Category Archives: Prizes

2025 AUHE Prize for Literary Scholarship: Shortlist and Winner

We are pleased to announce the winner of the 2025 AUHE Prize for Literary Scholarship (edited collections and critical editions): Dashiell Moore and Philip Morrissey (editors), Lionel Fogarty in Poetry and Politics (Palgrave, 2025). Congratulations! The shortlisted volumes are the following: To read the Judges’ comments on the works, please click here.

Call for Nominations for the 2025 AUHE Prize for Literary Scholarship

The Australian Universities Heads of English (AUHE) is calling for nominations for the 2025 AUHE Prize for Literary Scholarship, which will be awarded to the best book of literary scholarship published by an Australian-based author in the last twelve months. Works eligible for the prize in 2025 include edited collections, reference works, born-digital works equivalentContinue reading “Call for Nominations for the 2025 AUHE Prize for Literary Scholarship”

Update: AUHE Prize for Literary Scholarship

From 2025 the Prize is moving to a biennial structure, alternating between a prize for single-author or co-written monographs in one year, and a prize for all other types of books the following. In 2025, the Prize will be awarded to the latter category, i.e. edited collections, reference works, born-digital works equivalent to printed books,Continue reading “Update: AUHE Prize for Literary Scholarship”

AUHE Prize for Literary Scholarship 2024

AUHE is pleased to announce that the winner of the AUHE Prize for Literary Scholarship 2024 is Claire Knowles, Della Cruscan Poetry, Women and the Fashionable Newspaper (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023). Congratulations! AUHE also congratulates Eric Parisot and Emmett Stinson on being shortlisted for the Prize.Please find here the Judges’ Report.

Shortlist: AUHE Prize for Literary Scholarship 2024

We are also pleased to publish the shortlist for the AUHE Prize for Literary Scholarship 2024 (given in alphabetical order): Knowles, Claire. Della Cruscan Poetry, Women and the Fashionable Newspaper (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) Parisot, Eric. Jane Austen and Vampires: Love, Sex and Immortality in the New Millennium (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024) Stinson, Emmett. Murnane (The Miegunyah Press/Melbourne University Publishing, 2023)

Judges’ Report: 2023 Voss Literary Prize

It is equally a pleasure to announce the Winner of the Voss Literary Prize, thanks to judges Elaine Lindsay (chair), Jumana Bayeh, Christian Bök, Suzie Gibson, and Ann Vickery. (From the Judges’ Report – please download and read the full version here) From a field of 42 novels, the winner of the 2023 Voss LiteraryContinue reading “Judges’ Report: 2023 Voss Literary Prize”

AUHE Prize for Literary Scholarship 2023: Announcement of Shortlist and Winner

It is a pleasure to announce the Shortlist and Winner of the 2023 AUHE Prize for Literary Scholarship: (from the Judges’ Report)Judging Panel: Prof. Emerita Lyn McCredden (chair), Prof. Denise Varney, and Dr Lorraine Sim.There were 13 submissions for the 2023 AUHE Prize for Literary Scholarship, in whatthe judges saw as a robust field. WithinContinue reading “AUHE Prize for Literary Scholarship 2023: Announcement of Shortlist and Winner”