Literary prizes and book awards calendar

A month by month guide to literary prizes and book awards that Christchurch City Libraries records in our Literary Prizes pages.

January

• 1st Blue Ribbons previous year
• 5th Costa Book Awards category winners previous year
• 22nd National Book Critics Circle Awards previous year shortlist
• 26th Coretta Scott King Award current year
• 26th John Newbery Medal current year
• 26th Randolph Caldecott Medal current year
• 27th Costa Book Awards Book of the year winners previous year
• 30th RUSA Notable Books for adults and Notable books for children current year
• Stonewall current year

February

• Commonwealth Writers Prize regional winners - current year
• Storyline Notable NZ Books current year
• 27th NZ Post Children's Book Awards finalists - current year

March

• 3rd Awards of the Canadian Library Association shortlist current year
• 3rd National Book Critics Circle Awards previous year
• 13th The Children's Literature Foundation of New Zealand Awards current year
  • Margaret Mahy Medal and Lecture Award current year
  • Tom Fitzgibbon Award current year
  • Gaelyn Gordon Award for a Much-Loved Book current year
  • Joy Cowley current year
• 17th David Cohen Prize (odd years) - next in 2009
• 18th Orange Prize for fiction longlist - current year
• 23rd Sir Julius Vogel Awards - current year
• 31st Bram Stoker Awards previous year

April

• 2nd shortlist International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award current year
• 8th Griffin poetry shortlist current year
• 10th Royal Society Prizes for Science Books - Junior Prize shortlist - current year (not offered 2010)
• 15th Orange shortlist for fiction - current year
• 19th Young Reader's Choice Award (US and Canada) current year
• 20th Pulitzer current year
• 21st Orange shortlist for new writers - current year
• 24-25th Nebula Awards for Science Fiction previous year except Grandmaster
• 30th Edgar Allan Poe current year

May

• 5th BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction shortlist - current year
• 9th PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction current year
• 11th Crime Writers’ Association Awards current year - Diamond Dagger
• 11th NZ Post Children's Book Awards - current year
• 11th PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction current year
• 22nd Awards of the Canadian Library Association current year
• 20-27th overall winner Commonwealth Writers Prize - current year
• 25th James Tait Black Memorial Prize shortlist previous year
• 27th Man Booker International Prize
• 29th LIANZA Awards finalists
• 31st Lambda literary awards previous year

June

• 2nd Boston Globe-Horn current year
• 3rd Orange current year
• 4th Griffin poetry current year
• 6th Children’s Laureate every second year - next 2011
• 12th International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award current year
• 13th CLPE Poetry Award current year
• 19th Betty Trask Awards current year
• 22nd New Zealand Post Book Awards finalists - current year
• 25th Carnegie Medal current year
• 25th Kate Greenaway Medal current year
• 30th BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction current year

July

• 15th CWA current year (Non fiction dagger is now a biennial award and will next be presented in 2008 Prize: TBA)
• 26th New Poet Laureateship to be announced on July 26, Montana Poetry Day
• 27th New Zealand Post Book Awards finalists - current year
• 30th Man Booker Prize longlist - current year
• end July Pikihuia shortlist current year

August

• 10th LIANZA Awards announced at LIANZA Conference
• 15th Royal Society Prizes for Science Books current year
• 19th Children’s Book Council Book of Australia Awards current year
• 21st James Tait Black Memorial Prize previous year
• 25th Guardian First book longlist - current year
• 29th Nielsen Book Data Bookseller current year

September

• 1st Hugo Awards for Science Fiction current year
• 8th Man Booker Prize shortlist - current year
• 17th FT Goldman Sachs shortlist - current year
• 18th Prime Minister’s awards for literary achievement (current year)
• 22th Dylan Thomas Prize shortlist (biennial - 2008)
• 25th Royal Society Prizes for Science Books shortlist - current year
• 30th Guardian Children's Fiction Award current year
• Pikihuia current year

October

• Nobel Prize for Literature
• 6th Man Booker Prize longlist - current year
• 10th Betty Gilderdale Current year
• 12th shortlist National book awards current year
• 13th BNZ Katherine Mansfield
• 17th Anthony Awards current year
• 24th John Llewellyn Rhys prize shortlist previous year
• 27th Dylan Thomas Prize (biennial - 2008)
• end of Oct Crime Writers’ Association Awards CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger, the Gold Dagger, Steel Dagger, will be announced on Wednesday, 21st October, 2009
• 29th FT Goldman Sachs current year
• CWA current year

November

• The next Landfall Essay Competition has been announced. Entries for the seventh Landfall Essay Competition will be accepted from 1 May 2009. The closing date for receipt of entries is 5 pm, Friday 31 July 2009. The winning entry/ies will be published in the November 2009 issue.
• 3rd Guardian First book shortlist - current year
• 8th Prix Goncourt
• 7th International Impac (shortlist for next year)
• 18th National Book Awards current year
• 21st Costa Book Awards shortlists - Previous year
  Shortlists announced in all five categories (First Novel, Novel, Biography, Poetry, Children’s Book)
• 28th Prime Ministers Awards
• 29th John Llewellyn Rhys prize previous year

December

• 5th Guardian First book current year
• James Tait Black Memorial Prize previous year

Note

Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize is currently being restructured (September 14 2008)

Prize in Modern Letters not offered in 2010