‘A tale of strength’: Veronica Gorrie wins Australia’s richest literary prize for police memoir
First Nations author collects $125,000 for Black and Blue: A Memoir of Racism and Resilience, a ‘powerful’ account of her career as a police officer
‘Uplifting’ book of sonnets by Hannah Lowe wins Costa book of the year
The Kids, based on the former teacher’s experiences, was described by chair Reeta Chakrabarti as ‘a book to fall in love with’, as Lowe receives £30,000 prize
Tales of the unexpected: the surprise boom in UK short stories
The literary form is enjoying a renaissance, with the pandemic allowing people more time to consume and produce it
Graphic short story: Cancer Sells!
Tat Effby has been named joint runner-up in the Observer/Cape/Comica graphic short story prize 2021. This is her entry
‘The outrage had been percolating…’ The winner of our graphic short story prize 2021
A funeral in Germany provides the setting for our winning story in this year’s Cape/Observer/Comica award for emerging cartoonists
Graphic short story: Andrew
A Wolfgang Crowe has been named joint runner-up in the Observer/Cape/Comica graphic short story prize 2021. This is his entry
Graphic short story: A Funeral in Freiburg
Astrid Goldsmith has been named winner in the Observer/Cape/Comica graphic short story prize 2021. This is her entry
Donna Barba Higuera wins top US children’s book award for The Last Cuentista
This year’s Newbery medal goes to story of the only girl who can remember the Earth after it is destroyed by a comet
Story inspired by near miss with Fred West wins the Portico prize
Judges of the £10,000 northern writing award said Sally J Morgan’s novel ‘vividly evokes a time when women lived in mortal fear’
‘They are literally murdering us’: poet Joelle Taylor on bringing the LGBTQ+ community together
She’s been marginalised and slapped in the street – but Taylor’s passionate and nostalgic poems about butch lesbian subculture just won the TS Eliot prize. Can they also heal the divisions over gender identity?
Joelle Taylor wins TS Eliot poetry prize for ‘blazing’ C+nto & Othered Poems
Judges praise the former UK slam champion’s ‘vivid’ collection, exploring author’s experience of being a butch lesbian
PEN prize-winning Ugandan novelist Kakwenza Rukirabashaija illegally detained and tortured
The author is being held after tweets criticising President Yoweri Museveni and his son
Nobel winner Pablo Neruda was almost denied prize because of odes to Stalin
As well as revealing the full shortlist, newly opened archives show that the 1971 judging panel were concerned the Chilean winner’s politics were ‘incompatible with the purpose of the prize’
Caleb Azumah Nelson wins Costa first novel award for Open Water
Judges praise ‘searingly intimate’ debut, while Claire Fuller wins best novel and John Preston takes biography prize
Martha Wells continues run of female Hugo award winners
Wells’s novel Network Effect takes top science fiction award, the sixth successive win for a woman in what was once an almost exclusively male honour roll