Category: Book awards

  • Awards wrap-up

    Awards wrap-up

    Journalist Hamish McDonald’s self-published book Reasonable Doubt: Spies, police and the Croatian Six was nominated for two awards in August: the Bad Sydney Crime Writers Festival’s Danger Prize (which was won by the podcast The Teacher’s Pet), and the Waverley Library’s $20,000 Nib Literary Award, which recognises the role of research in fiction and nonfiction.…

  • Self-published authors among winners of the ANZ Photobook Awards 2018

    A number of self-published titles were among the winners of the Australia and New Zealand Photobook Awards 2018, presented at a ceremony in Melbourne on 16 March. Photobook winner Second Sight (Sarah Walker & Perimeter Books) Photobook commended Huon (Noah Thompson) Student winner ROYGBIV (Kira Sampurno) Student commended Craigieburn, it’s not the same (Yask Desai) Finalists…

  • Self-publishers among Aurealis Awards finalists

    Three self-published books are among the finalists for the Aurealis Awards, presented for science fiction, fantasy and horror writing in Australia. We Ride the Storm by Devin Madson is one of six finalists in the best fantasy novel category; Deathship Jenny by Rob O’Connor is one of three finalists up for best graphic novel/illustrated work;…

  • Davis wins inaugural £1500 Selfies Award for a self-published novel

    In the UK, Jane Davis’ self-published novel Smash All the Windows has won the inaugural Selfies Award for a self-published work of fiction. Smash All the Windows explores the emotional lives of the families of victims in the wake of a disaster. It is Davis’ eighth novel. The judging panel was ‘impressed not only with the quality of…

  • All-women shortlist announced for inaugural Selfies Awards

    In the UK, BookBrunch has announced the shortlist for the inaugural Selfies Awards for a self-published novel. The new prize was unveiled in December 2018, and aims to ‘discover new talent and recognise the best self-published titles each year’. In the inaugural year, the award is for adult fiction only, but will expand to include other categories in…

  • Self-published Aussie novel longlisted for Republic of Consciousness Prize

    Brisbane author Nicholas John Turner’s debut self-published novel Hang Him When He Is Not There has been longlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize. Turner’s novel, which was sold into the UK and Ireland to Birmingham-based small press Splice in May last year, was praised by judges as ‘the novel as hall of mirrors, and it rewards you for…

  • Prizes round-up

    Two self-published titles have won awards in the 2018 Romance Writers of Australia (RWA) Romantic Book of the Year awards, known as the ‘RUBYs’. Ruining Miss Wrotham by Emily Larkin won the long romance category; and The Girl and the Ghost by Ebony McKenna, won the romantic elements category. The awards were announced on 18 August at…

  • Self-publishers among 2018 RWA ‘Ruby’ award finalists and Ngaio Marsh 2018 longlist

    Five self-published books are among the finalists for the Romance Writers of Australia (RWA) Romantic Book of the Year Award, also known as ‘the Ruby’. Ruining Miss Wrotham by Emily Larkin and The Sicilian List by Robby Dennis are finalists in the Long Romance category while K M Golland’s Plight and Anna Hackett’s Unmapped made the ‘Short Romance category. The Romantic…

  • Subbed In Chapbook Prize expands in 2018

    Sydney-based literary organisation Subbed In is expanding its Chapbook Prize—previously open to NSW residents only—to writers across Australia. Launched last year, the Subbed In Chapbook Prize aims to support emerging writers (including those who have not previously published a book) who are working in the forms of poetry, microfiction/nonfiction or ‘a blend of these mediums’.‘We…

  • 2018 Australian/Vogel Literary Award winner announced; Entries open for 2019 Award

    Emily O’Grady’s The Yellow House, a story about ‘the legacies of violence and the possibilities of redemption’, set in semi-rural Queensland, has won the 2018 Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award. The winner was chosen from a shortlist of two, which also included Melbourne writer Samantha-Ellen Bound as reported by Books+Publishing. The judging panel comprised the Australian’s literary editor Stephen…