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Text Prize Shortlist Announced
Which book will get the gold badge? Four novels, all by women writers, have been shortlisted for the 2013 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing. The four were selected from 350 submissions for the award, worth $10,000. The award is open ... |
21/05/2013 1:22:33 PM |
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Shortlist for Patrick White Playwrights' Award
Six plays have been shortlisted from a field of 158 for the Sydney Theatre Company’s annual Patrick White Playwrights’ Award. The winner will be announced on 24 May, when a rehearsed reading of the winning play will be presented at Sydney's ... |
08/05/2013 8:27:58 AM |
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All Female Shortlist for the Miles Franklin
Women outnumbered men by a ratio of 4:1 on the longlist for the 2013 Miles Franklin Literary Award, but the shortlist is 100% female. The five shortlisted authors and titles, three of which are debut novels, are: Floundering by Romy Ash The ... |
30/04/2013 12:00:45 PM |
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Children's Book Shortlists for 2013 ABIA Awards
The Australian Publishers' Association has announced the shortlists for the 2013 Australian Book Industry Awards. There are two children's awards up for grabs: Book of the Year for Younger Children (up to 8 years) Book of the Year for Older ... |
30/04/2013 8:27:48 AM |
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Shortlists Announced for 2013 Australian Book Industry Awards
The Australian Publishers' Association has announced the shortlists for the 2013 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA). There are 22 awards in total to be given, with theawards split between awards for publishers and awards for published books, both ... |
29/04/2013 12:27:22 PM |
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Nib Award Nominations Open
Nominations for the 2013 'The Nib',Waverley Library's Award for Literature are open. The award recognises excellence in literary research, and the winning book may be in any genre, whether non-fiction or fiction. Only books published between 1 July 2012 ... |
19/04/2013 7:12:28 AM |
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Australian Shadows Awards Winners 2012 Announced
The Australian Horror Writers Association has announced the winners of the 2012 Australian Shadows Awards. The Shadows are awarded to the stories and collections that best typify the horror genre, 'delivering a sense of "creeping dread", leaving ... |
18/04/2013 7:51:00 AM |
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Carrie Tiffany Wins Inaugural Stella Prize
Carrie Tiffany's novel Mateship with Birds is the inaugural winner of the Stella Prize. The prize is a major new literary award celebrating Australian women's writing. As the winner, Tiffany (pictured, at left) received $50,000 in prize money, of which ... |
17/04/2013 10:32:33 AM |
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Submissions Open for Bruce Dawe Poetry Prize
TheBruce Dawe National Poetry Prizeis now accepting submissions. Poets have until 30 June to enter for the award, worth $2,000 this year, up from last year's $1,500.Dawe (pictured at left) is one of Australia's most acclaimed contemporary poets. He said ... |
16/04/2013 11:39:20 AM |
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NSW Premier’s Literary Awards Shortlists Announced
The shortlists for the 2013 New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awardshave been announced. There are a large number of prizes on offer in a range of categories - fiction, non-fiction, poetry, children's, young people's, play- and script-writing, new ... |
15/04/2013 12:43:36 PM |
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Kibble and Dobbie Award Longlists Announced
The longlists for this year’sKibble Literary Awards for Women Writers, which comprise two awards, presented annually, have been announced. The Kibble (worth $30,000 in 2013) recognises the work of an established Australian female writer while the ... |
12/04/2013 8:16:39 AM |
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A Week of Shortlists
While no longlisted Australian author made theInternational IMPAC Dublin Literary Awardshortlist, announced this week, Australians are in contention for other international prizes. Five first-time Australian novelists have beenshortlistedfor this ... |
11/04/2013 10:25:08 AM |
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Children's Book Council of Australia Awards Shortlists Announced
The Children's Book Council of Australia has announced its 2013Book of the Year shortlist. The list is broken up into four categories - older readers, younger readers, early childhood and picture books. In the older reader category, six books are in ... |
11/04/2013 8:09:09 AM |
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Three Writing Fellowships on Offer to Queensland Writers
Three $15,000 Queensland Writers Fellowships have been established by theQueenslandLiterar... |
28/03/2013 3:59:37 PM |
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Miles Franklin Longlist Announced
Women outnumber men by a ratio of 4:1 on the longlist for the 2013 Miles Franklin Literary Award. The ten authors and titles, five of which are debut novels, are: Floundering by Romy Ash Lola Bensky by Lily Brett Street to Street by Brian ... |
27/03/2013 8:46:56 AM |
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Winners of the Indie Awards Announced
M. L. Stedman was a double winner at this year's2013 Australian Independent Bookseller Awards, commonly known as The Indie Awards. Stedman won the debut fiction category for her novel, The Light Between Oceans, and also took out the 2013 Indie Book of the ... |
26/03/2013 12:03:20 PM |
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James Boyce Wins the Tasmania Book Prize
James Boyce has won the Tasmania Book Prize for the second time. Boyce won the $25,000 prize for 1835: The Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia, published by Black Inc. The award is the top prize in the Tasmanian Literary Prizes, and is ... |
26/03/2013 9:36:18 AM |
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Nominations Now Open for the 2014 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature
Nominations for the 2014 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literatureare now open. The awards, which are held only every second year, include both national and SA-specific prizes and fellowships. The winners will be announced during Adelaide Writers' Week as ... |
21/03/2013 9:31:23 AM |
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Shortlist for the Stella Prize Announced
The shortlist for the inaugural Stella Prize has been announced. Named after one of Australia’s most important female authors,Stella Maria Miles Franklin, the Stella Prize is a new literary award for Australian women's writing. It is worth $50,000. ... |
20/03/2013 12:03:46 PM |
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The Miles of Reading Challenge
Could you read every book on the Miles Franklin Literary Award longlist? The Trust Company, who administer Miles Franklin's bequest, hope lots of people can, and will, in 2013. They have launched theMiles of Reading Challengeto support Franklin's wish of ... |
20/03/2013 9:06:22 AM |