The Fryer Library congratulates UQ alumnus and Brisbane resident Kate Morton for taking out the 2013 People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year with her third novel The Secret Keeper. A mystery, set in London and shifting between past and present, it has already received high praise and topped bestseller lists across the globe.

June is the final month for entries in The Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize 2013, administered by the University of Southern Queensland. So for our June collection spotlight, biographer Stephany Steggall explores Fryer's Bruce Dawe papers...

Arthur Upfield, known as Australia's first detective novelist, was the subject of discussion at a Friends of Fryer event on May 14.

Following the announcement of the inaugural Stella Prize, which celebrates great books by Australian women writers, an all-female shortlist has been announced for the 2013 Miles Franklin Award.

The inaugural Stella Prize winner was announced last night at an event in Melbourne. Carrie Tiffany won for her second novel, Mateship with birds.

Three important lists have been released over the past week in the Australian Literary Awards season.

The 2013 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship was awarded to Stephany Steggall last night at Adelaide Writers' Week.

The inaugural Stella Prize Longlist was released today. The announcement, for the first ever longlist of the best work of literature published in 2012 by an Australian woman, even trended on twitter. The award is named after one of Australia's most important female authors, Stella Maria 'Miles' Franklin.