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Category Archives: Awards & Prize Lists
Nebula Awards
Sci-Fi and fantasy lovers, here are some great reads for you.
The Nebula Awards are voted on, and presented by, active members of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc. With its 1,500 members, many of the leading writers of science fiction and fantasy, it awards the best in sci-fi and fantasy one of major fiction genres.
Stella Prize 2015 Longlist
INDIE Book Award 2015
The Indie Awards shortlist for 2015 has been announced!
How many have you read?
Pick your winners from the shortlist before they are announced on 25th March 2015.
DEBUT FICTION
Lost & found by Brooke Davis
Foreign soil by Maxine Beneba Clarke
The strays by Emily Bitto
After Darkness by Christine Piper
FICTION
Amnesia by Peter Carey
Golden Boys by Sonya Hartnett
The Rosie effect by Graeme Simsion
When the night comes by Favel Parrett
NON FICTION
This house of grief by Helen Garner
The Bush: travels in the heart of Australia by Don Watson
Where song began by Tim Low
Cadence by Emma Ayres
CHILDREN’S & YOUNG ADULT
The 52-storey treehouse by Andy Griffiths
Pig the Pug by Aaron Blabey
Withering-by-sea by Judith Rossell
Laurinda by Alice Pung
NSW State Library launches humour-writing prize
The State Library of NSW (SLNSW) has announced the launch of the inaugural Russell Prize for Humour Writing to ‘celebrate, recognise and encourage humour writing, and to promote interest in this genre’.
The biennial prize, worth $10,000, is open to published works of fiction, memoir, poetry and verse by Australian writers. It is being funded ‘by the generous bequest of the late Peter Wentworth Russell, a farmer, businessman and passionate reader,’ SLNSW said in a statement. The award’s patron will be author and journalist Peter FitzSimons.