Historical Novel Society Australasia

The Historical Novel Society Australasia (HNSA) is the third arm of the international Historical Novel Society, and is recognised as the home of the historical fiction genre in Australasia. The Society promotes the writing, reading and publication of historical fiction, especially in Australia and New Zealand, through our History Unbound Historical Novel Festival. 

HNSA, in partnership with our generous sponsor, ARA Group, introduced the ARA Historical Novel Prize in 2020, to give historical novelists a chance to be recognised in a class of their own. The prize is the richest individual literary prize in ANZ with a prize purse of $150,000 prize money across the Adult and Children & Young Adult categories..