The Readings New Australian Fiction Prize guidelines
Previous winners of The Readings New Australian Fiction Prize include Ceridwen Dovey (2014), Stephanie Bishop (2015), Zoë Morrison (2016), Sam Carmody (2017), Jennifer Down (2018), Alice Robinson (2019), Elizabeth Tan (2020), Andrew Pippos (2021), and Jessica Au (2022).
The judges for the 2023 prize are Angie Tsimaras (Readings Doncaster), Nicki Levy (Readings Carlton), Rosalind McClintock (Readings Marketing) and Ruth McHugh-Dillon (Readings Emporium). The final selection panel will include Readings Managing Director, Mark Rubbo.
The Readings New Australian Fiction Prize for 2023 is closed. Entries are now open for 2024.
Eligibility guidelines for entering a book into The Readings New Australian Fiction Prize:
- The author must be an Australian citizen or hold permanent residency at the time of entry
- The book must be the author’s first or second published work of fiction in the chosen category
- Eligible books must have been first published between June 2023 and May 2024. Further to this, titles published between June 2023 and November 2023 must be submitted for consideration by no later than 30 November 2023, and titles published between December 2023 and May 2024 must be submitted for consideration no later than 31 May 2024. These constraints will ensure our judges have adequate time to fairly evaluate each work.
- The book must be a full-length novel
- The work must be published or distributed in Australia by an Australian publisher or the Australian publishing wing of an international publisher as recognised by Readings
- Entries must be published in English
- Authors must be living at the date of publication
- The publisher of the work must be willing to provide 4 reading copies for each title they nominate and more on request, should the book be shortlisted
Ineligible for entry into The Readings New Australian Fiction Prize:
- Works classified or marketed as genre fiction (eg. crime), memoir, short story collections, graphic novels
- Books published only in e-book form
- Self-published works
- Books published by authors who are employed by Readings during the judging period for each year
- Authors who have previously won The Readings Prize
Enquiries
If you are a publisher or an author with an eligible book you’d like to enter, please contact Angela Crocombe.
