The Barbara Ramsden Award was administered by Fellowship of Australian Writers and awarded annually to an author and editor in recognition of the efforts of both parties to produce a quality fiction or non-fiction book. The winners receive a memorial plaque. It was established in 1971 and was awarded annually until 1992. It was reestablished in 2006 with sponsorship from Society of Editors (Victoria) Inc.^[1] The award was named after Australian editor Barbara Ramsden (1903–1971).^[2] It was cancelled in 2016.^[3]

Award winners

1971

• Michael Cannon (author) and Sue Ebury (editor) for Who's Master? Who's Man? (Nelson)

1972

• J. A. La Nauze (author) and Janet Mackenzie (editor) for The Making of the Australian Constitution (Melbourne University Press)

1973

• C. M. H. Clark (author) and Carol Bram (editor) for A History of Australia, Volume 3, (Melbourne University Press)
• Dorothy Green (author) and Shirley Purchase (editor) for Ulysses Bound : Henry Handel Richardson and Her Fiction (Australian National University Press^[3]

1974 (joint winners)

• David Foster (author) and Lee White (editor) for The Pure Land (Macmillan)^[4]
• John Levi and G. F. J. Bergman (authors) and Michael Page (editor) for Australian Genesis: Jewish Convicts and Settlers, 1788–1850 (Rigby)^[4]
• Ronald McKie (author) and Robert Roseman (editor) for The Mango Tree (William Collins)^[4]

1975 (joint winners)

• Geoffrey Blainey (author) and Lee White (editor) for Triumph of the Nomads (Macmillan)
• Thomas Keneally (author) and Philip Ziegler (editor) for Gossip from the Forest (Collins)
• Mary Rose Liverani (author) and Sue Ebury (editor) for The Winter Sparrows (Thomas Nelson)

1977

• Harry Gordon (author) and Jennifer Cunningham (editor) for An Eyewitness History of Australia (Rigby)^[5]

1978

• Alexander Turnbull Yarwood (author) and Carol Bram (editor) for Samuel Marsden: The Great Survivor (Melbourne University Press)^[6]

1979

• Manning Clark for A History of Australia, Volume IV (Melbourne University Press)

1980

• Oskar Spate (author) and Patricia Croft (editor) for The Spanish Lake, (Australian National University Press)^[7]

1981

• A. W. Martin (author) and Wendy Sutherland (editor) for Henry Parkes: A Biography (Melbourne University Press)^[8]

1982

• Gavin Souter (author) and Wendy Sutherland (editor) for Company of Heralds: A century and a half of Australian publishing by John Fairfax Limited and its predecessors, 1831–1981 (Melbourne University Press)

1983

• Rodney Hall (author) and Sally Moss (editor) for Just Relations (Penguin Australia)^[9]

1984

• Lloyd Robson for A History of Tasmania, Volume I (Oxford University Press)^[10]

1985 (joint winners)

• Peter Carey (author) and Craig Munro (editor) for Illywhacker (University of Queensland Press)^[3]
• R. G. Geering (editor) for Ocean of Story : The Uncollected Stories of Christina Stead (Viking)^[3]

1986

• Elizabeth Jolley for The Well (Viking)^[3]

1987

• Jessica Anderson (author), Susan Hawthorne and Jackie Yowell (editors) for Stories from the Warm Zone and Sydney Stories (Penguin)^[11]

1988

• Mark Henshaw (author), Margit Meinhold and Jackie Yowell (editors) for Out of the Line of Fire (Text Publishing)^[12]

1989

• Amy Witting for I for Isobel (Penguin)^[3]

1990

• Gerald Murnane for Velvet Waters (McPhee Gribble)^[3]

1991

• Les Murray for Collected Poems (Farrar Straus and Giroux)^[3]

1992 (joint winners)

• Alex Miller for The Ancestor Game (Penguin Australia)^[13]
• Gail Jones for The House of Breathing (Fremantle Press)^[3]

2007

• Donald Horne, Myfanwy Horne (authors) and Meredith Rose (editor) for Dying : A Memoir (Penguin)^[3]

2008

• Kim Kane (author) and Elise Jones (editor) for Pip : The Story of Olive (Allen and Unwin)^[3]

2009

• Alasdair McGregor (author) and Nicola Young (editor) for Grand Obsessions : The Life and Work of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin (Lantern)^[3]

2010

• Kristel Thornell (author) and Clara Finlay (editor) for Night Street (Allen and Unwin)^[3]

2011

• Jennifer Gall (editor) for In Bligh's Hand : Surviving the Mutiny on the Bounty (National Library of Australia)^[3]

2012

• Neil Grant (author) and Jodie Webster (editor) for The Ink Bridge (Allen and Unwin)^[3]

2013

• Felicity Volk (author) and Emma Rafferty (editor) for Lightning (Pan Macmillan)^[3]

2014

• Jenny Hocking (author) and Susan Keogh (editor) for Gough Whitlam : His Time, Volume 2 (Melbourne University Publishing)^[3]

2015

• Craig Munro (author) and Julia Carlomagno (editor) for Under Cover : Adventures in the Art of Editing (Scribe)^[3]