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] See also Sally Morrison
• 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
• 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
  • Best Fantasy Short Story
  • Best Horror Short Story
  • Best Science Fiction Short Story
  • Best Young-Adult Short Story
• 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
• 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

• Patrick White Playwrights' Award
• Philip Parsons Young Playwrights Award

Youth literature

• Inky Awards^[11]

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) — CBCA Western Australia Branch
    • Young Australian Best Book Awards (YABBA) — CBCA Victorian Branch
  • Children's Book of the Year Awards
    • Early Childhood
    • Younger Readers
    • Older Readers
    • Picture Book of the Year
    • Eve Pownall Award for Information Books
  • 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
• 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

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

Crime writing

• Davitt Award
• CWA Duncan Laurie Dagger Awards
• Ned Kelly Awards
• Scarlett Stiletto Awards ^[12]

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
• 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

• Australian literature
• The Commonwealth Writers Prize
• List of literary awards

External links

• Association for the Study of Australian Literature
• The Age Short Story Competition
• David Unaipon Award
• Nita Kibble Award

Notes