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List of Australian literary awards

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A list of Australian literary awards and prizes:

Contents

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
  • References

    List of Australian literary awards Wikipedia


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