Academi Gymreig Prizes Wales Book of the Year Awards Tel: 029 2047 2266 Fax: 029 2049 2930 Email: post@academi.org Ackerley, J.R.; Prize for Autobiography Tel: 020-7713 0023 Fax: 020-7837 7838 Email: enquiries@englishpen.org Comment: English PEN website www.englishpen.org An annual prize of £1000 is given for an outstanding work of literary autobiography written in English and published during the previous year by an author of British nationality or an author who has been a long-term resident in the UK. No submissions: books are nominated by the judges only. Founded 1982. Alexander Prize Tel: 020 73877532 Fax: 020 7387 7532 Email: rhs.infb@sas.ac.uk URL: www.rhs.ac.uk/prizes Comment: Royal Historical Society, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT Contact Executive Secretary Established 1897Awarded for a published j ournal article or essay based upon original research.The article/essay must have been published during the period 1 January 2006-31 December 2007. Competitors may choose their own subject for the essay. Closing date: 31 December. PRIZE £250. ALPSP Awards andALPSP/ Charlesworth Awards Tel: 01245 260571 Fax: 01245 260935 Email: events@alpsp.org URL: www.alpsp.org Comment: ALPSP, 47 Vicarage Road, Old Moulsham, Chelmsford CM2 9BS Contact Lesley Ogg Presented in recognition of significant achieve¬ment and innovation in the field of learned and professional publishing by the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers and the Charlesworth Group. The awards are international and open to publishers, organisations and individuals. Closing date: 31 May. Details available on the Association's website. Angus Book Award Tel: 01307 461460 Fax: 01307 462590 Email: cultural.services@angus.gov.uk URL: www.angus.gov.uk/bookaward Comment: Angus Council Cultural Services, County Buildings, Forfar DD8 3WF. Contact Moyra Hood, Educational Resources Librarian Established 1995. Designed to try to help teenagers develop an interest in and enthusiasm for reading. Eligible books are read and voted on by third-year schoolchildren in all eight Angus secondary schools. PRIZE £500 cheque, plus trophy in the form of a replica Pictish stone. Arthur C. Clarke Award URL: www.clarkeaward.com Comment: An annual award of £2007 plus engraved bookend is given for the best science fiction novel with first UK publication during the previous calendar year. Titles are submitted by publishers. Founded 1985. Arts Council (The) An Chomhairle Ealaion Tel: (01) 618 0200 Fax: (01) 676 1302 Email: artistsservices@artscouncil.ie URL: www.artscouncil.ie Comment: Details 70 Merrion Square, Dublin 2, Republic of Ireland Publishes a guide for individuals and organisations to Arts Council bursaries, awards and schemes. It is also available online. This guide is called 'Supports for Artists'. Arts Council England Tel: 0845-300 6200 Fax: fax 020-7973 Email: enquiries@artscouncil.org.uk URL: textphone 020-7973 6564 URL: www.artscouncil.org.uk Comment: Details The Literature Dept, Arts Council England, 14 Great Peter Street, London SW1P 3NQ Arts Council England presents national prizes rewarding creative talent in the arts. These are awarded through the Council's flexible funds and are not necessarily open to application: the Children's Award, the David Cohen Prize for Literature, the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, John Whiting Award, Meyer Whitworth Award and the Raymond Williams Community Publishing Prize. Arts Council England, London Tel: 020-7608 6184 Fax: 020-7608 4100 URL: www.artscouncil.org.uk Comment: Details David Cross, Literature Administrator, Arts Council England, London, 2 Pear Tree Court, London EC1R0DS Arts Council England, London, is the regional office for the Capital, covering 33 boroughs and the City of London. Grants are available through the 'Grants for the arts' scheme throughout the year to support a variety of literature projects, concentrating particularly on original works of poetry and literary fiction and professional development for individual writers, including writers of children's books; touring and live literature; small independent literary publishers; and literary translation into English. Contact the Literature Unit for more information, or see website for an application form. Arts Council YouWriteOn.com Book Awards Tel: (07930) 553269 Email: edward@youwriteon.com URL: www.artscouncil.ie URL: www.youwriteon.com Comment: Arts Council-funded publishing awards for new fiction and poetry writers. New writers upload opening chapters, short stories and poetry and each month the 5 highest rated writers receive a free professional critique from established authors or editors at leading literary agents and publishers, such as Curtis Brown, Orion and Bloomsbury. The highest rated writers of the year are published, 3 in each of the adult and children's categories. The novel publishing awards total £1000 and winners can opt for a cash award instead of the publishing award. An anthology of short stories and poetry will also be published. Writers can enter at any time throughout the year by joining the website. Closing date: 31 December each year. Founded 2005. Arvon Foundation International Poetry Competition Tel: 020-7931 7611 Email: poetry@arvonfoundation.org Comment: Arvon Foundation Poetry Competition, 2nd Floor, 42A Buckingham Palace Road, London SW1W ORE A biennial competition for previously unpublished poems written in English. First prize £5000, plus at least £5000 in other cash prizes. Next competition: spring 2008. Founded 1980. Asham Award (The) Tel: 020-7931 7611 URL: www.ashamaward.com Comment: The Administrator, Asham Literary Endowment Trust, c/o Town Hall, High Street, Lewes, East Sussex BN7 A biennial national short story competition for women writers over the age of 18 and currently resident in the UK who have not previously had a novel or anthology published. Winners receive a cash prize and inclusion in an anthology published by Bloomsbury. Next competition will be launched in late autumn 2007; see website for details. Founded 1996. A biennial competition for previously unpublished poems written in English. First prize £5000, plus at least £5000 in other cash prizes. Next competition: spring 2008. Founded 1980. Australian/Vogel Literary Award (The) URL: www.allenandunwin.com Comment: PO Box 8500, St Leonards, NSW 1590, Australia. An annual award of $20,000 for a chosen unpublished work of fiction, Australian history or biography. Entrants must be under 35 years of age on the closing date and must normally be residents of Australia. The MS must be between 30,000 and 100,000 words and must be an original work entirely by the entrant written in English. It cannot be under consideration to any publisher or award. See website for details. Closing date: 31 May. Founded 1980. Authors' Club Awards Tel: 020-7499 8581 Fax: 020-7409 0913 Email: authors@theartsclub.co.uk URL: stellakane@theartsclub.co.uk URL: www.theartsclub.co.uk Comment: Details Stella Kane, Secretary, Authors' Club, 40 Dover Street, London WIS 4NP Best First Novel Award An award of £1000 is presented at a dinner held in the Club, to the author of the most promising first novel published in the UK during each year. Entries are accepted during October and must be full-length novels - short stories are not eligible. Instituted by Lawrence Meynell in 1954. Sir Banister Fletcher Award for Authors' Club The late Sir Banister Fletcher, a former President of both the Authors' Club and the Royal Institute of British Architects instituted an annual prize 'for the book on architecture or the arts most deserving'. The award is made on the recommendation of the Professional Literature Committee of RIBA, to whom nominations for eligible titles (i.e. those written by British authors or those resident in the UK and published under a British imprint) should be submitted by the end of May of the year after publication. The prize of £1000 is awarded by the Authors' Authors' Contingency Fund (The) Tel: 020-7373 6642 Fax: 020-7373 5768 Email: info@societyofauthors.org URL: www.societyofauthors.org Comment: Details Awards Secretary, The Society of Authors, 84 Drayton Gardens, London SW10 9SB This fund makes modest grants to published authors who find themselves in sudden financial difficulties. Apply for an information sheet and application form. Authors' Foundation (The) Tel: 020-7373 6642 Fax: 020-7373 5768 Email: info@societyofauthors.org URL: www.societyofauthors.org Comment: The Society of Authors, 84 Drayton Gardens, London SW10 9SB Grants are available to novelists, poets and writers of non-fiction who are published authors working on their next book. The aim is to provide funding (in addition to a proper advance) for research, travel or other necessary expenditure. Closing dates: 30th April and 30th September. Send sae for an information sheet. Founded in 1984 to mark the centenary of the Society of Authors. BA/Nielsen BookData Author of the Year Tel: 020-7802 0802* Fax: 020-7802 0803* Comment: Details *The Booksellers Association of the UK and Ireland Ltd, 272 Vauxhall Bridge Road,London SW1V 1BA Nielsen BookData, 3rd Floor, Midas House, 62 Goldsworth Road, Working, Surrey GU21 6LQ Tel (0870) 7778710: Fax (0870) 7778711 This annual award of £1000 is judged by members of the Booksellers Association in a postal ballot. Any living, British or Irish published writer is eligible and the award is given to the author judged to have had the most impact on the bookselling trade in the year. Founded 1993 BAAL Book Prize Email: v.koller@lancaster.ac.uk URL: www.baal.org.uk Comment: BAAL Publications Secretary, Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University, Lancaster LAI 4YT H. Contact Veronika Koller Annual award made by the British Association for Applied Linguistics to an outstanding book in the field of applied linguistics. Final entry at the end of October/November. Nominations from publishers only. BAFT A (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) Awards Tel: 020-7734 0022 Fax: 020-7292 5868 Email: reception@bafta.org URL: www.bafta.org Comment: Chief Executive Amanda Berry, 195 Piccadilly, London W1J 9LN The pre-eminent organisation in the UK for film, TV and video games, recognising and promoting the achievement and endeavour of industry practitioners. BAFTA Awards are awarded annually by members to their peers in recognition of their skills and expertise. Founded 1947. Bardd Plant Cymru (Children's Poet Laureate) Tel: 01970 624151 Fax: 01970 625385 URL: www.cllc.org.uk Comment: Welsh Books Council, Castell Brychan, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion SY23 2JB The main aim is to raise the profile of poetry amongst children and to encourage them to compose and enjoy poetry. Caryl Parry Jones is Bardd Plant Cymru 2007-8. During her term of office she will visit schools as well as helping children to create poetry through electronic workshops. Established by S4C, the Welsh Books Council and Urdd Gobaith Cymru; recently the Academi became part of the partnership. Bargate (Verity) Award Tel: 01970 624151 Fax: 01970 625385 URL: www.cllc.org.uk Comment: Details Literary Assistant, Soho Theatre, 21 Dean Street, London W1D 3NE This biennial award is made to the writer of a new and previously unperformed full-length play. It is the only award in the UK designed specifically for emerging writers and is only eligible to playwrights with less than 3 professional credits. The winner receives: a prize of £3500, a residency at the Soho Theatre, and the prize-winning play may be professionally produced by the Soho Theatre Company. Next award: 2007/9. See website for infomation on workshops and events associated with the award. Established 1982. BBC FOUR Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction Tel: 020 7631 2666 Fax: 020 7631 2699 Email: hannah@colmangetty.co.uk URL: www.colmangettypr.co.uk Comment: Details Hannah Blake, Colman Getty Consultancy, 28 Windmill Street,WlT2JJ The annual prize is the biggest non-fiction prize in CK and is worth £30,000. Eligible books published between 1 May 2005 and 30 April 2007 are submitted by publishers. Closing date: mid January. The winner is announced in June. Sponsored by BBC. Founded 1999. Berry (David) Prize Tel: 020 7387 7532 Fax: 020-7387 7532 Email: royalhistsoc@ucl.ac.uk URL: rhs.info@sas.ac.uk URL: www.rhs.ac.uk Comment: Details Executive Secretary of the Royal Historical Society,University College London, Gower Street, WC1E 6BT. Candidates may select any subject dealing with Scottish history. Value of prize: £250. Closing date: 31 October each year. Blundell (Kathleen) Trust (The) Tel: 020-7373 6642 Email: info@societyofauthors.org URL: www.societyofauthors.org Comment: Kathleen Blundell Trust, The Society of Authors, 84 Drayton Gardens, London SW10 9SB Awards are given to published writers under the age of 40 to assist them with their next book. The author's work must 'contribute to the greater understanding of existing social and economic organisation', but fiction is not excluded. Closing dates: 30 April and 30 September. Send sae for an information sheet. Boardman Tasker Prize (The) Tel: 020-7373 6642 Email: margaretbody@lineone.net URL: www.boardmantasker.co.uk Comment: Details Maggie Body, Pound House, Llangennith, Swansea SA3 1JQ This annual prize of £2000 is given for a work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry, the central theme of which is concerned with the mountain environment. Authors of any nationality are eligible but the work must be published or distributed in the UK. Entries from publishers only. Founded 1983. Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction (The) Tel: 020-7631-2666 Fax: 020-7631 2699 Email: lois@colmangettypr.co.uk Comment: Submissions Lois Tucker, Colman Getty Consultancy, 28 Windmill Street, London WIT 2JJ The UK's only prize for comic fiction will be awarded to the most original comic novel - the book that has really made people laugh over the previous 12 months. The winner will receive a case of Bollinger Special Cuvee, a Jeroboam of Bollinger, a complete set of the Everyman Wodehouse and a rare breed pig named after the winning novel. Eligible are novels published in the UK between 1 May and 30 April. The winner will be announced at the Guardian Hay Festival in late May/early June. Closing date: late February; the shortlist will be announced in mid April. Launched in 2000 on the 25th anniversary of the death of P.G. Wodehouse. Booktrust Early Years Awards Tel: 020-8516 2972/2960 Fax: 020-8516 2978 Email: tarryn@booktrust.org.uk URL: helen@booktrust.org.uk URL: www.booktrusted.org.uk Comment: Details Booktrust, Book House, 45 East Hill, London SW18 2QZ Contacts Tarryn McKay, Helen Hayes The winners of each of 3 categories, Baby Book Award, Pre-School Award and Best New Illustrator, will each receive £2000 and a crystal obelisk. The winner of the Best New Illustrator also receives a specially commissioned piece of artwork from a well-known children's illustrator. The winning publishers receive a commemorative award. Closing date: early May. Established 1999 (formerly the Sainsbury's Baby Book Award). Booktrust Teenage Prize (The) Tel: 020-8516 2986 Fax: 020-8516 2978 Email: hannah@booktrust.org.uk URL: www.bookheads.org.uk Comment: Details Booktrust, Book House, 45 East Hill, London SW18 2QZ Contact Hannah Rutland The first annual national book prize to recognise and celebrate the best in young adult fiction. The author of the best book for teenagers receives £2500 and is chosen from a shortlist of 6-8. Eligible books must be fiction, aimed at teenagers between the ages of 13 and 16 and written in English by a citizen of the UK, or an author resident in the UK. The work must be published between 1 July and 30 June by a UK publisher. Established 2003. Bradley (Alfred) Bursary Award Tel: 0161-244 4253 URL: www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom Comment: Details BBC Writersroom, 379-381 Euston Road, London NW1 3AU This biennial bursary of £6000 (over 2 years, plus a full commission for a radio play) is awarded to a writer resident in the North of England who has had a small amount of work published or produced. The scheme also allows for a group of finalists to receive small bursaries and develop ideas for radio drama commissions. Next closing date: November 2008. Founded 1992. Branford Boase Award (The) Tel: 01962 826658 Fax: 01962 856615 Email: anne.marley@tiscali.co.uk URL: www.branfordboaseaward.org.uk Comment: Details The Administrator, 8 Bolderwood Close,Bishopstoke, Eastleigh SO50 5PG An annual award of £1000 is made to a first-time writer of a full-length children's novel (age 7+) published in the preceding year; the editor is also recognised. Its aim is to encourage new writers for children and to recognise the role of perceptive editors in developing new talent. The Award was set up in memory of the outstanding children's writer Henrietta Branford and the gifted editor and publisher Wendy Boase who both died in 1999. Closing date for nominations: end of March of each year. Founded 2000. Bridport Prize (The) Tel: 01308 485064 Fax: 01308 485120 Email: frances@bridportprize.org.uk URL: www.bridportprize.org.uk Comment: Details Bridport Arts Centre, South Street, Bridport, Dorset DT6 3NR Annual prizes are awarded for poetry and short stories - 1st £5000,2nd £1000, 3rd £500 in both categories. Entries should be in English, original work, typed or clearly written, and never published, read on radio/TV/stage. Winning stories are read by a leading London literary agent, without obligation, and an anthology of winning entries is published each autumn. Send sae for entry form or enter online. Closing date: 30 June each year. British Academy Medals and Prizes Tel: 020-7969 5200 Fax: 020-7969 5300 Email: secretary@britac.ac.uk URL: www.britac.ac.uk Comment: The British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH A number of medals and prizes are awarded for outstanding work in various fields of the humanities on the recommendation of specialist committees: Burkitt Medal for Biblical Studies; Derek Allen Prize (made annually in turn for musicology, numismatics and Celtic studies); Sir Israel Gollancz Prize (for English studies); Grahame Clark Medal for Prehistoric Archaeology; Kenyon Medal for Classical Studies; Rose Mary Crawshay Prize (for English literature); Serena Medal for Italian Studies; Leverhulme Medal and Prize. British Book Awards Tel: 01580 212041 Fax: 01580 212041 Email: nibbies@mdla.co.uk URL: www.britishbookawards.com Comment: Details Merric Davidson, PO Box 60, Cranbrook, Kent TN17 2ZR Referred to as the 'Nibbies' and presented annually, major categories include: Author of the Year, Publisher of the Year, Bookseller of the Year, Children's Book of the Year. Sponsored by Galaxy. Founded 1989. British Press Awards Tel: 020-7549 8719 Fax: 020-7566 5780 URL: www.britishpressawards.com Comment: Press Gazette, 6-14 Underwood Street, London Nl 7JQ Annual awards for British journalism judged by more than 80 respected, influential judges as well as representatives from all the national newspaper groups. Closing date: mid January 2008. Caine Prize for African Writing (The) Tel: 020-7378 6234 Fax: 020-7378 6235 Email: info@caineprize.com URL: www.caineprize.com Comment: Details: Nick Elam, Administrator, The Menier Gallery, Menier Chocolate Factory,51 Southwark Street, London SE5 1AU An annual award of £10,000 for a short story published in English (may be a translation into English) by an African writer in the 5 years before the closing date, and not previously submitted. Indicative length 3000-15,000 words. Submissions only by publishers. Closing date: 31 January each year. Founded 1999. Cardiff International Poetry Competition Tel: 029-2047 2266 Email: post@academi.org URL: www.academi.org Comment: Details: entry form Cardiff International Poetry Competition, PO Box 438, Cardiff CF10 5YA Chief Executive Peter Finch Eight prizes totalling £6000 are awarded annually for unpublished poetry written in English (1st £5000; 2nd £500; 3rd £250; plus 5 prizes of £100). Entry forms may also be downloaded from the website. Closing date: January 2008. CBI Bisto Book of the Year Awards (The) Tel: (01) 8727475 Fax: (01) 8727476 Email: info@childrensbooksireland.com URL: www.childrensbooksireland.com URL: www.childrensbooksireland.com Comment: Details The Administrator, Children's Books Ireland, 17 North Great Georges Street, Dublin 1, Republic of Ireland Annual awards open to authors and/or illustrators who are Irish citizens or who are full-time Irish residents. Closing date: December 2008 for work published between 1 January and 31 December 2008. Founded 1990. The 'CBI Bisto Book of the Year Award' An award of €10,000 is presented to the overall winner (text and/or illustration). The 'CBI Bisto Merit Awards' A prize fund of €6000 is divided between 3 authors and/or illustrators. The 'CBI Bisto Eilis Dillon Award' An award of €3000 is presented to an author for a first children's book. Children's Laureate (The) Tel: 023-8516 2985 Fax: 020-8516 2978 Email: childrenslaureate@booktrust.org.uk URL: www.childrenslaureate.org, URL: www.booktrust.org Comment: Details Booktrust, Book House, 45 East Hill, London SW18 2QZ A biennial award of £10,000 to honour a writer or illustrator of children's books for a lifetime's achievement. It highlights the importance of children's book creators in developing readers and illustrators of the future. Founded 1998. Cholmondeley Awards Tel: 020-7373 6642 Email: info@societyofauthors.org URL: www.societyofauthors.org Comment: Awards Secretary, The Society of Authors, 84 Drayton Gardens, London SW10 9SB These honorary awards are to recognise the achievement and distinction of individual poets. Submissions are not accepted. Total value of awards about £8000. Established by the then Dowager Marchioness of Cholmondeley in 1965. CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Awards (The) Email: marketing@cilip.org.uk URL: www.ckg.org.uk Comment: Recommendations for the following 2 awards are invited from members of CILIP (the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals), who are asked to submit a preliminary list of not more than 2 titles for each award, accompanied by a 50-word appraisal justifying the recommendation of each book. The awards are selected by the Youth Libraries Group of CILIP. 'Carnegie Medal' Awarded annually for an outstanding book for children (fiction or non-fiction) written in English and first published in the UK during the preceding year or co-published elsewhere within a 3-month time lapse. 