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 Premier's 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
 * 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

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)