External Prizes

Dinny O’Hearn Fellowships

The Dinny O'Hearn Fellowship is a triennial award offered to young Australian writers to help support a creative project or work in progress.

Ernest Scott Prize

This prize is awarded annually to the book judged to be the most distinguished contribution to the history of Australia or New Zealand or to the history of colonisation.

This Award advances the recognition of Indigenous creative artists and follows a five-year cycle with a different area of the arts supported each year — creative prose, drama, the visual arts, plays and poetry.

Lockie Fellowships

The Lockie Fellowship offers research support for writers undertaking an original creative or critical project which advances the study of literature within Australia.

Peter Blazey Fellowship

This Fellowship is awarded annually to writers in the non-fiction fields of biography, autobiography and life writing to further a work in progress.

Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize

The Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize is a biennial award that supports an Australian poet to visit Ireland or Northern Ireland, or an Irish poet to visit Australia.

Wesley Michel Wright Prize

This prize is awarded for an original work of verse or poetry.