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Longlists, shortlists and winners, and a calendar of every entry deadline and announcement in the region.
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2026 Woollahra Digital Literary Award Shortlist
Hachette Australia: The Richell Prize Winner 2026
Ockham New Zealand Book Awards: How to Enter
Jennifer Lane wins Shaw Writer's Award
Australian Political Book of the Year: 2026 Award Winners
Creatures and critters take centre stage in Hungerford Award winning manuscript
Catherine Chidgey honoured as Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi Laureate
Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for pip adam's AUDITION
2026 UQP Mentorship Prize for Under-represented Writers Shortlist Announced
Sandy Bigna's 'Little Bones' Wins ACT Book of the Year Award
Meg Caddy's 'A Flash in the Dust' wins the ARA Historical Novel Prize in the CYA category
University of Melbourne, Faculty of Arts: Kate Challis RAKA Award
Hachette Australia: The Richell Prize Shortlist 2026
Hannah Kent Wins the 2026 Ilse Schwepcke Prize for Women’s Travel Writing with Always Home, Always Homesick
Brisbane Writers Festival: 2026 Winners
Sargeson winner Mikee Donato's 'secret life of words'
Book for bird lovers judged best designed 2026
Australian Society of Authors: 2026 Barbara Jefferis Award Shortlist
Storytellers honoured at 2026 Premier's Book Awards
Announcing the winners of the 2026 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards
State Library of NSW: NSW History Awards
2026 South Australian Literary Awards shortlist announced
2026 ARA Historical Novel Prize – Longlists announced
Kete Books: AUNT NASTY'S new illustrator revealed
Inaugural Te Pae Tawhiti Awards Winners announced
2026 Book of the Year Awards – Winners
Picture book pair take the top prize at NZCYA awards
Fierceland by Omar Musa wins 2026 Miles Franklin Literary Award
Aotearoa New Zealand Book Industry Awards 2026 Winners’ Announcement
Wild Dark Shore wins ABA Adult Fiction Book of the Year 2026
Brooke Maddison wins the $20,000 Penguin Literary Prize 2026 for Driftwood
2026 ABIA winner for Small Publishers' Adult Book of the Year
Children’s publishing dominates as ABIAs crown 2026 winners
Winners announced for 2026 NSW Literary Awards
Lee Lai wins 2026 Stella Prize for Cannon
Kerikeri writer wins 2026 regional Commonwealth Short Story Prize
Short Stories sweep the fiction prizes at Ockham Book Awards
Kete Books: Messy Press wins at Bologna
Māori author Tania Roxborogh shortlisted for prestigious French literary prize
Winners revealed in the 2026 Indie Book Awards
2026 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards Winners
2025 Aurealis Awards Winners
Prize calendar
| Date | Prize | Region | What happens |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 Nov | Apply to judge the 2027 New Zealand Book Awards for Children | New Zealand | Entries close |
| 30 Nov | Queensland Writers Centre: Aurealis Awards – Program Guidelines | Australia | Entries close |