This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2013.
| Award | Author |
|---|---|
| Christopher Brennan Award [68] | Judith Beveridge |
| Patrick White Award [69] | Louis Nowra |
| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALS Gold Medal [70] | Michelle de Kretser | Questions of Travel | Allen & Unwin |
| Colin Roderick Award [71] | Ashley Hay | The Railwayman's Wife | Allen & Unwin |
| Stephen Edgar | Eldershaw | Black Pepper | |
| Indie Book Awards Book of the Year [72] | M. L. Stedman | The Light Between Oceans | Vintage Australia |
| Nita Kibble Literary Award [73] | Annah Faulkner | The Beloved | Picador |
| Stella Prize [74] | Carrie Tiffany | Mateship with Birds | Pan Macmillan |
| Victorian Prize for Literature [75] | Not awarded | ||
| Award | Region | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Commonwealth Book Prize [76] | Pacific | Michael Sala | The Last Thread | Affirm Press |
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Davitt Award [86] | Novel | Maggie Groff | Mad Men, Bad Girls and the Guerilla Knitters Institute | Pan Macmillan |
| Young adult novel | Jennifer Walsh | The Tunnels of Tarcoola | Allen & Unwin | |
| True Crime | Pamela Burton | The Waterlow Killings | Melbourne University Press | |
| Debut novel | Maggie Groff | Mad Men, Bad Girls and the Guerilla Knitters Institute | Pan Macmillan | |
| Readers' choice | Kerry Greenwood | Tamam Shud: The Somerton Man Mystery | NewSouth Publishing | |
| Ned Kelly Award [87] | Novel | Geoffrey McGeachin | Blackwattle Creek | Penguin Books |
| First novel | Zane Lovitt | The Midnight Promise | Text Publishing | |
| True crime | Robin de Crespigny | The People Smuggler | Viking | |
| Lifetime Achievement | Not awarded | |||
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aurealis Award | SF Novel | Max Barry | Lexicon | Hachette |
| SF Short Story | Kaaron Warren | "Air, Water, and the Grove" | Pandemonimum Press (The Lowest Heaven) | |
| Fantasy Novel | Mitchell Hogan | A Crucible of Souls | Mitchell Hogan | |
| Fantasy Short Story | Jay Kristoff | "The Last Stormdancer" | Thomas Dunne Books | |
| Horror Novel | Allyse Near | Fairytales for Wilde Girls | Random House Australia | |
| Horror Short Story | Kim Wilkins | "The Year of Ancient Ghosts" | Ticonderoga Publications (The Year of Ancient Ghosts) | |
| Anthology | Liz Grzyb & Talie Helene | The Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror | Ticonderoga Publications | |
| Tehani Wessely | One Small Step, An Anthology of Discoveries | FableCroft Publishing | ||
| Collection | Joanne Anderton | The Bone Chime Song and Other Stories | FableCroft Publishing | |
| Australian Shadows Awards | Novel | Marty Young | 809 Jacob Street | Black Beacon Books |
| Long Fiction | Kaaron Warren | "The Unwanted Women of Surrey" | Queen Victoria's Book of Spells: An Anthology of Gaslamp Fantasy edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling | |
| Short Fiction | Debbie Cowens | "Caterpillars" | Baby Teeth: Bite-sized Tales of Terror edited by Dan Rabarts and Lee Murray | |
| Edited Publication | Dan Rabarts and Lee Murray, editors | Baby Teeth: Bite-sized Tales of Terror | Paper Road Press | |
| Collected Works | Jo Anderton | The Bone Chime Song and other stories | FableCroft Publishing | |
| Ditmar Award | Novel | Margo Lanagan | Sea Hearts | Allen & Unwin |
| Novella/Novelette | Kaaron Warren | "Sky" | Twelfth Planet Press (Through Splintered Walls) | |
| Short Story | Thoraiya Dyer | "The Wisdom of Ants" | Clarkesworld 75 | |
| Collected Work | Kaaron Warren, edited by Alisa Krasnostein | Through Splintered Walls | Twelfth Planet Press | |
| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature [77] | Not awarded | ||
| Anne Elder Award [88] | Elizabeth Allen | Body Language | Vagabond Press |
| Mary Gilmore Prize [89] | Not awarded | ||
| Prime Minister's Literary Awards [81] | John Kinsella | Jam Tree Gully: Poems | W. W. Norton |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards [82] | Ali Cobby Eckermann | Ruby Moonlight | Magabala Books |
| Queensland Literary Awards [83] | John Kinsella | Jam Tree Gully: Poems | W. W. Norton |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Award [75] | Not awarded | ||
| Western Australian Premier's Book Awards [84] | Not awarded | ||
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards [82] | Play | Reg Cribb | The Damned | The Yellow Agency |
| Script | Louise Fox | Dead Europe | See Saw Films; Porchlight Films | |
| Patrick White Playwrights' Award | Award | Chris Summers | King Artur | |
| Fellowship | Angela Betzien |