'Kate Greenaway Medal' Awarded annually for an outstanding illustrated book for children first published in the UK during the preceding year or co-published elsewhere within a 3-month time lapse. Books intended for older as well as younger children are included, and reproduction will be taken into account. The Colin Mears Award (£5000) is awarded annually to the winner of the Kate Greenaway Meda Cohen (David) Prize for Literature (The) Tel: 020-7973 5325 URL: www.artscouncil.org.uk Comment: Details The Literature Dept, Arts Council England, 14 Great Peter Street, London SW1P 3NQ This biennial prize marks a lifetime's literary achievement. The winner receives £40,000 plus an additional £12,500 to support a young writer. Commonwealth Writers Prize Email: j.sobol@commonwealth.int URL: www.artscouncil.org.uk Comment: Details Commonwealth Foundation, Marlborough House, Pall Mall, London SW1Y 5HY Contact Jennifer Sobol This annual award is for the best work of fiction in English by a citizen of the Commonwealth published in the year prior to the award. Prizes are given for the Best Book and Best First Book, valued at £1000, in each of the 4 Commonwealth Regions: Africa, Canada and the Caribbean, Europe and South Asia, South East Asia and the South Pacific. From these regions, the overall winner for the Best Book and Best First Book prizes are chosen. A prize of £10,000 is awarded for overall best book and £5000 is awarded to the overall best first published book. Organised and funded by the Commonwealth Foundation with the support of the Macquarie Foundation in 2 of the 4 regions. Established 1987. Cooper (Duff) Prize (The) Tel: 020-7736 3729 Fax: 020-7731 7638 Comment: Details Artemis Cooper, 54 St Maur Road, London SW6 4DP An annual prize for a literary work in the field of biography, history, politics or poetry published in English or French and submitted by a recognised publisher during the previous 12 months. The prize of £4000 comes from a Trust Fund established by the friends and admirers of Duff Cooper, 1st Viscount Norwich (1890-1954) after his death. Cordon d'Or - Cold Ribbon Awards Tel: 020-7736 3729 Fax: 020-7731 7638 URL: www.goldribboncookery.com Comment: PO Box 40660, St Petersburg, FL 33743-0660, USA Contact Noreen Kinney, President Awards for culinary writers, journalists, photographers, magazines, newsletters and websites. Overall winner receives $1000. See website for details. Founded 2003. Costa Book Awards (formerly the Whitbread Book Awards) Tel: 020-7802 0801 Fax: 020-7802 0803 Email: anna.okane@booksellers.org.uk, URL: naomi.gane@booksellers.org.uk URL: www.costabookawards.co.uk Comment: Details The Booksellers Association, Minster House,272 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London SW1V 1BA Contact Anna O'Kane (adult award), Naomi Gane (children's award). The awards celebrate and promote the most enjoyable contemporary British writing. Judged in 2 stages and offering a total of £50,000 prize money, there are 5 categories: Novel, First Novel, Biography, Poetry and Children's. They are judged by a panel of 3 judges and the winner in each category receives £5000. 9 final judges then choose the Costa Book of the Year from the 5 category winners. The overall winner receives £25,000. Writers must be resident in Great Britain or Ireland for 3 or more years. Submissions must be received from publishers. Closing date: end of June. Crawshay (Rose Mary) Prizes (The) Tel: 020-7969 5200 Fax: 020-7969 5300 Email: secretary@britac.ac.uk URL: www.britac.ac.uk Comment: The British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH One or more prizes are awarded each year to women of any nationality who, in the judgement of the Council of the British Academy, have written or published within the 3 calendar years immediately preceding the date of the award an historical or critical work of sufficient value on any subject connected with English literature, preference being given to a work regarding Byron, Shelley or Keats. Founded 1888. Criticos Prize (The John D.) Fax: 020-8442 7000 Comment: Coordinator Michael Moschos, The London Hellenic Society, 11 Stormont Road,London N6 4NS A prize of £10,000 will be awarded to an artist, writer or researcher for an original work on Hellenic culture. Areas of particular interest are archaeology, art, art history, history and literature. No application necessary: send 2 copies of book plus covering letter. Closing date: 31 January. Founded 1996. CWA Awards Email: secretary@thecwa.co.uk URL: www.thecwa.co.uk Comment: Awards for crime writing: the Cartier Diamond Dagger; the New Blood Dagger; the Duncan Lawrie International Dagger; the Duncan Lawrie Dagger for Fiction; the Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction; the CWA Ellis Peters Historical Award; the CWA Short Story Award; the Debut Dagger; the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger, the Dagger in the Library. See website for details. David St John Thomas Charitable Trust Competitions & Awards (The) Tel: 01667 453351 Fax: 01667 452365 Email: dsjtcharitynairn@fsmail.net URL: www.dsjtcharitabletrust.co.uk Comment: The David St John Thomas Charitable Trust, PO Box 6055, Nairn IV12 4YB Contact Lorna Edwardson A programme of writing competitions, some run with others, such as Writing Magazine, including a ghost story (1600-1800 words, 1st prize £1000) and poetry (up to 32 lines, total prize money £1000). Publication of winning entries is guaranteed. The Self-Publishing Awards are open to anyone who has self-published a book during the preceding calendar year, with a total award of £1000. For full details of these and other awards, including an annual writers' groups anthology, send a large sae or see website Davies Trust (The Rhys) Tel: 029-2062 3359 Comment: Details Prof Meic Stephens, The Secretary, The Rhys Davies Trust, 10 Heol Don, Whitchurch, Cardiff CF14 2AU The Trust aims to foster Welsh writing in English and offers financial assistance to English-language literary projects in Wales, directly or in association with other bodies. Deutsche Borse Photography Prize Tel: 020-7831 1772 Fax: 020-7836 9704 Email: info@photonet.org.uk URL: www.photonet.org.uk Comment: The Photographers' Gallery, 5 and 8 Great Newport Street, London WC2H 7HY Aims to reward a living photographer, of any nationality, who has made the most significant contribution to the medium of photography during the past year (1 st prize £30,000; 3 runners up will each receive £3000). Photographers will be nominated for a significant exhibition that took place or publication that was published in Europe during that time, and 4 shortlisted photographers will be selected and invited to present their work in an exhibition at the Gallery. Founded in 1996 by the Photographers' Gallery. Dundee International Book Prize (The) Tel: 01382 434214 Fax: 01382 434650 Email: book.prize@dundeecity.gov.uk URL: www.dundeebookprize.com Comment: Details Karin Johnston, Dundee City Council, Economic Development, 3 City Square, Dundee DDI 3BA A biennial prize (£10,000 and the chance of publication by Polygon) awarded for an unpublished novel. Next award: 2009. Founded 1996. Eliot Prize (T.S.) Tel: 020 7833 9247 Email: info@poetrybooks.co.uk URL: www.poetrybooks.co.uk URL: www.poetrybookshoponline.com Comment: Applications: Poetry Book Society, 4th. Floor, 2, Tavistock Place, London WC1H 9RA An annual prize of £10,000 is awarded to the best collection of new poetry published in the UK or Republic of Ireland during the year. Submissions are invited from publishers in the summer. The prize money is provided by Valerie Eliot. Founded 1993. Encore Award Tel: 020 7373 6642 Email: info@societyofauthors.org URL: www.societyofauthors.com Comment: Awards Secretary, The Society of Authors, 84 Drayton Gardens, London SW10 9SB The award of £10,000 is for the best second novel of the previous two years. The work submitted must be a novel by one author who has had one (and only one) novel published previously, and in the English language, first published in the UK. Entries should be submitted by the publisher. Closing date: 30 November. Faber Memorial Prize (The Geoffrey) Comment: An annual prize of £1000 is awarded in alternate years for a volume of verse and for a volume of prose fiction, first published originally in the UK during the 2 years preceding the year in which the award is given which is, in the opinion of the judges, of the greatest literary merit. Eligible writers must be not more than 40 years old at the date of publication of the book and a citizen of the UK and Colonies, of any other Commonwealth state or of the Republic of Ireland. The 3 judges are reviewers of poetry or fiction who are nominated each year by the literary editors of newspapers and magazines which regularly publish such reviews. Faber and Faber invite nominations from reviewers and literary editors. No submissions for the prize are to be made. Established in 1963 by Faber and Faber Ltd, as a memorial to the founder and first Chairman of the firm. Fagon Award (The Alfred) Email: alfredfagonaward@talawa.com URL: www.alfredfagonaward.co.uk Comment: The Alfred Fagon Award, The Royal Court Theatre, Sloane Square, London SW1W 8AS An annual award of £5000 for the best new play (which need not have been produced) for the theatre in English. TV and radio plays and film scripts will not be considered. Only writers from the Caribbean or with Caribbean antecedence and who are resident in the UK are eligible. Applicants should submit 2 copies of their play plus sae for return of their script and a CV which includes details of the writer's Caribbean connection. Closing date: end August. Founded 1997. Farjeon Award (The Eleanor) URL: www.childrensbookcircle.org.uk Comment: An annual award of (minimum) £750 may be given to a librarian, teacher, author, artist, publisher, reviewer, TV producer or any other person working with or for children through books. It was instituted in 1965 by the Children's Book Circle for distinguished services to children's books and named after the much-loved children's writer. Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award Email: bookaward@ft.com URL: www.ft.com/bookaward Comment: To identify the book that provides the most compelling and enjoyable insight into modern business issues, including management, finance and economics. Books that have appeared for the first time in English between 31 October and 1 November of the following year are eligible. Submissions should come via the publisher. The winner will receive £30,000 and 5 other shortlisted authors will win £5000 each. Closing date: end of June. Fish Short Story Prize Email: info@fishpublishing.com URL: www.fishpublishing.com Comment: Fish Publishing, Durrus, Bantry, Co. Cork, Republic of Ireland Contact Clem Cairns The best 15 stories (max. 5000 words) will be published in the Fish Anthology. 1st prize: €2500. Entry fee: £15/€20 per story. Closing date: 30 November. Critiques available all year. See website for further information and for details of One-Page Story Prize and other short story competitions. Founded 1994. Forster Award (E.M.) Email: URL: www.artsandletters.org Comment: American Academy of Arts and Letters, 633 West 155th Street, New York, NY 10032, USA The distinguished English author, E.M. Forster, bequeathed the American publication rights and royalties of his posthumous novel Maurice to Christopher Isherwood, who transferred them to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, for the establishment of an E.M. Forster Award, currently $15,000, to be given annually to a British or Irish writer for a stay in the USA. Applications for this award are not accepted. Forward Prizes for Poetry Tel: 020-7631 2666 Fax: 020-7631 2699 Email: pr@colmangetty.co.uk Comment: Details: Forward Poetry Prize Administrator, Colman Getty Consultancy, 28 Windmill Street, London WIT 2JJ 3 prizes are awarded annually: 'The Forward Prize' for best collection of poetry published between 1 October and 30 September (£10,000); 'The Felix Dennis Prize' for best first collection of poetry published between 1 October and 30 September (£5000); and 'The Forward Prize' for best single poem in memory of Michael Donaghy, published but not as part of a collection between 1 May and 30 April (£1000). All poems entered are also considered for inclusion in the 'Forward Book of Poetry', an annual anthology. Entries must be submitted by book publishers and editors of newspapers, periodicals and magazines in the UK and Eire. Entries from individual poets of their unpublished or self-published work will not be accepted. Established 1992. Franklin (Miles) Literary Award Tel: (02) 9326 5507 Email: trustawards@canzgroup.com.au URL: www.trust.com.au Comment: Details PO Box 777, Randwick, NSW 2031, Australia This annual award of $42,000 is for a novel or play first published in the preceding year, which presents Australian life