For the 2018 CHASS Australia Prize for a Book, the shortlisted titles are Bernadette Brennan, A Writing Life: Helen Garner and Her Work (Text Publishing), Judith Brett, The Enigmatic Mr Deakin (Text Publishing) and Kate Cole-Adams, Anaesthesia: The Gift of Oblivion and the Mystery of Consciousness (Text Publishing).

For the 2018 CHASS Australia Prize for Distinctive Work, the finalists are Defiant Lives (Sarah Barton and Liz Burke), International Polychoral Music Research, Creation and Recording Project (Jonathan David Little) and The Harmonic Oscillator Project (The Cad Factory).

For the 2018 CHASS Australia Prize for a Future Leader, the finalists are Billy Griffiths, Olga Oleinikova and Pichamon Yeophantong.

For the 2018 CHASS Australia Prize for a Student, the finalists are Rachel Franks (The University of Sydney), Michele Jarldorn (Flinders University) and Zhenjie Yuan (The University of Melbourne).

The winners will be announced at the 2018 CHASS Australia Prizes Dinner on 29 October in Melbourne.