Congratulations to the winners of the Kibble and Dobbie Literary Awards 2015!

Ellen van Neerven has received the $5,000 Dobbie Literary Award (for a first-time author) for her short-story collection, Heat and Light. Voted by our staff as one of the Best Fiction books of 2014, you can read our review here.

Joan London has received the $30,000 Kibble Literary Award (for an established author) for her novel, The Golden Age. You can read our review here.

The Kibble and Dobbie Literary Awards are open to Australian women writers who have published a book of fiction or non-fiction classifiable as ‘life writing’. Find the full 2015 shortlist here, or find out about the Kibble and Dobbie awards here.