List of New Zealand literary awards

Current literary awards in New Zealand include:

• Adam Foundation Prize in Creative Writing for the best portfolio in Victoria University of Wellington's MA in Creative Writing course
• Adam NZ Play Award
• Antarctica New Zealand Community Engagement Programme
• Anzac Bridge Fellowship
• Artists to Antarctica programme (superseded by Antarctica New Zealand Community Engagement Programme)
• Arts Foundation of New Zealand Laureate, Icon and New Generation Awards
• Auckland University Literary Fellowship
• A W Reed Award for Contribution to New Zealand Literature (in conjunction with the Montana Awards)
• Bank of New Zealand Katherine Mansfield Short Story Awards (superseded by Meridian Energy Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship)
• Bert Roth Award for Labour History
• The Betty Gilderdale Award
• Nielsen BookData New Zealand Booksellers' Choice Award
• Bruce Jesson Senior Journalism Award
• Bruce Jesson Emerging Journalism Prize
• Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship, formally the Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship
• Bruce Mason Playwriting Award
• CLNZ Writers' Award for non-fiction writers
• Creative New Zealand Berlin Writers' Residency
• Creative New Zealand Michael King Writers' Fellowship
• Dan Davin Literary Award
• Department of Conservation Artists in Residence Programme
• Elsie Locke Award for Non-Fiction
• Embassy Theatre Trust Prize for Scriptwriting
• Esther Glen Award for children's literature
• Foxton Fellowship (now called the NZSA Peter & Dianne Beatson Fellowship)
• Gaelyn Gordon Award
• Glenn Schaeffer Prize in Modern Letters
• Goodman Fielder Wattie Book Award (now defunct)
• Jack Lasenby Award for children's literature or child writers
• Joy Cowley Award for children's literature
• Kathleen Grattan Award
• Kathleen Grattan Prize for a Sequence of Poems
• Landfall Essay Competition
• LIANZA Elsie Locke Non-Fiction Award (superseded by the Elsie Locke Award for Non-Fiction)
• LIANZA Young People's Non-Fiction Award (superseded by the LIANZA Elsie Locke Non-Fiction Award)
• Lilian Ida Smith Award
• Meridian Energy Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship (a residency)
• Macmillan Brown Prize for Writers
• Margaret Mahy Medal and Lecture Award for children's literature
• Michael King Writers' Centre annual residency programme (four supported residencies)
• Maori Literature Awards
• Nestle Write Around New Zealand
• New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults
• Ngaio Marsh Award
• NZSA Janet Frame Memorial Award
• NZSA Peter & Dianne Beatson Fellowship
• NZSA Waitangi Day Literary Honours
• Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
• Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement
• Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry
• Robert Burns Fellowship (a residency)
• Randell Cottage Writers' Residency
• Robert Lord Writers Cottage Residency
• Russell Clark Award for illustrations in children's literature
• Sarah Broom Poetry Prize
• Sir Julius Vogel Award for science fiction and fantasy
• Spectrum Print Book Design Award
• Storylines Children's Literature Foundation of New Zealand Notable Books List
• Sunday Star Times Short Story Competition
• Te Kura Pounamu Award for books written in Māori
• Te Mata Estate New Zealand Poet Laureate
• Tessa Duder Award
• Tom Fitzgibbon Award for children's literature
• University of Otago College of Education / Creative New Zealand Children's Writer in Residence
• Ursula Bethell Residency in Creative Writing
• Victoria University Writers' Fellow
• Waikato University Writer-in-Residence
• Whitcoulls Travcom Travel Books of the Year