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 – discontinued after 2012; reinstituted in 2021 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 David Unaipon Award Deborah Cass Prize for Writing, established 2015 for writers from a migrant background Fogarty Literary Award Melbourne Prize for Literature Miles Franklin Award MUD Literary Prize (since 2018) The Nib Waverley Library Award for Literature (Currently the Mark & Evette Moran Nib Literary Award) Ned Kelly Awards 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) S. H. Prior Memorial Prize (1934–1946) South Australian Premier's Awards Stella Prize The Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelists award 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 Western Australian Premier's Book Awards Woollahra Digital Literary Award as noted in the list of electronic literature authors, critics, and works Viva la Novella 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 ACU Prize for Poetry ACT Writing and Publishing Awards 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 Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest Award Ipswich Poetry Feast Judith Wright Calanthe Award Judith Wright Prize Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry Mary Gilmore Award Newcastle Poetry Prize Noel Rowe Poetry Award 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 Plays Patrick White Playwrights' Award (2000–) Philip Parsons Young Playwrights Award (1995–2012), renamed NSW Philip Parsons Fellowship for Emerging Playwrights (2013–2018) Queensland Premier's Drama