in any of its phases. More than one entry may be submitted by each author. Biographies, collections of short stories or children's books are not eligible. Closing date: 2nd Friday in December. Founded 1957. Gelber Prize (The Lionel) Tel: 416-946 8900 Fax: 416-946 8915 Email: events.munk@utoronto.ca URL: www.utoronto.ca/mcis/gelber Comment: Details Prize Manager, The Lionel Gelber Prize, c/o Munk Centre for International Studies, 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3K7, Canada This international prize is awarded annually in Canada to the author of the year's most outstanding work of non-fiction in the field of international relations. Submissions must be published in English or in English translation. Books must be submitted by the publisher. Full eligibility details are on website. Established 1989. Gladstone History Book Prize Email: royalhistsoc@ucl.ac.uk URL: rhs.info@sas.ac.uk Comment: Submissions Executive Secretary, Royal Historical Society, University College London,Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT An annual award (value £1000) for a history book. The book must: be on any historical subject which is not primarily related to British history; be its author's first solely written history book;have been published in English during the calendar year of 2007 by a scholar normally resident in the UK; be an original and scholarly work of historical research. One non-returnable copy of an eligible book should be submitted before 31 December. Should the book be shortlisted, 2 further copies will be required. Gregory Trust Fund (The Eric) Tel: 020-7373 6642 Email: info@societyofauthors.org URL: www.societyofauthors.org Comment: Awards Secretary, The Society of Authors, 84 Drayton Gardens, London SW10 9SB A number of substantial awards are made annually for the encouragement of young poets who can show that they are likely to benefit from an opportunity to give more time to writing. An eligible candidate must be a British subject by birth, but not a national of Eire or any of the British dominions or colonies, and be ordinarily resident in the UK or Northern Ireland; be under the age of 30 on 31 March in the year of the Award (i.e. the year following submission). Send sae for entry form. Closing date, 31 October. Griffin Poetry Prize Tel: 905-565 5993 Fax: 905-564 3645 URL: www.griffinpoetryprize.com Comment: The Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry, 6610 Edwards Boulevard, Mississauga, Ontario L5T 2V6, Canada Two annual prizes of Can.$50,000 will be awarded for collections of poetry published in English during the preceding year. One prize will go to a living Canadian poet, the other to a living poet from any country. Collections of poetry translated into English from other languages are also eligible and will be assessed for their literary quality in English. Submissions only from publishers. Closing date: 31 December, founded 2000. Guardian Children's Fiction Prize (The) Tel: 020-7239 9694 Email: books@guardian.co.uk Comment: Ihe Guardian's annual prize of £1500 is for a work of fiction for children over 8 (no picture books) published by a British or Commonwealth writer. The winning book is chosen by the Children's Book tttoi together with a team of 3-4 other authors of children's books. Guardian First Book Award (The) Tel: 020 7239 9694 Fax: 020 7713 4366 Email: books@guardian.co.uk Comment: Submissions: Literary Editor, The Guardian, 119 Farringdon Rd., London EC1R 3ER Open to first-time authors published in English in the UK across all genres of writing, the award will recognise and reward new writing by honouring an author's first book. The winner will receive £10,000 plus an advertising package within the Guardian and Observer. Publishers may submit up to 3 titles per imprint with publication dates between January and December each year. Closing date: late July. Guardian Research Fellowship (The) Tel: 01865 278542 Fax: 01865 278666 Email: academic.administrator@nuffield.oxford.ac.uk Comment: Details: Academic Administrator, Guardian Research Fellowship, Nuffield College, OXl INF A biebbial Fellowship to be held for one year at Nuffield College, Oxford, to research or study any project related to the experience of working in the media. It is hoped that the Fellow will produce a book or substantial piece of written work. The Fellow will be asked to give the Guardian lecture following the end of their Fellowship. The Fellowship is open to people working in newspapers, TV, the internet or other media. Advertised: October 2008. Founded 1987. Hans Christian Andersen Awards (The) Tel: Int. + (61) 2722917 Fax: Int.+ 61) 2722757 Email: ibby@ibby.org website Comment: Details International Board on Books for Young People, Nonnenweg 12, Postfach, CH-4003 Basel, Switzerland website www.ibby.org The Medals are awarded every 2 years to a living author and an illustrator who by the outstanding value of their work are judged to have made a lasting contribution to literature for children and young people. Hawthornden Fellowships Tel: 0131-440 2180 Fax: 0131-440 1989 Comment: The Administrator, International Retreat for Writers, Hawthornden Castle, Lasswade, Midlothian EH 18 1EG Applications are invited from novelists, poets, dramatists and other creative writers whose work has already been published by reputable or recognised presses. Four-week fellowships are offered to those working on a current project. Translators may also apply. Application forms are available from March for Fellowships awarded in the following year. Hawthornden Prize (The) Comment: The Administrator, 42A Hays Mews, Berkeley Square, London Wl J 5QA This prize of £10,000 is awarded annually to the author of what, in the opinion of the Committee, is the best work of imaginative literature published during the preceding calendar year by a British author. Books do not have to be specially submitted. Head (Francis) Bequest Tel: 020-7373 6642 Fax: 020-7373 5768 Email: info@societyofauthors.org URL: www.societyofauthors.org Comment: Details Awards Secretary, The Society of Authors, 84 Drayton Gardens, London SW10 9SB This fund provides grants to published British authors over the age of 35 who need financial help during a period of illness, disablement or temporary financial crisis. Apply for an information sheet and application form. Hemans Prize for Lyrical Poetry (The Felicia) Tel: 0151-794 2458 Email: wilderc@liv.ac.uk Comment: Submissions The Sub-Dean, Faculty of Arts, The University of Liverpool, PO Box 147, Liverpool L69 3BX This annual prize of books or money, open to past and present members and students of the University of Liverpool only, is awarded for a lyrical poem, the subject of which may be chosen by the competitor. Only one poem, either published or unpublished, may be submitted. The prize shall not be awarded more than once to the same competitor. Poems, endorsed 'Hemans Prize', must be submitted by 1 May. Hessell-Tiltman Prize Tel: 020-7713 0023 Fax: 020-7837 7838 Email: enquiries@englishpen.org URL: www.englishpen.org Comment: English PEN, 6-8 Amwell Street, London EC1R 1UQ An annual prize made possible by a bequest to the PEN Literary Foundation of £100,000 from PEN member Marjorie Hessell-Tiltman. Each year the prize is awarded to a non-fiction work of high literary merit covering any historical period until the end of the Second World War. Submissions are not accepted. Founded 2002. Hoffman Memorial Prize for Distinguished Publication on Christopher Marlowe (The Calvin and Rose C.) Tel: 01227 595544 Fax: 01227 595589 Comment: Applications The Bursar, The King's School, Canterbury, Kent CT1 2ES This annual prize of around £7000 is awarded to the best unpublished work that examines the life and works of Christopher Marlowe and the relationship between the works of Marlowe and Shakespeare. Closing date: 1 September. Hubbard's (L. Ron) Writers and Illustrators of the Future Contests Comment: Administrator Andrea Grant-Webb, PO Box 218, East Grinstead, West Sussex RH19 4GH Aims to encourage new and aspiring writers and illustrators of science fiction and fantasy. In addition to the quarterly prizes there is an annual prize of £2500 for each contest. All 24 winners are invited to the annual L. Ron Hubbard Achievement Awards, which include a series of writers' and illustrators' workshops, and their work is published in an anthology. Write for an entry form. 'Writers of the Future Contest' Entrants should submit a short story of up to 10,000 words or a novelette of less than 17,000 words. Prizes of £500 (1st), £375 (2nd) and £250 (3rd) are awarded each quarter. Founded 1984. 'Illustrators of the Future Contest' Entrants should submit 3 b&w illustrations on different themes. Three prizes of £250 are awarded each quarter. Founded 1988. Images - The Best of British Contemporary Illustration Tel: 020-7613 4328 Fax: 020-7613 4417 Email: images@theaoi.com URL: www.theaoi.com Comment: Details Association of Illustrators, 2nd Floor, Back Building, 150 Curtain Road, London EC2A 3AT Contact Images Co-ordinator Illustrators are invited to submit work for possible inclusion in the Images Annual, a jury-selected showcase of the best of contemporary British illustration. Selected work forms the Images exhibition, which tours the UK. UK illustrators or illustrators working for UK clients are all eligible. See website for entry details in the Spring. Founded 1975 Imison Award (The) Tel: 020-7613 4328 Email: info@societyofauthors.org URL: www.societyofauthors.org Comment: Details/entry form The Secretary, The Broadcasting Committee, The Society of Authors, 84 Drayton Gardens,London SW10 9SB This annual prize of £1500 is awarded to any new writer of radio drama first transmitted within the UK during the previous year by a writer new to radio. Founded 1995. Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Tel: 020-7973 5325 URL: www.artscouncil.org.uk Comment: Details The Literature Dept, Arts Council England, 14 Great Peter Street, London SW1P 3NQ In collaboration with the Independent newspaper and Champagne Taittinger, Arts Council England awards the £10,000 prize to honour a great work of fiction I a living author which has been translated into English from any other language and published in the UK. The prize is shared equally between the author and the translator. Insight Guides Travel Photography Prize Tel: 020-7403 0284 Fax: 020-7403 0290 URL: www.insightguides.com Comment: Details APA Publications (UK) Ltd, 58 Borough High Street, London SE1 1XF An annual competition open to amateur and professional photographers resident in the UK (theme to be announced). First prize is a commission to photograph for an Insight Guide worth £3000. Closing date: end of August 2008. Founded 2000. International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Tel: 353 1 674 4802 Fax: 353 1 674 4879 Email: literaryaward@dublincity.ie URL: www.impacdublinaward.ie Comment: Details Ms Cathy McKenna, The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award,Dublin City Library & Archive, 138-144 Pearse Street, Dublin 2, Republic of Ireland. This award is the largest and most international prize of its kind. Administered by Dublin City Public Libraries, nominations are made by libraries in capital and major cities throughout the world. Titles are nominated solely on the basis of 'high literary merit' and books may be written in any language. The prize is €100,000 which is awarded to the author if the book is written in English. If the winning book is in English translation, the author receives €75,000 and the translator €25,000. The Award, an initiative of Dublin City Council, is a partnership between Dublin City Council, the Municipal Government of Dublin City, and IMPAC. Established 1996. International Playwriting Festival Tel: 020-8681 1257 Fax: 020-8688 6699 Email: info@warehousetheatre.co.uk