Marginalia — Awards

Ella and the Amazing Frog Orchestra wins the Wilderness Society's Environment Award for Children's Fiction Literature

Lauren Pratt Awards Cassy Polimeni Ella and the Amazing Frog Orchestra Ella and the Frogs Hykie Breeze

Ella and the Amazing Frog Orchestra wins the Wilderness Society's Environment Award for Children's Fiction Literature

The Wilderness Society's Environment Award for Children's Literature, now in its 31st year, recognises books that inspire a love for nature-from the soil below to the canopy above.

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The Hum Hearers wins the 2025 Wesley Michel Wright Prize

Lauren Pratt Awards Shey Marque The Hum Hearers

The Hum Hearers wins the 2025 Wesley Michel Wright Prize

Shey Marque's poetry collection The Hum Hearers has won the University of Melbourne's Faculty of Arts Wesley Michel Wright Prize for an original work of verse or poetry.

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The Infant Vine named a finalist in the 2025 Queensland Literary Awards

Lauren Pratt Awards Isabella G. Mead Queensland Literary Awards The Infant Vine

The Infant Vine named a finalist in the 2025 Queensland Literary Awards

The Infant Vine, the debut poetry collection, by Isabella G. Mead has been named a finalist in the 2025 Queensland Literary Awards.

The Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection is awarded to an outstanding collection of poetry by an Australian poet.

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Emily Tsokos Purtill named winner in the WA Premier's Book Awards for her multi-generational Greek-Australian novel

Lauren Pratt Awards Emily Tsokos Purtill MATIA WA Premier's Book Awards

Emily Tsokos Purtill named winner in the WA Premier's Book Awards for her multi-generational Greek-Australian novel

Western Australian author, Emily Tsokos Purtill has won the Emerging Writer award in the 2025 WA Premier's Book Awards for her debut novel Matia.

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Borderland shortlisted in 2 categories for the 2024 Queensland Literary Awards

Lauren Pratt Awards Borderland Graham Akhurst Queensland Literary Awards

Borderland shortlisted in 2 categories for the 2024 Queensland Literary Awards

Graham Akhurst's debut novel, Borderland, has been shortlisted for the Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance and for the Young Adult Book Award.

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