Literary Prizes & Book Awards

• Children's Literary Prizes
• New Zealand Prizes
  • Writing Prizes (essays and unpublished works)
• International Prizes including
  • Authors
  • Fiction
  • Mystery, Horror, Crime, Fantasy and Science Fiction
  • Lists
  • New Writers
  • Non-fiction
  • Poetry

Literary prize calendar - lists when prizes are awarded

New Zealand

• New Zealand Post Book Awards (before 2010, the awards were known as the Montana New Zealand Book Awards)
• Nielsen BookData New Zealand Booksellers' Choice Award
• Pikihuia Awards for Māori writers
• Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement
• Prize in Modern Letters
• Sir Julius Vogel awards (science fiction, fantasy and horror)
• Wattie Book Awards

Writing Prizes

These are awards for essays and/or unpublished works.

• Bank of New Zealand Katherine Mansfield Awards
• Landfall Essay Competition
• Pikihuia Awards for Māori writers
• Re-Draft (open to any teenage writer in New Zealand)

International

Authors

Prizes awarded for the author's body of work

• David Cohen Prize (body of work)
• Man Booker International Prize
• Nobel Prize in Literature

Fiction

• Commonwealth Writers Prize
• Costa Book Awards (formerly the Whitbread)
• Dylan Thomas Prize
• International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
• James Tait Black Memorial Prize
• Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize
• Lambda Literary Awards
• John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
• Man Booker Prize
• National Book Awards (USA)
• National Book Critics Circle Awards
• Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction
• PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction
• Prix Goncourt (French prose)
• Pulitzer Prizes
• Stonewall Book Awards (formerly known as the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Book Awards)

Genre fiction - Mystery, Horror, Crime, Fantasy and Science Fiction

• Anthony Awards (mystery)
• Bram Stoker Awards (horror)
• Crime Writers’ Association Awards
• Edgar Allan Poe Awards (mystery)
• Hugo Awards for Science Fiction
• Mythopoeic Awards for fantastic and mythic literature
• Nebula Awards for Science Fiction & Fantasy
• Sir Julius Vogel awards (science fiction, fantasy and horror by New Zealanders)
• World Fantasy Awards

Lists

• Granta Best of Young British Novelists 1993 and 2003
• Notable Books

New Writers

• Betty Trask Awards
• Commonwealth Writers Prize (includes Best First Book)
• The Costa First Novel Award
• The CWA New Blood Dagger (mystery/crime)
• Dylan Thomas Prize (restricted to authors under 30)
• Guardian First Book Award (was Guardian Fiction Award)
• John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (awards the best work of literature by a writer under 35)
• Orange Broadband Award for New Writers

Non-fiction

• BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction
• The British Academy Book Prize (humanities/social sciences)
• The Costa Biography Award
• The Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award
• International Einhard Prize for Biography
• James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Biography
• John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (awards the best work of literature by a writer under 35)
• The Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize - Non-Fiction
• Mythopoeic Awards for fantastic and mythic scholarship
• National Book Awards - Non-Fiction
• National Book Critics Circle Award
• Pulitzer Prizes
• Royal Society Prizes for Science Books (formerly Aventis)
• Stonewall Book Awards (formerly known as the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Book Awards)

Poetry

• The Costa Poetry Award
• Dylan Thomas Prize
• Griffin Poetry Prize
• National Book Awards - Poetry
• National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry
• Pulitzer Prize: Poetry