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The YABBA Book awards have been announced.

'Debut books in the crime and mystery genre scooped all six awards in Sisters in Crime’s 22nd Davitt Awards on 27 August – Charlotte McConaghy’s Once there Were Wolves; Leanne Hall’s The Gaps; Nicki Greenberg’s The Detective’s Guide to Ocean Travel; Jacqueline Bublitz’s Before You Knew My Name (two awards); and Kate Holden’s, The Winter Road.'

The 2022 NSW Premier’s History Awards have been announced. Of special interest:

Young People’s History Prize
The Dunggiirr Brothers and the Caring Song of the Whale by Aunty Shaa Smith, Neeyan Smith, Uncle Bud Marshall, with Yandaarra including Sarah Wright, Lara Daley and Paul Hodge (Allen & Unwin).

The winners of the CBCA Book of the Year 2022 have been announced.

The Speech Pathology Book of the Year Awards shortlists 2022 have been announced.

The winners of the ABIA awards have been announced. Of particular interest:

Book of the year for older children: The prison healer by Lynette Noni

Book of the year for younger children:  The first scientists by Corey Tutt

Picture book of the year: Somebody's land by Adam Goodes

The Carnegie Greenaway Awards have been announced:

The Yoto Carnegie Medal is awarded to Katya Balen for her novel October, October.

Yoto Kate Greenaway Medal goes to Long way down by Jason Reynolds.

The winners of the Aurealis Awards 2021 have been announced. Of special interest:

BEST CHILDREN’S FICTION

Dragon Skin, Karen Foxlee (Allen & Unwin)

BEST GRAPHIC NOVEL / ILLUSTRATED WORK

The Curiosities, Zana Fraillon & Phil Lesnie (illustrator) (Hachette Australia) 

BEST YOUNG ADULT NOVEL

Waking Romeo, Kathryn Barker (Allen & Unwin) 

The Nebula Awards have been announced. Of special interest:

Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction

Winner 

A Snake Falls to Earth, Darcie Little Badger (Levine Querido)

Shortlisted

Victories Greater Than Death, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor Teen; Titan)

Thornwood, Leah Cypess (Delacorte)

Redemptor, Jordan Ifueko (Amulet; Hot Key)

Root Magic, Eden Royce (Walden Pond)

Iron Widow, Xiran Jay Zhao (Penguin Teen; Rock the Boat)

The  NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2022 have been announced. Of particular interest:

Book of the Year & Multicultural NSW Award
Still Alive: Notes from Australia’s Immigration Detention System by Safdar Ahmed (Twelve Panels Press)

Christina Stead Prize for Fiction
Dark as Last Night by Tony Birch (University of Queensland Press)

Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children’s Literature
My Brother Ben by Peter Carnavas (University of Queensland Press)

Ethel Turner Prize for Young People’s Literature
The Gaps by Leanne Hall (Text Publishing)

Indigenous Writers’ Prize
Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray: River of Dreams by Anita Heiss (Simon & Schuster Australia)

The shortlists for the UKLA Book Awards have been announced.

The finalists for the 2022 Hugo Awards, the Astounding Award for Best New Writer, and the Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book have been announced. O particular interest:

Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book (not a Hugo)
Chaos on CatNet by Naomi Kritzer (Tor Teen)
Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao (Penguin Teen / Rock the Boat)
The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik (Del Rey Books)
Redemptor by Jordan Ifueko (Amulet Books / Hot Key Books)
A Snake Falls to Earth by Darcie Little Badger (Levine Querido)
Victories Greater Than Death by Charlie Jane Anders (Tor Teen / Titan)

The NSW Premier’s Literary Awards shortlists 2022 have been announced. 

The list for the Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children's Literature is here.

The list for the Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature is here.

The shortlists for the 2022 Aurealis Awards have been announced.

The Yoto Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Awards shortlists have been announced.

The Yoto Carnegie Award shortlist is here.

The Yoto Kate Greenaway Award shortlist is here.