 The Barbara Jefferis Award was created in 2007 in her honour.The literary prize is one of Australia's richest, the result of a $1 million bequest by John Hinde to commemorate his wife of 64 years.The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) administers the Barbara Jefferis Award, which goes to the author of "the best novel written by an Australian author that depicts women and girls in a positive way or otherwise empowers the status of women and girls in society."