Australian Book Awards

Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature
Adelaide Festival awards for literature are an initiative of the Government of South Australia and are managed through Arts SA. The awards are about supporting published and unpublished works by emerging and established writers, across a number of genres.

The Age Book of the Year Awards
The Age Melbourne Writers' Festival is opened with the announcement of The Age Book of the Year Award.

Aurealis Awards
The Aurealis Awards were established in 1995 by Chimaera Publications, the publishers of Aurealis magazine, to recognise the achievements of Australian science fiction, fantasy and horror writers.

Australian Book Industry Awards
This entry period applies to eight categories of book awards, for adult and children’s titles, two marketing campaign awards (one for booksellers and one for publishers) and an international success award. All entries will be submitted via the Awards website and entries must include the ISBN and a 300 dpi, 17 cm high jpg file for each entry. There is no limit on the number of entries that can be submitted.

Australian Shadows Awards
The Australian Shadows is an annual award presented by the AHWA and judged on the overall effect - the skill, delivery, and lasting resonance - of a work of horror fiction written or edited by an Australian and published either in Australia or overseas.

Blake Dawson Prize for Business Literature
The Blake Dawson Prize for Business Literature is an annual award established as a way of encouraging the highest possible standards of literary commentary on Australian business and financial affairs.

CAL Waverley Library Award for Literature
Now in its ninth year, this major Award, open to any Australian Citizen, or permanent resident of Australia, offers a winner’s prize of $20,000. The winning author will also be presented with “The Nib”, a specially commissioned statuette commemorating each year’s event.
Additionally, each of the short-listed authors will receive the Alex Buzo Shortlist Prize.

Indie Book Award
Now in its second year, The Indie Book Award is all about Australian independent booksellers showing the strength of their support for Australian authors and celebrating the very best of Australian writing.

The John Button Price
The Prize, created in memory of the late Industry Minister, Senator and writer, awards $20,000 to the best piece of non-fiction writing on politics or public policy published in the previous year.

Kathleen Mitchell Award
The Kathleen Mitchell Award is a biennial Award dedicated to encouraging young Australian authors to achieve their dreams.

Kibble Literary Award
For women writers of a published book of fiction or nonfiction classifiable as 'life writing'. Life writing for the purpose of this award includes novels, autobiography, biography, travel and other writing with a strong personal element.

Max Affords Playwrights' Award
This award is an initiative of the late Thelma May Afford in memory of her husband, Max Afford. She wanted to provide young writers with the incentive to improve their creative writing as well as to enhance the general public’s appreciation of Australian drama and playwrights.

The Miles Franklin Literary Award
The Miles Franklin Literary Award, our first and most prestigious literary award, was established in 1954 with a bequest from the author Miles Franklin. She was concerned to see Australian literature flourish and knew first hand the struggles most authors have in Australia. The Miles Franklin Literary Award celebrates Australian character and creativity and nurtures the continuing life of literature about Australia. It is awarded for the novel of the year which is of the highest literary merit and presents Australian life in any of its phases.

National Biography Award
For a published work of biographical or autobiographical writing. The National Biography Award was established in 1996 to encourage the highest standards of writing biography and autobiography and to promote public interest in those genres. The National Biography Award is administered by the State Library of New South Wales on behalf of the award's benefactors, Geoffrey Cains and Michael Crouch.

Northern Territory Literary Awards
The Territory’s best poems, short stories, scripts, essays and screenplays have been judged from more than 200 entries received across Central Australia, Tennant Creek, Katherine and Darwin.

The Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing
The Crime Writers Association of Australia was set up in the mid 1990s to promote and encourage Australian crimewriting through the establishment of the Ned Kelly Awards. The 'annual Neddies' have subsequently become an eagerly anticipated fixture on the Australian literary scene.

The NSW Premier’s Literary Awards
The NSW Premier’s Literary Awards honour both new and familiar writers, and the novels, poems, biographies, histories, plays and screenplays that have delighted readers of all ages since 1979.

Prime Minister's Literary Awards
The Prime Minister's Literary Awards celebrate the contribution of Australian literature to the nation's cultural and intellectual life. The awards, held annually, recognise literature's importance to our national identity, community and economy.

The Queensland Premier's Literary Awards
The Queensland Premier's Literary Awards aim to nurture Australia's greatest talent, and to support and encourage the development of up-and-coming authors. Since its inception in 1998, the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards have grown to become one of the leading literary awards programs in Australia. It is held in high esteem for its richness, diversity and generosity to winning authors.

The Stanner Award
AIATSIS established the Stanner Award in 1985 in recognition of the significant contribution of the late Emer. Professor W.E.H. (Bill) Stanner to the establishment and development of the Institute. One award may be given each year for the best published contribution to Australian Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Studies that is considered by Council to be a significant work of scholarship in Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Studies and which reflects the dynamic nature of Professor Stanner’s life and work.

Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards
The Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards will receive an additional $80,000 a year in State Government funding, following a comprehensive external review of two literary awards.