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Six books have been shortlisted for the 2022 Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award, one of Australia’s oldest literary awards. Read more.

15 books have been longlisted for the 2022 Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award, including short story collections, YA fiction, crime fiction and poetry. Read more.

The six successful applicants for the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies’ (FALS) writing residency have been announced as Claire Corbett, Stacy Gougoulis, Eliza Henry-Jones, Jock Serong, Maria Takolander and Jessica White. Read more.

Sophie Laguna.

2021 Colin Roderick Literary Award recipient, Sofie Laguna. PICTURE: Rochelle Van Der Merwe

The enthralling coming-of-age story of a boy living in rural Victoria has won this year’s Colin Roderick Literary Award.

The Award, administered by the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies based at James Cook University’s Bebegu Yumba campus in Townsville, has gone to Sofie Laguna’s novel Infinite Splendours.

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The winner of the Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award for 2022 has been announced and it is Emily Bitto for her novel Wild Abandon, published by Allen & Unwin.

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