Awards

The WINNERS for the Indie Book Awards 2025 have been announced. The Indie Book Awards recognise and celebrate indie booksellers as the number one supporters of Australian authors. Since the Awards inception in 2008, Indies have a well-deserved reputation for picking the best of the best in Australian writing. The category winners were announced on Monday 24 March, 2025.

The shortlist for the $60,000 Stella Prize for women and non-binary writers has been announced.

The Booker Prize selections chosen by the 2024 judging panel feature blackly comic page-turners, multigenerational epics, meditations on the pain of exile – plus a crime caper, a spy thriller, an unflinching account of girls’ boxing and a reimagining of a 19th-century classic.

The ARA Historical Novel Prize is the richest genre-based literary award in Australasia, incorporating both an Adult category and a category for Children and Young Adult (CYA).

The WINNER for the 2024 Miles Franklin Literary Award has been announced. The Miles Franklin Literary Award celebrates novels of the highest literary merit that tell stories about Australian life, shining a light on some of the country’s most talented writers. The winner receives $60,000.

In 1946 the CBCA established annual book awards to promote children's books of high literary and artistic quality. These awards are now the most influential and highly respected in Australia.

The NSW Premier’s Literary Awards are the richest and longest running state-based literary awards in Australia and cover all genres of writing.