List of Australian literary awards

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

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

Ned Kelly Awards

New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards

Nita Kibble Literary Award

Patricia Weickhardt Award

Patrick White Award

Prime Minister's Literary Awards

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

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

Stringybark Short Story Awards

Young Australian Writers' Awards

Boroondara Literary Awards

Margaret River Short Story Competition

Poetry

ACT Writing and Publishing Awards

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

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

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

W B Yeats Poetry Prize for Australia

Plays

Patrick White Playwrights' Award

Philip Parsons Young Playwrights Award

Youth literature

Inky Awards

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) — WAYRBA Committee

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

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

Peter Blazey Fellowship

Walter McRae Russell Award, Association for the Study of Australian Literature

Walkley Awards

Whitley Awards (Australia) Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales