The ASA/HQ Commercial Fiction Prize
Deadline for entries
5pm AEST Monday 1 November
The Australian Society of Authors is delighted to be working in partnership with HQ, a division of HarperCollins, to offer the biennial ASA/HQ Commercial Fiction Prize.
The Prize honours a tradition that reaches back thousands of years: storytelling. It is seeking the best of commercial fiction: vibrant writing that entertains, enlightens, and provokes lively water-cooler conversations.
The winner will receive a publishing contract with HQ, with a $10,000 advance against royalties, and the runner-up will receive $500 and a year’s membership with the ASA.
The inaugural prize, announced in 2020, launched the careers of three debut Australian authors. The genre-bending gothic drama Sargasso by shortlisted author Kathy George published to incredible reviews in February 2021. In June 2021, the contemporary romance by shortlistee Stella Quinn, The Vet from Snowy River, debuted at #4 on the local bestseller charts. And the inaugural prize winner Sally Bothroyd with her twisty, hip, and distinctly Australian mystery, Brunswick Street Blues, publishes March 2022.