The Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature

The Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature description

The Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature are presented every two years during Adelaide Writers’ Week.

Introduced in 1986 by the Government of South Australia, the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature celebrate South Australia’s writing culture by offering national and state-based literary prizes, as well as fellowships for South Australian writers.

Managed by the State Library of South Australia, the awards provide an opportunity to highlight the importance of our unique South Australian writers, and contribute to and support community engagement with literature.

Be the first to learn the winners of South Australia’s richest literary awards at this special event celebrating the country’s finest writers. Winners across the categories of Fiction, Non-fiction, Children’s and Young Adult Literature, as well as Poetry and the Jill Blewett Playwright’s Award, will be announced and speak on the day.