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Literary awards

• List of Australian literary awards – each award needs to be checked and updated, as necessary, with recent winners and shortlists and references

Novelists

Former novelists

• Gavin Casey (1907–1964) - ADB
• Dorothy M. Catts (1896–1961) - ADB
• Peter Corris (1942–2018) - improve
• Alice Nannup (1911-1995) - author of When the Pelican Laughed
• Rebecca Phillips (1872–1942) - ADB

Contemporary novelists

• Wayne Ashton (born 1959)
• Inez Baranay (born 1950)
• Mark Henshaw (born 1951)
• Mudrooroo (Colin Johnson) - improve
• Leonie Norrington
• Boori Monty Pryor - improve
• Georgia Savage
• Jennifer Scoullar
• Tracy Sorensen - stub
• Renate Yates (Renate Raubitschek)

Poets

Former poets

• Niall Brennan (1918-2005)
• Charles Buckmaster (1950-1972) (stub only)
• Robert Clark (poet) (1911-2004)
• Laurence Collinson (1925-1986) (stub only)
• Alexander Craig (poet) (1923-1996)
• Max Dunn (1895-1963) (stub only)
• Anne Elder (1918-1976) - improve references
• W. S. Fairbridge (1918-1950)
• Edwin Gerard (1891-1965)
• J. W. Gordon (Jim Grahame) (1874-1949)
• Paul Grano (1894-1975) (stub only)
• H. M. Green (1881-1962) (stub only)
• Edward Harrington (1895-1966) (stub only)
• Martin Harrison (poet) (1949-2014) - needs refs
• William Hart-Smith (1911-1990) (stub only) - unreferenced
• Peter Hopegood (1891-1967)
• Flexmore Hudson (1913-1988)
• Wendy Jenkins (poet) (1952–2022)
• J. A. R. McKellar (1904-1932)
• Harley Matthews (1889-1968)
• Ernest G. Moll (1900-1997)
• R. D. Murphy (born 1910)
• James Picot (1906-1944)
• J. R. Rowland (1925-1996)
• Winifred Maitland Shaw (1906-1977)
• Ken Taylor (poet) (1930-2014)
• Charles R. Thatcher (1831-1878) (stub only)
• Brian Vrepont (1882-1955) (stub only)

Contemporary poets

• Timoshenko Aslanides (born 1943) - improve references
• Eric Beach (born 1947) (stub only)
• Anthony J. Bennett (born 1950)
• Peter Boyle (poet) (born 1951) (stub only)
• Adrian Caesar (born 1955)
• Kieran Carroll (born 1968)
• Lucy Dougan (born 1966) (stub only)
• Chris Edwards (poet) (born 1955)
• Diane Fahey (born 1945) - imp refs
• Michael Farrell (poet) (born 1965) (stub only)
• Jamie Grant (born 1949)
• Philip Hammial (born 1937) - improve refs and format
• Margaret Irvin (born 1916)
• Evan Jones (Australian poet) (born 1931) (stub only)
• S. K. Kelen (born 1956) - improve refs
• Frederick Kesner (poet) (born 1967)
• Lee Knowles (born 1941)
• Anthony Lawrence (born 1957) - improve refs
• Cassie Lewis (poet) (born 1974)
• Ruark Lewis (born 1960)
• Myron Lysenko (born 1952)
• Rhyll McMaster (born 1947) - improve refs
• Philip Mead (poet) (born 1953)
• Peter Minter (born 1967)
• Mark O'Connor (poet) (born 1945) - improve refs
• Marcella Polain (born 1958) - improve refs
• Nigel Roberts (poet) (born 1941)
• Michael Sharkey (born 1946) - improve refs and format
• Alex Skovron (born 1948)

Other writers, critics, editors etc.

To create

• Jack Beasley (critic) (born 1921), Red Letter Days
• Mark O'Flynn, playwright
• Bill Wannan (1915-2003)

Stubs

• Richard Beynon (1927-1999)
• Peter Craven (literary critic)
• Louis Esson (1879-1943), playwright

Books and journals

Books

• A House is Built - stub
• A Secret Country (John Pilger)
• Extinctions (novel) - redirected to Josephine Wilson
• I am what I am (book) (John Marsden)
• How to Build a Time Machine - stub, improve
• On Dearborn Street (Miles Franklin)
• The Accidental Universe (Paul Davies)
• The Australian Legend - redirected to Russel Ward
• The Australian Ugliness - needs references
• The Last Three Minutes (Paul Davies)
• The Misery of Beauty (Louis Nowra)
• The Night Country (Bryce Courtney)
• The Roaring Nineties (Katharine Susannah Prichard)
• The Twelfth of Never (novel) (Louis Nowra)
• The Unchosen Land (Robert Ingpen)
• The Watcher on the Cast Iron Balcony (Hal Porter)
• Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow (novel) (M. Barnard Eldershaw)
• Warne's World (Louis Nowra)
• When the Pelican Laughed (Alice Nannup)

Journals

• Hecate's Australian Women's Book Review
• Famous Reporter
• Going Down Swinging
• HEAT (magazine) - stub, but needs improvement
• Island (journal)

Science Fiction & Fantasy (includes Speculative fiction, Horror & Gothic)

Authors

• David Conyers - unreferenced

Novels & Misc

• Australian Horror Writers Association - improve references

Novel Stubs

• Of a Boy - unreferenced
• Oscar and Lucinda - unreferenced
• Shallows

• Remembering Babylon - unreferenced
• Our Sunshine - unreferenced
• The Lambing Flat - unreferenced
• The Rosie Result

Publishers

• Black Dog Books - stub
• Giramondo Publishing - improve refs
• Hale & Iremonger
• Makar Press
• Nelson Books
• Scribe - stub
• Transit Lounge
• University of Queensland Press - improve

Other topics

• Austral Society - stub
• Australian Bush Poetry- improve
• Ipswich Poetry Feast - tagged refimprove