BCL Books - Award Winners & Competitions

Major Australian and International Award Winners

• National Biography Award
• Commonwealth Writer's Prize
• Hugo Award
• Queensland Premier's Literary Award
• Kate Greenaway Medal
• Carnegie Medal
• Man Booker Prize
• Ned Kelly Awards
• Age Book of the Year
• Children's Book Council of Australia Awards
• Victorian Premiers Literary Awards
• National Book Awards (US)
• Newbery Medal
• Pulitzer Prize
• Caldecott Medal
• Samuel Johnson Prize
• Prime Ministers Prize for History
• Miles Franklin Award
• WA Premier's Book Awards
• Man Booker International Prize
• NSW Premier's Literary Awards
• Nobel Prize in Literature
• IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
• Costa (Formerly Whitbread) Award
• Orange Prize for Fiction

Australian Prizes and Competitions Open to the Public

• ABC Fiction Award - For unpublished adult fiction manuscripts.
   
• ABC New England Online Writing Competition - Australian Broadcasting Corporation's annual short fiction competition.
   
• Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature - Run by Arts SA.
   
• Association for the Study of Australian Literature - See Awards for a range of awards for biography, poetry, and academic papers on Australian literature.
   
• Allen & Unwin - See The Australian / Vogel Award - One of the largest awards for unpublished novelists who are under 35. See also The Iremonger Award for Writing on Public Issues for unpublished non-fiction manuscripts.
   
• Australian Ditmar Awards for Science Fiction Excellence - Includes professional and fan categories.
   
• The Black Dog Institute Writing Competition - The Black Dog Institute specialises in mental health and mood disorders. The competition is annual and is a chance for people to share ideas about mood disorders.
   
• Fellowship of Australian Writers - See Awards for national and international competitions. Includes short stories and poetry.
   
• HarperCollins Varuna Awards for Manuscript Development - Open to new and emerging authors.
   
• The John Marsden Award for Young Australian Writers - Run by Express Media, this competition is for writers who are under 25.
   
• Laura Literary Awards - Part of the Laura Folk Fair in South Australia.
   
• National IHL Writing Competition for Students of Journalism - Run by the Australian Red Cross for undergraduate students.
   
• New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards
   
• One Book Many Brisbanes - Brisbane City Council award for local short story writing.
   
• Queensland State Premier's Literary Awards
   
• Scarlet Stiletto Award - Short story competition for female crime fiction writers.
   
• Victorian Premier's Literary Awards - Has 12 categories including fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, journalism, theatre script and more.
   
• Young Writer's Award - A project run by the State Library of Queensland.
   
• Write a Book in a Day - Managed by the Katherine Susannah Prichard Writers Centre. A fundraising initiative for the centre and children's hospitals in each state.
   
• Write Now! - A creative writing competition for NSW and ACT students in Years 7 to 9. Part of the Sydney Writer's Festival.
  

International Prizes and Competitions Open to the Australian Public

• Yeovil Literary Prize - The prize is the main fundraiser for the Yeovil Community Arts Association, Yeovil, Somerset, UK. Categories include novel, short story and poetry.