URL: www.warehousetheatre.co.uk Comment: Details/entry form Festival Administrator, Warehouse Theatre, Dingwall Road, Croydon CR0 2NF An annual competition for full-length unperformed plays. Selected plays are showcased during the festival weekend in November. Plays are also presented in Italy at the leading Italian playwriting festival Premio Candoni Arta Terme. Entries are welcome from all parts of the world. Send sae for further details or visit the website. Deadline for entries: 30 June. Founded 1985. ISG (CILIP)/BookData Reference Awards (The) URL: www.cilip.org.uk Comment: Awarded annually for outstanding works of reference published in the UK during the preceding year. There are 2 categories, one for electronic formats and one for printed works. Recommendations are invited from Members of CILIP (the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals), publishers and others, who are asked to submit a preliminary list of not more than 3 titles via the website. Winners receive a cash prize, a certificate and a prestigious golden medal. "The Walford Award" Awarded annually to an individual who has made a sustained and continued contribution to the science and art of British bibliography over a period of years. The bibliographer's work can encompass effort in the history, classification and description of printed, written, audiovisual and machine-readable materials. Recommendations may be made for the work of a living person or persons, or for an organisation. The award can be made to a British bibliographer or to a person or organisation working Jelf Group First Novel Award Tel: 01483 444334 Email: deputy@guildfordbookfestival.co.uk URL: www.guildfordbookfestival.co.uk Comment: Elderlie, Polesden Lane, Send Marsh, Ripley, Surrey GU23 6JX An award of £2500 is made for a first novel in any genre published between Guildford Book Festivals (held in October). Applications should be made through a publisher or literary agent. Eligible authors must reside in the UK. Part of the Guildford Book Festival (see page 599). Closing date: 31 July 2008. Founded 1997. Jewish Quarterly - Wingate Literary Prizes Tel: 01483 444334 Email: deputy@guildfordbookfestival.co.uk URL: www.guildfordbookfestival.co.uk Comment: Elderlie, Polesden Lane, Send Marsh, Ripley, Surrey GU23 6JX An award of £2500 is made for a first novel in any genre published between Guildford Book Festivals (held in October). Applications should be made through a publisher or literary agent. Eligible authors must reside in the UK. Part of the Guildford Book Festival (see page 599). Closing date: 31 July 2008. Founded 1997. Jewish Quarterly - Wingate Literary Prizes Tel: 020-8343 4675 Email: admin@jewishquarterly.org URL: www.jewishquarterly.org Comment: Details Pam Lewis, PO Box 37645, London NW7 1WB Prizes are awarded annually for a work of fiction (£4000) and non-fiction (£4000) which best stimulate an interest in and awareness of themes of Jewish concern among a wider reading public. Runners up each receive £300. Founded 1977. Kenney Poetry Competition (The Petra) Email: morgan@petrapoetrycompetition.co.uk URL: www.petrapoetrycompetition.co.uk Comment: Details Morgan Kenney, The Belmoredean Barn, Maplehurst Road, West Grinstead RH13 6RN This annual competition is for unpublished poems on any theme and in any style, and is open to everyone. Poems should be no more than 80 lines. Entry fee: £3 per poem. Prizes: 1st - £1000 plus publication in Writing Magazine, 2nd - £500,3rd -£250 plus a Royal Brierley crystal vase; 3 prizes of £125; Comic Verse - £250; Young Poets (age 14-18) £250 and £125. Closing date: 1 December each year. Founded 1995. Kent and Sussex Poetry Society Open Poetry Competition Comment: Submissions The Organiser, 13 Ruscombe Close, Southborough, Tunbridge Wells, Kent TN4 OSG. This competition is open to all unpublished poems, no longer than 40 lines in length. Prizes: 1st £600, 2nd £200, 3rd £100,4th 6 at £75. Closing date: 31 January. Entries should include an entry fee of £4 per poem, the author's name and address and a list of poems submitted. Founded 1985. Kerry Croup Irish Fiction Award Tel: 353 6821074 Fax: 353 6822893 Email: info@writersweek.ie URL: www.writersweek.ie Comment: Details Writers' Week, 24 The Square, Listowel, Co. Kerry, Republic of Ireland. An annual award of €10,000 for a published work of fiction by an Irish author. No entry fee. Kiriyama Prize (The) Tel: 415-777-1628 Fax: 415-777-1646 Email: info@kiriyamaprize.org URL: www.kiriyamaprize.org Comment: Details Jeannine Stronach, Pacific Rim Voices, The Kiriyama Prize, 300 Third Street, Suite 822, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA An international book prize to recognise outstanding books about the Pacific Rim and South Asia that encourage greater mutual understanding and foster peace among the peoples of this vast and diverse region. The prize of $30,000 is divided equally between the winning fiction author and winning non-fiction author. Closing date: late October. Founded 1996. Kraszna-Krausz Awards Tel: 020-7100 2523 Email: awards@k-k.org.uk URL: www.k-k.org.uk Comment: Details Jenny Boyce, Administrator, Kraszna-Krausz Foundation, 37 Eton Avenue, London N12 0BD Awards totalling over £10,000 are made each year and in 2006 they were restructured so that annual prizes in future would be for the best books on the moving image (film, TV and video) and still photography, in various categories. Entries to be submitted by publishers only.The Foundation is also open to applications for grants (UK only) concerned with the literature of photography and the moving image. Instituted in 1985. Lady Short Story Competition (The) Comment: The Lady, 39-40 Bedford Street, London WC2E 9ER Open to anyone, details are published in an issue of The Lady. First prize: £1000. No entry fee. Leica European Publishers Award (The) Tel: 0161-442 9450 Fax: 0161-442 9450 Email: mail@dewilewispublishing.com URL: www.dewilewispublishing.com, URL: www.europeanphotopublishers.eu Comment: Details Dewi Lewis Publishing, 8 Broomfield Road,Heaton Moor, Stockport SK4 4ND Annual competition for the best set of photographs suitable for publication as a book. All photographic material must be completed and unpublished in book form and be original. Projects conceived as anthologies are not acceptable. Copyright must belong to the photographer. Closing date: 31 January. Founded 1994. Leverhulme Research Fellowships Tel: 020-7822 6477 Fax: 020-7822 5084 Email: jcater@leverhulme.ac.uk URL: www.leverhulme.ac.uk Comment: The Leverhulme Trust, 1 Pemberton Row, London EC4A 3BG The Leverhulme Trustees offer annually approximately 90 Fellowships to individuals in aid of original research - not for study of any sort. These awards are not available as replacement for past support from other sources. Applications will be considered in all subject areas. Total monies for one fellowship for 2007 was £30,000. Completed application forms must be received by mid November 2008 for 2009 awards. Founded 1933. Llewellyn Rhys (John) Prize Tel: 020-8516 2972/2960 Fax: 020-8516 2978 Email: tarryn@booktrust.org.uk URL: helen@booktrust.org.uk Comment: Details Booktrust, Book House, 45 East Hill, London SW18 2QZ Contact Tarryn McKay, Helen Hayes This annual prize of £5000 (plus £500 to each shortlisted author) is made to an author aged 35 or under for a work of literature (fiction, poetry, drama, non-fiction, etc) which has been published in the UK during the calendar year of the prize. The author must be a citizen of the UK or the Commonwealth. The prize was inaugurated in memory of the writer John Llewellyn Rhys who died in the Second World War, by his widow Jane Oliver. Established 1942. London Press Club Awards Tel: 020-7353 7086 Fax: 020-7353 7087 Email: info@londonpressclub.co.uk URL: www.londonpressdub.co.uk Comment: Details Dr Mark Bryant, Hon. Secretary, London Press Club, St Bride Institute, 14 Bride Lane, Fleet Street, London EC4Y 8EQ Business Journalist of the Year, Consumer Affairs Journalist of the Year, Daily Newspaper of the Year, Sunday Newspaper of the Year and Broadcasting Journalist of the Year. Scoop of the Year Award Chosen by a panel of senior editors, this annual award of a bronze statuette is given for the reporting scoop of the year, appearing in a newspaper. Founded 1990. Edgar Wallace Award Chosen by a panel of senior editors, this annual award of a silver inkstand is given for outstanding writing or reporting by a journalist. Founded 1990. Longford Grants (The Elizabeth) Tel: 020-7373 6642 Fax: 020-7373 5768 Email: info@societyofauthors.org URL: www.societyofauthors.org Comment: Details Awards Secretary, The Society of Authors, 84 Drayton Gardens, London SW10 9SB Grants of £2500 are made payable to 2 historical biographers each year whose publisher's advance is insufficient to cover the costs of research involved. Send sae for information. Sponsored by Flora Fraser and Peter Soros. Entry dates: 30 April and 30 September. Longford Prize for Historical Biography (The Elizabeth) Tel: 020-7373 6642 Fax: 020-7373 5768 Email: info@societyofauthors.org URL: www.societyofauthors.org Comment: Details Awards Secretary, The Society of Authors, 84 Drayton Gardens, London SW10 9SB A prize of £3000 is awarded annually for a historical biography published in the year preceding the prize. No unsolicited submissions. Established in 2003 in affectionate memory of Elizabeth Longford, the acclaimed biographer, and sponsored by Flora Fraser and Peter Soros. Lyons Award (The Sir William) Tel: (01202) 518808 Fax: (01202) 518808 Email: chris@whizzco.ffeeserve.co.uk URL: www.guildofmotoringwriters.co.uk Comment: Details General Secretary, The Guild of Motoring Writers, 39 Beswick Avenue, Ensbury Park, Bournemouth BH22 OAG This annual award (trophy, £1500 and 2 years' probationary membership of the Guild of Motoring Writers) was set up to encourage young people in automotive journalism, including broadcasting, and to foster interest in motoring and the motor industry through these media. Open to any person of British nationality resident in the UK aged 17-23, it consists of writing 2 essays and an interview with the Award Committee. MacMahon (Bryan) Short Story Award Tel: (353) 6821074 Fax: (353) 6822893 Email: info@writersweek.ie URL: www.writersweek.ie Comment: Writers' Week, 24 The Square, Listowel, Co. Kerry, Republic of Ireland. An annual award for the best short story (up to 3000 words) on any subject. Prize: €2000. Entry fee: €10. Closing date: 3 March 2008. Founded 1971. Macmillan Prize for Children's Picture Book Illustration (The) Tel: 020-7014 6124 Email: d.pinner@macmillan.co.uk Comment: Applications Dianne Pinner, Macmillan Children's Books, 20 New Wharf Road, London Nl 9RR Three prizes are awarded annually for unpublished children's book illustrations by art students in higher education establishments in the UK. Prizes: £1000 (1st), £500 (2nd) and £250 (3rd). Man Booker International Prize Tel: 020-7631 2666 Email: pr@colmangetty.co.uk URL: www.manbookerinternational.com Comment: Colman Getty Consultancy, 28 Windmill Street, London WIT 2JJ Contact Lois Tucker A prize of £60,000 to complement the annual Man Booker Prize by recognising one writer's achievement in continued creativity, development and overall contribution to world fiction. It will be awarded once every 2 years to a living author who has published fiction either originally in English, or generally available in translation in the English language. The Man Booker International Prize will echo and reinforce the annual Man Booker Prize for Fiction in that literary excellence will be its sole focus. The winner will be announced in June. Sponsored by Man Group pic. Man Booker Prize Tel: 020-7631 2666 Email: pr@colmangetty.co.uk URL: www.themanbookerprize.com Comment: Colman Getty Consultancy, 28 Windmill Street, London