Prize (1934–1946)
• South Australian Premier's Awards
• Stella Prize (2013-)
• The Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelists
• 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:
  • Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Indigenous Writing
• Western Australian Premier's Australia-Asia Literary Award (2008 only)
• Western Australian Premier's Book Awards
• Woollahra Digital Literary Award
• Voss Literary Prize

Short stories

• The Age Short Story Award
• Albury City Short Story Award
• Aurealis Awards
  • Best Fantasy Short Story
  • Best Horror Short Story
  • Best Science Fiction Short Story
  • Best Young-Adult Short Story
• Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize

Poetry

• Anne Elder Award
• Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize
• The Blake Poetry Prize
• Christopher Brennan Award
• C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry
• Grace Leven Prize for Poetry
• Griffith University Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize
• Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize
• Ipswich Poetry Feast
• Judith Wright Calanthe Award
• Judith Wright Prize
• Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry
• MARION Book Awards (ACT)
• Mary Gilmore Award
• Newcastle Poetry Prize
• 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
• Wesley Michel Wright Prize

Plays

• NSW Philip Parsons Fellowship for Emerging Playwrights (2013–2018; was Philip Parsons Young Playwrights Award 1995–2012)
• Patrick White Playwrights' Award (2000–)
• Queensland Premier's Drama Award (2002-2013?)

Youth literature

• Inky Awards

Children's books

Defunct awards

• Australian Multicultural Children's Literature Awards, awarded by the Office of Multicultural Affairs from 1991 to 1995

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
    • Early Childhood
    • Younger Readers
    • Older Readers
    • Picture Book of the Year
    • New Illustrator (2019–
    • Eve Pownall Award for Information Books
  • Crichton Award for Children's Book Illustration (1988–2018)
  • Dame Annabelle Rankin Award
  • Leila St John Award
  • Nan Chauncy Award
• Children's Peace Literature Award
• Dromkeen Medal
• Environment Award for Children's Literature, awarded by the Wilderness Society^[3]
• Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards^[4]

History

• Australian History Awards
• Chief Minister's Northern Territory Book History Awards
• Ernest Scott Prize^[5]
• 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

• Aurealis Award
• Australian Shadows Award
• Chandler Award
• Ditmar Award

Crime writing

• Davitt Award
• CWA Duncan Laurie Dagger Awards
• Ned Kelly Awards

Non-fiction

• ACT Writing and Publishing Awards
• Educational Publishing Awards Australia^[6]
• 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) (1971–2015)
• Russell Prize (humour)

See also

• Australian literature
• Commonwealth Writers Prize
• List of literary awards
• List of years in Australian literature

Notes

1. "The Chief Minister's NT Book Awards". NT Writers' Centre. Retrieved 11 August 2021.
2. "About the Deborah Cass Prize". Deborah Cass Prize for Writing. 8 August 2015. Retrieved 11 August 2021.
3. "Environment Award For Children's Literature". Wilderness Society. Retrieved 11 August 2021.
4. "Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. Retrieved 3 November 2021.
5. Abud-Rouch, Aaron (20 May 2022). "Ernest Scott Prize — Australian Centre". Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne. Retrieved 8 October 2022.
6. "Welcome to the Educational Publishing Awards Australia". Educational Publishing Australia. Retrieved 28 March 2023.