Giramondo Publishing, Fitzcarraldo Editions and New Directions are pleased to announce the shortlist for The Novel Prize, a new biennial award for a book-length work of literary fiction written in English by published and unpublished writers around the world. The shortlist was selected from close to 1500 submissions worldwide.

Leopold Adi Surya on the process of designing the cover for Sergius Seeks Bacchus by Norman Erikson Pasaribu.

Congratulations to Rawah Arja, whose debut novel The F Team has been shortlisted for the 2021 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards in the Writing for Young Adults category.

We are delighted that Lisa Gorton’s Empirical and Π.O.’s Heide have both been shortlisted for the 2020 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Poetry.

We are thrilled to announce that PiO has won Australia’s most prestigious poetry prize, the 2020 Judith Wright Calanthe Award, for his epic work, Heide.

Imagine living in a world where mirrors didn’t exist. You never saw yourself and you never knew what you looked like. That was my experience throughout high school as well as university – not only was a Muslim woman rare to find in print, people like me were demonised and our stories hijacked.

We are delighted to share the news that The House of Youssef by Yumna Kassab has been shortlisted for the 2020 Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction.

We are pleased to announce that Yumna Kassab has been shortlisted for the Steele Rudd Award for her short story collection, The House of Youssef, and Pi.O has been shortlisted for the Judith Wright Calanthe award for his epic poetry collection, Heide.

We are thrilled that Lisa Gorton, Joanne Burns, Fiona Wright and Yumna Kassab have been shortlisted in the 2020 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards.

Towards the End by Ali Alizadeh was launched by Philip Mead, at the Paperback Bookshop in Melbourne on 20 February, 2020.

Fitzcarraldo Editions, Giramondo Publishing and New Directions are pleased to announce The Novel Prize, a new biennial award for a book-length work of literary fiction written in English by published and unpublished writers around the world.

The House of Youssef by Yumna Kassab has been longlisted for the 2020 Stella Prize, an award that celebrates women’s writing.

The 2020 Victorian Premier‘s Literary Awards shortlists have been announced, and we are delighted that The House of Youssef by Yumna Kassab has been selected for Fiction.

Judith Beveridge was awarded the 2019 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Poetry in Canberra on 23 October, for Sun Music: New and Selected Poems.

Three Giramondo titles have been shortlisted in the 2019 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards.

Ali Cobby Eckermann, Alexis Wright, Fiona Wright, Eunice Andrada, Fiona McGregor and international guest Norman Erikson Pasaribu will feature at the Melbourne Writers Festival.