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09/09/2026

✨ Meet the Barbara Hanrahan Fellowship shortlist!

Congratulations to:

Olivia De Zilva - Paradise Court
Aimee Knight - Heart of Felt
Carrie Miller - King Neptune

These three South Australian writers are shortlisted for the $15,000 Barbara Hanrahan Fellowship.

Congratulations and good luck! 🎉

SA Government bit.ly/SALiteraryAwards

09/09/2026

✨ 2026 South Australian Literary Awards | Tangkanungku Pintyanthi Fellowship

Congratulations to the two writers shortlisted for the $15,000 Tangkanungku Pintyanthi Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Fellowship:

• Dominic Guerrera - Pelican's Bill
• Jared Thomas - Uncle X-Box

The fellowship recognises and supports South Australian writers and their ongoing literary practice.

Congratulations to both shortlisted writers! 👏

SA Government CreateSA bit.ly/SALiteraryAwards

09/09/2026

✨ 2026 South Australian Literary Awards | Carclew Max Fatchen Fellowship

Congratulations to the three writers shortlisted for the $12,500 Carclew Max Fatchen Fellowship:

• Asha Bates - The Circling
• Indirani Schocroft - Limp Lilacs
• Kate Strutton - Honeycrisp

The fellowship supports emerging South Australian writers to develop their creative practice.

Congratulations to all three shortlisted writers! 👏

Carclew SA Government CreateSA bit.ly/SALiteraryAwards

09/09/2026

✨ Meet the 2026 Jill Blewett Fellowship shortlist!

Congratulations to:

Mali Harkin-Noack - Tell Me Something
Jamie Hornsby - Python
Anthony Nocera - Someone You Know
Sarah Peters - Lost Socks & Polka Dots

One of these four talented South Australian writers will receive the $15,000 fellowship.

Good luck to all our shortlisted writers! 👏

SA Government CreateSA bit.ly/SALiteraryAwards

09/09/2026

🌟 Celebrating South Australia’s next generation of writers!

Congratulations to the shortlisted writers in the 2026 Carclew Young Writers Awards.

8–12 years | $500 awards

Benjamin Brown - Mad About Elements Gold: AU
Eusoph Rizanudin Jusary - The Ngaltiga Chronicles: Frostfall
Paige Moore - One Day to Live

13–17 years | $750 awards

Lourdes Casi - Like Ribbons in Your Hair
Katharina Ge - Achilles, Come Down
Riley Stubberfield - The Rainbow in the Dark

A huge congratulations to all our young writers! Keep writing, keep imagining and keep telling your stories. 📚✨

Carclew SA Government CreateSA

09/09/2026

📖 The 2026 Wakefield Press Unpublished Manuscript Award shortlist is here!

Congratulations to:

Patrick Allington - Former Princess Gracious
Jennifer Caruso - Nala-alati Pinti Miyurna Pudni
Tom Gurn - Pugholes
Carol Lefevre - Disturbances
Lara Saunders - Wash Dirt. Burn Water

One of these five writers will receive the $15,000 award.

Congratulations to everyone shortlisted! 👏

SA Government CreateSA

09/09/2026

🖋️ The 2026 John Bray Poetry Award shortlist has been announced!

Congratulations to:

Evelyn Araluen - The Rot, UQP
Maxine Beneba Clarke - Beautiful Changelings,
Eileen Chong - We Speak of Flowers,
Paul Dawson - Lines of Desire, Puncher & Wattmann
Alan Fyfe - G-d, Sleep, and Chaos, Gazebo Books

One of these five poets will take home the $15,000 John Bray Poetry Award.

Congratulations to everyone shortlisted! 🎉

SA Government CreateSA bit.ly/SALiteraryAwards

09/09/2026

📚 The 2026 Children’s Literature Award shortlist is here!

Congratulations to the authors and illustrator behind these five shortlisted books:

Sandy Bigna - Little Bones, UQP
Julia Busuttil Nishimura and Myo Yim - Sundays Under the Lemon Tree, Scribble
Peter Carnavas - Leo and Ralph,
Deborah Frenkel and Danny Snell - The Truck Cat,
Judith Rossell - The Midwatch,

One of these wonderful works will receive the $15,000 Children’s Literature Award.

Good luck to all our shortlisted creatives! 🌟

SA Government CreateSA

bit.ly/SALiteraryAwards

09/09/2026

📚 Meet the 2026 Young Adult Fiction Award shortlist!

Congratulations to:

Olivia De Zilva – Eggshell,
Sharon Kernot – Birdy, Text Publishing
Margot McGovern - This Stays Between Us, Penguin Books Australia
Pip Smith - The Pull of the Moon, UWA Publishing

These four writers are shortlisted for the $15,000 Young Adult Fiction Award.

Congratulations to all our shortlisted writers! 👏

SA Government CreateSA bit.ly/SALiteraryAwards

09/09/2026

📚 Meet the 2026 Non-Fiction Award shortlist

Five writers are in the running for the $15,000 Non-Fiction Award:

Adele Dumont - The Pulling, Scribe Publications
Madison Griffiths - Sweet Nothings,
Natalie Harkin - Apron-Sorrow/Sovereign-Tea, Wakefield Press
John Safran – Squat, Penguin Books Australia
Micaela Sahhar - Find Me at the Jaffa Gate: An Encyclopaedia of a Palestinian Family, NewSouth Publishing

Congratulations to all five shortlisted writers! 🎉

SA Government CreateSA bit.ly/SALiteraryAwards

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