# List of Australian literary awards

A list of Australian literary awards and prizes:

## Literature

* ABC Fiction Award (2005–2009)
* ACT Book of the Year
* ACT Writing and Publishing Awards
* Ada Cambridge Prize
* The Age Book of the Year
* Asher Award (2005–2017)
* Australian Book Industry Awards
* Australian Literature Society Gold Medal
* The Australian/Vogel Literary Award
* Banjo Awards (1974–1997)
* Barbara Jefferis Award
* Chief Minister's NT Book Awards, originally Territory Read, from 2009
* Colin Roderick Award (1967-)
* David Unaipon Award
* Deborah Cass Prize for Writing, established 2015 for writers from a migrant background
* Dorothy Hewett Award
* Fogarty Literary Award
* Indie Book Awards (2008-)
* MARION Book Awards
* Melbourne Prize for Literature (2006-)
* Miles Franklin Award (1957-)
* MUD Literary Prize
* Nib Literary Award (fiction or nonfiction)
* Ned Kelly Awards (1996-)
* New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards
* Nita Kibble Literary Award
* Patrick White Award
* Prime Minister's Literary Awards
* Queensland Literary Awards (2012–)
* Queensland Premier's Literary Awards (1999–2011)1
* Readings Prize (2014–)
* S. H. Prior Memorial Prize (1934–1946)
* South Australian Literary Awards
* Stella Prize (2013-)
* The Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelists
* T. A. G. Hungerford Award
* Tasmanian Premier's Literary Prizes
* TDK Australian Audio Book Awards (1989–1999)
* Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction
* Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, including:
** Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Indigenous Writing
* Western Australian Premier's Australia-Asia Literary Award (2008 only)
* Western Australian Premier's Book Awards
* Woollahra Digital Literary Award
* Voss Literary Prize

## Short stories

* The Age Short Story Award
* Albury City 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

## Poetry

* 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
* Ipswich Poetry Feast
* Judith Wright Calanthe Award
* Judith Wright Prize
* Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry
* MARION Book Awards (ACT)
* Mary Gilmore Award
* Newcastle Poetry Prize
* 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
* Wesley Michel Wright Prize

## Plays

* NSW Philip Parsons Fellowship for Emerging Playwrights (2013–2018; was Philip Parsons Young Playwrights Award 1995–2012)
* Patrick White Playwrights' Award (2000–)
* Queensland Premier's Drama Award (2002-2013?)

## Youth literature

* Inky Awards

## Children's books
### Defunct awards

* Australian Multicultural Children's Literature Awards, awarded by the Office of Multicultural Affairs from 1991 to 1995

### Ongoing awards

* 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 Book of the Year Awards
*** Early Childhood
*** Younger Readers
*** Older Readers
*** Picture Book of the Year
*** New Illustrator (2019–
*** Eve Pownall Award for Information Books
** Crichton Award for Children's Book Illustration (1988–2018)
** Dame Annabelle Rankin Award
** Leila St John Award
** Nan Chauncy Award
* Children's Peace Literature Award
* Dromkeen Medal
* Environment Award for Children's Literature, awarded by the Wilderness Society
* Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards

## History

* Australian History Awards
* Chief Minister's Northern Territory Book History Awards
* Ernest Scott Prize
* New South Wales Premier's History Awards (1997–)
* Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History (2007–)
* Victorian Community History Awards (1998–)

## 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

## Non-fiction

* ACT Writing and Publishing Awards
* Educational Publishing Awards Australia
* The Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing
* Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship
* The Iremonger Award (2004–2008)
* National Biography Award (1996–)
* Peter Blazey Fellowship
* Walkley Book Award
* Whitley Awards (Australia)

## Other

* Barbara Ramsden Award (fiction or nonfiction) (1971–2015)
* Russell Prize (humour)