Two Aitken Alexander authors on the Dylan Thomas Prize Shortlist

We are delighted that two Aitken Alexander authors are on the Dylan Thomas Prize shortlist. Ayobami Adebayo has been shortlisted for her sophomore novel A Spell of Good Things, and Mary Jean Chan for their poetry collection Bright Fear. A huge congratulations to both authors! You can read more about the prize here.

LIZ BERRY IS THE OVERALL WINNER OF THE WRITERS PRIZE 2024

Liz Berry’s “spellbinding” novel in verse, THE HOME CHILD, was both the overall winner and poetry category winner of the 2024 Writer’s Prize (previously the Rathbone’s Folio Prize). The Writer’s Prize is unique in that there are no publisher submissions – all titles are nominated and judged by the Folio academy. The prize claims to […]

The Anniversary longlisted for the Stella Prize

We are delighted that The Anniversary by Stephanie Bishop has been longlisted for the Stella Prize 2024, celebrating Australian women’s writing and awarded annually to one outstanding book deemed to be original, excellent, and engaging. The judges praised The Anniversary saying: “Here is genre-fiction at its very best. Stephanie Bishop’s third novel is – unabashedly […]