WIT 2JJ Contact Lois Tucker This annual prize for fiction of £50,000, including £2500 to each of 6 shortlisted authors, is awarded to the best novel published each year. It is open to novels written in English by citizens of the British Commonwealth and Republic of Ireland and published for the first time in the UK by a British publisher, although previous publication of a book outside the UK does not disqualify it. Entries only from UK publishers who may each submit not more than 2 novels with scheduled publication dates between 1 October of the previous year and 30 September of the current year, but the judges may also ask for other eligible novels to be submitted to them. In addition, publishers may submit eligible titles by authors who have been shortlisted or won the Booker Prize previously. Sponsored by Man Group pic. Marsh Award for Children's Literature in Translation Tel: 020-8392 3008 Comment: Administered by National Centre for Research in Children's Literature, Digby Stuart College, Roehampton University, Roehampton Lane, London SW15 5PH. Contact Dr Gillian Lathey This biennial award of £1000 is given to the translator of a book for children (aged 4-16) from a foreign language into English and published in the UK by a British publisher. Electronic books, and encyclopedias and other reference books, are not eligible. Next award: January 2011. Marsh Biography Award Tel: 020-7529 1550 Fax: 020-7495 6108 Email: gillian_parker@esu.org Comment: Administered by The English-Speaking Union, Dartmouth House, 37 Charles Street, London WlJ 5ED This major national biography prize of £4000 plus a trophy is presented every 2 years. Entries must be serious biographies written by British authors and published in the UK. Next award: October 2009. Founded 1985-6. Masefield Memorial Trust (The John) Tel: 020-7373 6642 Fax: 020-7373 5768 Email: info@societyofauthors.org URL: www.societyofauthors.org Comment: Details Awards Secretary, The Society of Authors, 84 Drayton Gardens, London SW10 9SB This trust makes occasional grants to professional poets who find themselves with sudden financial problems. Apply for an information sheet and application form. Maugham Awards (The Somerset) Tel: 020-7373 6642 Fax: 020-7373 5768 Email: info@societyofauthors.org URL: www.societyofauthors.org Comment: Details Awards Secretary, The Society of Authors, 84 Drayton Gardens, London SW10 9SB These annual awards, totalling about £12,000, are for writers under the age of 35. Candidates must be British subjects by birth, and ordinarily resident in the UK or Northern Ireland. Poetry, fiction, non-fiction, belles-lettres or philosophy, but not dramatic works, are eligible. Entries should be submitted by the publisher. Closing date: 20 December. McKitterick Prize (The) Tel: 020-7373 6642 Email: info@societyofauthors.org URL: www.societyofauthors.org Comment: Details Awards Secretary, The Society of Authors, 84 Drayton Gardens, London SW10 9SB This annual award of £4000 is open to first published novels and unpublished typescripts by authors over the age of 40. Closing date: 20 December. Endowed by the late Tom McKitterick. Send sae for entry form. McLeod Literary Prize (The Enid) Tel: 020-7924 3511 Fax: 020-7924 3511 Email: francobritish@googlemail.com URL: www.francobritishsociety.org.uk Comment: Details Executive Secretary, Franco-British Society, 2 Dovedale Studios, 465 Battersea Park Road, London SW114LR This annual prize of £500 is given for a full-length work of literature which contributes most to Franco-British understanding. It must be first published in the UK between 1 January and 31 December, and written in English by a citizen of the UK, British Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland. Closing date: 31 December. Mind Book of the Year Tel: 020-7215 2300 Fax: 020-8522 1725 Comment: Details Anny Brackx, Information Department, Granta House, 15—19 Broadway, London E15 4BQ This £1500 award is given to the author of any book (fiction or non-fiction) published in the UK in the current year which outstandingly furthers public understanding of the prevention, causes, treatment or experience of mental health problems. Entries by 31 December. Administered by Mind, the National Association for Mental Health. Inaugurated in memory of Sir Allen Lane in 1981. Mitchell (Kathleen) Award Tel: (02) 9332 1559 Fax: (02) 9332 1298 Email: trustawards@cauzgroup.com.au URL: www.trust.com.au Comment: Postal address PO Box 777, Rondwick, NSW 2031, Australia. A biennial literary award ($7500) for authors under the age of 30 for the advancement and improvement of Australian literature. Eligible authors must be born in Australia or the UK and must have been resident in Australia for the 12 months preceeding close of entries, or be a naturalised Australian. Founded 1996. Montana New Zealand Book Awards Tel: (04) 478-5511 Fax: (04) 478-5519 Email: carmen.wilson@booksellers.co.nz URL: www.montananzbookawards.co.nz Comment: Details c/o Booksellers New Zealand, PO Box 13248, Johnsonville, Wellington, New Zealand. Annual awards to celebrate excellence in, and provide recognition for, the best books written and illustrated by New Zealanders each year. Awards are presented in 8 categories. The winner of each category wins $5000. Category winners are considered for the Montana Medal for Non-Fiction or the Montana Medal for Fiction or Poetry. Medal winners each receive an additional $10,000. Eligible authors' and illustrators' books must have been published in New Zealand in the calendar year preceding the awards year. Closing date: December. Founded 1996. National Poetry Competition Email: marketing@poetrysociety.org.uk URL: www.poetrysociety.org.uk Comment: Competition Organiser, The Poetry Society, 22 Betterton Street, London WC2H 9BX. Prizes 1st prize, £5000; 2nd prize, £1000; 3rd prize, £500 - plus 10 commendations of £50Qne 0r Britain's major annual open poetry competitions, ^oems on any theme, up to 40 lines. Prizes: 1st i5000, 2nd £1000,3rd £500, plus 10 commendations » £50. All poems will be read by a team of poetry wecialists before the final judging process. For rules and entry form send an sae. Entries also accepted via tte website. Closing date: 31 October each year. National Short Story Prize Email: hannah@booktrust.org.uk URL: www.theshortstory.org.uk/prizes Comment: Booktrust, Book House, 45 East Hill, London SW18 2QZ. Part of a new Booktrust campaign to celebrate short stories, a prize of £15,000 is awarded for the winning story plus £3000 for the runner-up and £500 for the 3 other shortlisted stories. This prize is a collaboration between NESTA (the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts), BBC Radio 4 and Prospect magazine. It is funded by NESTA and administered in conjunction with Booktrust and Scottish Booktrust. Closing date: November. Winner announced: April. Founded 2005. Nestle Children's Book Prize Tel: 020-8516 2972 Fax: 020-8516 2978 Email: hannah@booktrust.org.uk URL: www.booktrust.org.uk Comment: Booktrust, Book House, 45 East Hill, London SW18 2QZ Contact: Hannah Rutland Three prizes(Gold, Silver and Bronze) are awarded to the 3 shortlisted books in each category (5 and and under, 6-8 and 9—11 years). The Gold Award winners £2500, the Silver Award winners receive £1500, the Bronze Award winners receive £500. Eligible books must be published in the UK in the 12 months ending 30 September of the year of presentation and be a work of fiction or poetry for children written in English by a citizen or resident of the UK. Closing date for entries: June. Formerly the Noble Smarties Book Prize; established 1985. New Millennial Science Essay Competition Tel: 020 7611 7221 Fax: 020 7611 8269 Email: r.birse@wellcome.ac.uk URL: www.wellcome.ac.uk Comment: Booktrust, Book House, 45 East Hill, London SW18 2QZ Contact: Hannah Rutland Three prizes(Gold, Silver and Bronze) are awarded to the 3 shortlisted books in each category (5 and and under, 6-8 and 9—11 years). The Gold Award winners £2500, the Silver Award winners receive £1500, the Bronze Award winners receive £500. Eligible books must be published in the UK in the 12 months ending 30 September of the year of presentation and be a work of fiction or poetry for children written in English by a citizen or resident of the UK. Closing date for entries: June. Formerly the Noble Smarties Book Prize; established 1985. Deatils: The Wellcome Trust, 215 euston Road, London NW1 2BE. Postgraduate students (in science engineering or technology) currently writing up their theses are invited to write an entertaining essay on the possible impact of their research on society of no more than 700 words. The aim is to make the research topic interesting and accessible to a wider non-specia New Writer Prose and Poetry Prizes (The) Tel: (01580) 212626 Fax: (01580) 212041 Email: admin@thenewwriter.com URL: www.thenewwriter.com Comment: Details PO Box 60, Cranbrook, Kent TNI7 2ZR. Short stories up to 4000 words, novellas, essays and articles; poets may submit either one or a collection of 6-10 previously unpublished poems. Total prize money £2000 as well as publication for the prize¬winners in the New Writer magazine. Entry fees: £3 per poem; £10 for a collection of 6-10 poems. Send for an entry form or visit the website for information about the short fiction and non-fiction sections. Closing date: 30 November each year. Founded 1997. New Writers' Award Tel: 07771 756611 Email: normacurtisuk@yahoo.co.uk URL: www.rna-uk.org Comment: Details Norma Curtis,, Flat 2, 42 Lexham Gardens, London W8 5JE For writers previously unpublished in the adult novel field and who are probationary members of the Association. MSS can be submitted until the end of September under the New Writers' Scheme. All receive a critique. Any MSS which have passed through the Scheme and which are subsequently accepted for publication become eligible for the Award. New Writing Ventures Tel: 020-8516 2972 Email: tarryn@booktrust.org.uk URL: www.booktrust.org.uk, URL: www.newwritingpartnership.org.uk Comment: Details Booktrust, Book House, 45 East Hill, London SW18 2QZ Contact Tarryn MacKay An annual series of major national prizes and awards for emerging writers in poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction. The winner in each of the 3 categories will receive £3000 and a year of creative mentoring from The Literary Consultancy. The 2 shortlisted authors in each category will receive £1000 each. For more details on the mentoring, contact New Writing Partnership (a programme delivered by New Writing Partnership and supported by Arts Council England East, UEA, Norwich City Council and Norfolk County Council). Closing date: 31 May. New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children and Young Adults Tel: (04) 478-5511 Fax: (04) 478-5519 Email: holly.robinson@booksellers.co.nz URL: www.nzpostbookawards.co.nz Comment: Details c/o Booksellers New Zealand, PO Box 13248, Johnsonville, Wellington, New Zealand. Annual awards to celebrate excellence in, and provide recognition for, the best books for children and young adults published annually in New Zealand. Awards are presented in 4 categories: non-fiction, picture book, junior fiction and young adult fiction. The winner of each category wins $5000. One category winner is chosen as the New Zealand Post Book of the Year and receives an additional $5000. Eligible authors' and illustrators' books must have been published in New Zealand in the calendar year preceding the awards year. Closing date: December. Founded 1990. Nielsen Gold and Platinum Book Awards Tel: (01483) 712222 Fax: (01483) 712220 Email: gold&platinumawards@neilsenbookscan. co.uk Comment: The awards are a recognition of sales purchases of a book by the general public. Eligible books are those that reach 500,000 unit sales (Gold) or 1,000,000 unit sales (Platinum) as