List of New Zealand literary awards
Current literary awards in New Zealand include:
- New Zealand Post Book Awards
- Robert Burns Fellowship (a residency)
- Adam Award for the best portfolio in Victoria University of Wellington's MA in Creative Writing course
- Sir Julius Vogel Award for science fiction and fantasy
- Artists to Antarctica programme
- Arts Foundation of New Zealand Laureate, Icon and New Generation Awards
- Auckland University Literary Fellowship
- A W Reed Award for Contribution to New Zealand Literature (in conjunction with the Montana Awards)
- Bank of New Zealand Katherine Mansfield Short Story Awards (superseded by Meridian Energy Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship)
- The Betty Gilderdale Award
- Nielsen BookData New Zealand Booksellers' Choice Award
- Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship
- Bruce Mason Playwriting Award
- Copyright Licensing Limited Writer's Award for non-fiction writers
- Creative New Zealand Berlin Writers' Residency
- Creative New Zealand Michael King Writers' Fellowship
- Dan Davin Literary Award
- Department of Conservation Artists in Residence Programme
- Elsie Locke Award
- Embassy Theatre Trust Prize for Scriptwriting
- Esther Glen Award for children's literature
- Foxton Fellowship
- Gaelyn Gordon Award
- Glenn Schaeffer Prize in Modern Letters
- Goodman Fielder Wattie Book Award (now defunct)
- Jack Lasenby Award for children's literature or child writers
- Joy Cowley Award for children's literature
- LIANZA Young People's Non-Fiction Award
- Lilian Ida Smith Award
- Meridian Energy Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship (a residency)
- Macmillan Brown Prize for Writers
- Margaret Mahy Medal and Lecture Award for children's literature
- Michael King Writers' Centre annual residency programme (four supported residencies)
- Maori Literature Awards
- Nestle Write Around New Zealand
- New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children and Young Adults
- Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement
- Randell Cottage Writers' Residency
- Robert Lord Writers Cottage Residency
- Russell Clark Award for illustrations in children's literature
- Spectrum Print Book Design Award
- Storylines Children's Literature Foundation of New Zealand Notable Books List
- Sunday Star Times Short Story Competition
- Te Kura Pounamu Award for books written in Māori
- Te Mata Estate New Zealand Poet Laureate
- Tom Fitzgibbon Award for children's literature
- Ursula Bethell Residency in Creative Writing
- Victoria University Writers' Fellow
- Waikato University Writer-in-Residence
- Whitcoulls Travcom Travel Books of the Year