measured by Nielsen BookScan within a 5-year period. All qualifying titles may receive an award funded for the author by their publisher. Founded 2001. Nobel Prize in Literature Tel: (08) 555 12554 Fax: (08) 555 12549 Email: sekretariat@svenskaakademien.se URL: www.svenskaakademien.se Comment: Awarding authority Swedish Academy, Box 2118, S—10313 Stockholm, Sweden. This is one of the awards stipulated in the will of the late Alfred Nobel, the Swedish scientist who invented dynamite. No direct application for a prize will be taken into consideration. For authors writing in English. Northern Rock Foundation Writer's Award Tel: 0191-222 1332 Fax: 0191-222 1372 Email: mail@newwritingnorth.com URL: www.newwritingnorth.com Comment: Contact Holly Hooper Details New Writing North, Culture Lab, Grand Assembly Rooms, Newcastle University, King's Walk, Newcastle NE1 7RU An annual award of £60,000 (paid over 3 years as a £20,000 salary) donated by the Northern Rock Foundation and designed to release a writer from commitments such as teaching in order to devote time to a major work. Eligible are writers of poetry, prose, children's books and biography, with at least 2 books published by a nationally recognised publisher. Writers must reside in Northumberland, Tyne 8c Wear, County Durham, Cumbria or the Tees Valley. Closing date: early December. See website for more details. Founded 2000. Northern Writers' Awards Tel: 0191-222 1332 Fax: 0191-222 1372 Email: mail@newwritingnorth.com URL: www.newwritingnorth.com Comment: Contact Holly Hooper Details New Writing North, Culture Lab, Grand Assembly Rooms, Newcastle University, King's Walk, Newcastle NE1 7RU Awards (from £1000 to £5000) are aimed at developing writers at different stages in their careers. A panel of professional writers shortlists and makes awards once a year. Applicants must be resident in the Arts Council England North East region (Northumberland, Tyne & Wear, Durham, Tees Valley). See website for details. Deadline for applications: early December. Observer Hodge Award/Exhibition (The) Tel: 020-7713 4091 Email: hodge.award@observer.co.uk URL: wefaitewww.observer.co.uk/hodgeaward Comment: (01727) 898147 (application forms) Contact Catherine Stokes The Observer, 119 Farringdon Road, London EC 1R3ER Set up in memory of David Hodge who died aged this annual award is given to student and professi: photographers under 30. First prize: £5000 plus an expenses-paid assignment for the Observer, best student prize: £2000. Closing date: July. Founded 1986. Orange Award for New Writers Tel: 020-8516 2972/2960 Fax: 020-8516 2978 Email: tarryn@booktrust.org.uk URL: helen@booktrust.org.uk URL: www.orangeprize.co.uk Comment: Contacts Tarryn McKay, Helen Hayes Details Booktrust, Book House, 45 East Hill, London SW18 2QZ This annual award of £10,000 is given to real emerging female fiction-writing talent published the UK. The prize will be awarded to a woman for her first work of fiction - a novel, novella or collection of short stories. Women of any age or nationality may be entered providing their first work of fiction is published in the UK between 1 April the following 31 March. The emphasis of the award will be on emerging talent and the evidence of potential. Established 2005. Orange Prize for Fiction Tel: 020-8516 2972/2960 Fax: 020-8516 2978 Email: tarryn@booktrust.org.uk URL: helen@booktrust.org.uk URL: www.orangeprize.co.uk Comment: Contacts Tarryn McKay, Helen Hayes Details Booktrust, Book House, 45 East Hill, London SW18 2QZ This award of £30,000, and a statuette known as 'The Bessie', is for a full-length novel written in English by a woman of any nationality and first published in the UK between 1 April and 31 March the following year. Sponsored by Orange PCS. Established 1996. Orwell (George) Memorial Prize Tel: (01865) 776868 Fax: (01865) 714591 Comment: Details Blackwell Publishing, 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford OX4 2DQ Contact Lucie Crowther Two prizes of £1000 each are awarded in April each year - one for the best political book, and one for best political journalism, either fiction or non-fiction -of the previous year, giving equal merit to content and good style accessible to the general public. Founded 1993. Pepys Award (The Samuel) Comment: Details Jolyon Dromgoole, Chairman, Montreal House, Winson, Cirencester, Glos. GL7 5EL A biennial prize is given to a book published in English making the greatest contribution to the understanding of Samuel Pepys, his times, or his contemporaries. The winner receives £2000 and the Robert Latham Medal. Founded by the Samuel Pepys Award Trust in 2003 on the tercentenary of the death ef Pepys. Closing date: May 2009. Peterloo Poets Open Poetry Competition Tel: 01822 833473 Fax: 01822 833989 Email: info@peterloopoets.com URL: www.peterloopoets.com Comment: Details Peterloo Poets, The Old Chapel, Sand Lane, Calstock, Cornwall PL18 9QX This annual competition offers a first prize of £1500 and 113 other prizes totalling £2600. There is also a 15-19 age group section with 5 prizes each of £100. Founded 1986. Pick (Charles) Fellowship Tel: 01603 592286 Fax: 01603 507728 Email: Charlespickfellowship@uea.ac.uk URL: www.uea.ac.uk/eas/fellowships/pick.shtml Comment: School of Literature & Creative Writing, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ An annual fellowship to assist and support the work of a new and unpublished writer of fiction or non-fiction, dedicated to the memory of the distinguished publisher and literary agent, Charles Pick. Writers of any age or nationality are eligible to apply. The award is £10,000 plus accommodation on UEA campus. Residential: 1 Sept-end Feb. Closing date for applications: 31 January each year. Founded 2002. Poetry Business Book & Pamphlet Competition (The) Tel: 01484 434840 Fax: 01484 426566 Email: edit@poetrybusiness.co.uk URL: www.poetrybusiness.co.uk Comment: Competition Administrator The Poetry Business, The Studio, Byram Arcade, Westgate, Huddersfield HD1 1ND Directors Peter Sansom, Janet Fisher An annual award is made for a poetry collection. The judges select up to 5 short collections for publication as pamphlets; on further submission of more poems, one of these will be selected for a full-length collection. To be published under the Poetry Business's Smith/Doorstop imprint. All winners share a cash prize of £1000. Poets over the age of 18 writing in English from anywhere in the world are eligible. Closing date: 31 October. Founded 1986. Portico Prize (The) Tel: 0161-236 6785 Fax: 0161-236 6803 URL: www.theportico.org.uk Comment: Details Miss Emma Marigliano, Librarian, Portico Library, 57 Mosley Street, Manchester M2 3HY This biennial prize of £3000 is awarded for a published work of fiction or non-fiction, of general interest and literary merit set wholly or mainly in the North West of England (Lancashire, Manchester, Liverpool, High Peak of Derbyshire, Cheshire and Cumbria). Next award: 2010. Founded 1985. Potter (Dennis) Screenwriting Award Tel: 0117-973 2211 URL: www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom Comment: Details BBC Writersroom, 397-381 Euston Road, London NW1 3AU Information about this award is obtainable from the above office. Founded 1994. Prince Maurice Prize (Le) Tel: 0117-973 2211 URL: www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom Comment: Details BBC Writersroom, 397-381 Euston Road, London NW1 3AU Information about this award is obtainable from the above office. Founded 1994. Prince Maurice Prize (Le) Tel: 020-7631 2666 Fax: 020-7631 2699 Email: ruth@colemangetty.co.uk URL: www.colmangetty.co.uk Comment: Colman Getty Consultancy, 28 Windmill Street, London WIT 2JJ Contact Anna Mayall A prize for the best novel that takes as its theme the love between people in any of its myriad forms. It aims to reward not just the highest literary merit but emotional intelligence - writing which comes from the heart as well as the head. The winner receives the Prince Maurice Prize Trophy and an all-expenses paid 2-week writer's retreat at Le Prince Maurice (worth £12,500), a hotel in Mauritius, and the 3 shortlisted authors will be invited to spend a week as guest of the hotel while the judging process takes place. The prize is awarded to an English-speaking writer every second year, alternating with a French-speaking winner. Next English language prize: 2008. Founded 2002. Pritchett Memorial Prize (The V. S.) Tel: 020-7845 4676 Fax: 020-7845 4679 Email: info@rslit.org URL: www.rslit.org Comment: Details The Royal Society of Literature, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 1LA An annual prize of £1000 is awarded for a previously unpublished short story of up to 5000 words. Entry fee: £5 per story. For entry forms contact the Secretary. The writer must be a citizen of the UK, Commonwealth or Ireland. Founded 1999. Ramsay Foundation (The Peggy) Tel: 020-7667 5000 Fax: 020-7667 5100 Email: laurence.harbottle@harbottle.com URL: www.peggyramsayfoundation.org Comment: G. Laurence Harbottle, Hanover House, 14 Hanover Square, London WIS 1HP Grants are made to established writers of stage plays and to theatrical organisations to facilitate new writing for the stage. Awards are made at intervals during each year. A total of approx. £200,000 is expended annually. Founded 1992. Red House Children's Book Award (The) Tel: 01672 540629 Fax: 01672 541280 Email: marianneadey@aol.com URL: www.redhousechildrensbookaward.co.uk Comment: Details Marianne Adey, The Old Malt House, Aldbourne, Marlborough, Wilts. SN8 2DW This award is given annually to authors of works of fiction for children published in the UK. Children participate in the judging of the award. 'Pick of the Year' book list is published in conjunction with the award. Founded in 1980 by the Federation of Children's Book Groups. Reese (Trevor) Memorial Prize Tel: 020-7862 8829 Fax: 020-7862 8813 Email: ics@sas.ac.uk URL: www.commonwealth.sas.ac.uk Comment: Details Events and Publicity Officer, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, 28 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DS This prize of £1000 is awarded every 2 years to the author of a work which has made a wide-ranging, innovative and scholarly contribution in the broadly defined field of Imperial and Commonwealth History. The next award (for a book published in 2007 or 2008) will be given in 2010. Romantic Novel of the Year Award Tel: 07771 756611 Email: rmnaawardorganiser@hotmail.com URL: www.rna-uk.org Comment: Details Pia Tapper Fenton, Flat 2, 42 Lexham Gardens, London W8 5JE This annual award of £5000 for the best romantic novel of the year is open to both members and non-members of the Romantic Novelists' Association, provided non-members are domiciled in the UK. Novels must be published between the previous 1 December and 30 November of the year of entry. Four copies of the novel are required. Send sae for entry form and details, available from July onwards. Royal Mail Awards for Scottish Children's Books Tel: 0131-524 0160 Fax: 0131-524 0161 Email: anna.gibbons@scottishbooktrust.com URL: www.braw.org.uk Comment: Contact Anna Gibbons, Manager, BRAW Scottish Book Trust, Sandeman House, Trunk's Close, 55 High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1SR Awards totalling £15,000 are given to new and established authors of published books in recognition of high standards of writing for children in 3 age group categories: younger children (0-7 years), younger readers (8-11 years) and older readers (12-16 years), and in a new category for Gaelic Children's Book of the Year. A shortlist is drawn up by a panel of children's book experts and then a winner in each category is decided by children and young people by voting for their favourites in book groups in schools and libraries across Scotland. An award of £3000 is made for the winner in each category and £500 for runners up. Books published the preceding calendar year are eligible. Authors should be Scottish or resident in Scotland but books of particular Scottish interest by other authors are eligible for consideration. Posthumous awards can be made. Guidelines Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Awards (The) Tel: 020-7845 4676 Fax: 020-7845 4679 Email: paulaj@rslt.org URL: wvw.rslit.org Comment: Submissions Paula Johnson, The Royal Society of Literature, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 1LA New awards offering financial assistance to authors engaged in writing their first major commissioned works of non-fiction. Three awards - one of £10,000 and 2 of £5000 - will be offered annually to writers working on substantial non-fiction projects. The awards are open to UK and Irish writers and writers who have been resident in the UK for at least 3 years. Applications for the awards should be submitted by the end of August 2008. See website for further details. Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize (The) Tel: 020-7845 4676 Fax: 020-7845 4679 Email: paulaj@rsl.org URL: wvw.rslit.org Comment: Submissions Paula Johnson, The Royal Society of Literature, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 1LA This annual £10,000 award, administered by the Royal Society of Literature and endowed by Sir Christopher Ondaatje, is awarded to a book of literary merit, fiction, poetry or non-fiction, best evoking the spirit of a place. All entries must be published within the calendar year 2008 and should be submitted between 1 September and 1 December 2008. The writer must be a citizen of the UK, Commonwealth or Ireland. See website for further details. Royal Society Prizes for Science Books (The) Tel: 020-7451 2513 Fax: 020-7451 2693 Email: scott.keir@royalsoc.ac.uk URL: www.royalsoc.ac.uk Comment: Details The Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AG These annual prizes reward books that make science more accessible to readers of all ages and backgrounds. Prizes of up to a total of £30,000 are awarded in 2 categories: General (£10,000) for a book with a general readership; and Junior (£10,000) for a book written for people aged under 14. Up to 5 shortlisted authors in each category receive £1000. Eligible books should be written in English and first publication in the UK must have been between 1 January and 31 December each year. Seven copies of each entry should be supplied with a fully comleted entry form. Publishers may submit any number of books for each prize. Entries may cover any aspect of science and technology but educational textbooks published for professional or specialist audiences are not eligible. Founded 1988. RSPCA Young Photographer Awards (YPA) Tel: 0870 7540455 Fax: 0870 7530455 Email: publications@rspca.org.uk URL: www.rspca.org.uk/ypa Comment: Details: Publications Department, RSPA, Wilberforce Way, Southwater, Horsham, West Sussex RH13 9RS Annual awards are made for animal photographs taken by young people in 2 age categories: under 12 and 12-18 year-olds. Prizes: overall winner (high-end digital camera), age group winners (camera). Four runners-up in each age group receive a camera. Closing date for entries: 3 September 2007, 1 September 2008. Sponsored by Warners and Olympus Cameras. Founded 1990. RTÉ P.J. O'Connor Radio Drama Awards Tel: (01) 2083111 Fax: (01) 2083304 Email: radiodrama@rte.ie URL: www.rte.ie/radiol/drama Comment: RTÉ Radio Drama, Dublin 4, Republic of Ireland Producer in Charge Cathryn Brennan An annual competition for a 30-minute play open to writers with a maximum of one hour of professionally produced radio drama who are born or living in Ireland. See website for details. RTÉ Radio Francis McManus Awards Tel: (01) 2083111 Fax: (01) 2083304 Email: radiodrama@rte.ie URL: www.rte.ie/radiol/francismcmanus/ Comment: RTÉ Radio Drama, Dublin 4, Republic of Ireland Producer in Charge Seamus Hosey An annual competition for short stories of 1900-2000 words, open to writers born or living in Ireland. Entries, in Irish or English, should not have been previously published or broadcast. See website for details. Runciman Award Tel: 020-7486 9410 Fax: 020-7486 4254* Email: info@anglohellenicleague.org URL: www.anglohellenicleague.org Comment: Details The Administrator, The Anglo-Hellenic League, 16-18 Paddington Street, London W1U 5AS *mark FAO The Anglo-Hellenic League An annual award of £9000 to promote Anglo-Greek understanding and friendship. Works must be wholly or mainly about some aspect of Greece or the world of Hellenism, which has been published in English in any country in its first edition during the previous year. Shortlisted books must be available for purchase to readers in the UK at the time of the award ceremony. No category of writing will be excluded from consideration, e.g. history, literary studies, biography, travel and topography, the arts, architecture, archaeology, the environment, social and political sciences or current affairs; fiction, poetry or drama. Works in translation, with the exception of translations from Greek literature, will not be considered. Final entries: late January 2008; award presented in May/June. Sponsored by the National Bank of Greece and named after Sir Steven Runcim Saltire Society Awards Tel: 0131-556 1836 Fax: 0131-557 1675 Email: saltire@saltiresociety.org.uk URL: www.saltiresociety.org.uk Comment: The Saltire Society, 9 Fountain Close, 22 High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1TF Books published between 1 September and 31 August are eligible for the following awards: 'Scottish Book of the Year' An annual award of £5000 open to authors of Scottish descent or living in Scotland, or for a book by anyone which deals with a Scottish topic. Established 1982. 'Scottish First Book of the Year' An annual award of £1500 open to any author who has not previously published a book. Authors of Scottish descent or living in Scotland, or for any book which deals with the work or life of a Scot or with a Scottish problem, event or situation are eligible. Established 1988. 'Scottish Research Book Award' An annual award of £1500 is open to the authors of books which represent a significant body of research; offer new insight or dimension to the subject; and add knowledge and understanding of Scotland and the Scots. Established 1998. Scott Walwyn Prize (The Kim) Tel: 020-8516 2960 Fax: 020-8516 2978 Email: helen@booktrust.org.uk URL: www.booktrust.org Comment: Details Booktrust, Book House, 45 East Hill, London SW18 2QZ Contact Helen Hayes This biennual award is given to a woman who has made an outstanding contribution in any area of UK book publishing. It commemorates the life and career of Kim Scott Walwyn, publishing director at Oxford University Press until her death in 2002. Applicants are welcome from women of any age in any area of book publishing in the UK. Applicants should submit a written description of a particular achievement for which they wish to be recognised, or an aspect of their publishing career which merits recognition. Entries are encouraged by email, with any supporting material being posted to Booktrust. See website for full details. Closing date for applications: February 2009. The prize is funded by donations from Kim's family, colleagues, authors and friends. Scottish Arts Council Tel: 0131-226 6051 Email: gavin.wallace@scottisharts.org.uk URL: www.scottisharts.org.uk Comment: Scottish Arts Council, 12 Manor Place, Edinburgh EH3 7DD Contact Gavin Wallace, Head of Literature A limited number of writers' bursaries - up to £15,000 each - are offered to enable professional writers based in Scotland, including writers for children, to devote more time to writing. Priority is given to writers of fiction and verse and playwrights, but writers of literary non-fiction are also considered. Applications may be discussed with Gavin Wallace. See also Royal Mail Awards for Scottish Children's Books. 'Sundial Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year Awards' email aly.barr@scottishars.org.uk Contact Aly Barr, Literature Officer Scotland's largest literary prize, which recognises and rewards literary excellence and merit. There are 4 book awards, each worth £5000, selected at the end of March. They are: 'Sundial Scottish Arts Council Fiction Book of the Year', 'First Book of the Year', Non-fiction Book of the Year', and 'Poetry Book of the Year. The 4 category winning titles will be considered for the Book of the Year award and the winning title will be announced at the Edinburgh International Book Festival in August. Eligible books are those published for the first time between Jan. and Dec. 2008 and should be submitted by 31st. January 2009. There is more pertinent information on the SAC website. However, no authors can submit books, only publishers. Shell Wildlife Photographer of the Year Tel: 020 7942 5015 Fax: 020 7942 5084 Email: wildphoto@nhm.co.uk URL: www.nhm.ac.uk/wildphoto Comment: Details The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD 3m annual award given to the photographer whose individual image is judged to be the most striking and memorable. The overall adult winner receives £10,OOO. The Shell Young Wildlife Photographer of The Year receives £500, plus a day out with a photographer. Open to all ages. Closing date: 30 March 2009. Simon (André) Memorial Fund Book Tel: 01225 336395 Fax: 01255 421862 Email: katie@andresimon.co.uk Comment: Details: Katie Lander, 1 Westbourne Gardens, Glasgow G12 9XE Celebrating excellent new writing in the fields of food and drink. Two awards of £2000 are given annually, one each for the best new books on food and on drink. There is also a Special Commendation of £1000 in either category. All works first published in the calendar year of the award are eligible (publisher entry only). Closing date: November each year, Awards are given in the spring of the following year, founded 1978. Smythies Award (The Jill) Tel: 020 7434 4479 Fax: 020 7287 9364 Email: adrian@linnean.org URL: www.linnean.org Comment: The Linnean Society of London, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J OBF. Established in honour of Jill Smythies whose career as a botannical artist was cut short by an accident to her right hand. The rubic states that 'the Award, to be made by Council usually annually consisting of a silver medal and a purse ... is for published illustrations, such as drawings and paintings, in aid of plant identification, with the emphasis on botanical accuracy and the accurate portrayal of diagnostic characteristics. Illustrations of cultivars of garden origin are not eligible.' Closing date for nominations: 15 October. Founded 1988. Society of Authors and The Royal Society of Medicine Medical Book Awards (The) Tel: 020-7373 6642 Email: info@societyofauthors.org URL: www.societyofauthors.org Comment: Details The Secretary, Medical Book Awards, The Society of Authors, 84 Drayton Gardens, London SW10 9SB Entries should be submitted by the publisher. Closing date for submissions of medical text books: 20 April. The Society of Authors administers the prizes sponsored by the Royal Society of Medicine. Sony Radio Academy Awards Tel: 020-7723 010 Fax: 020-7724 6163 Email: info@radioawards.org URL: www.radioawards.org Comment: Details Sony Radio Academy Awards Secretariat, 47-48 Chagford Street, London NW1 6EB 'The Sony Radio Academy Awards celebrate excellence in broadcast work. They reward creative achievement through imagination, originality, wit and integrity. The Awards offer an opportunity to enter work in a range of categories which reflect today's local, regional and national radio. The Awards are for everyone regardless of resources - for stations big and small, for a team or for one person with a microphone.' See website for further information. Founded 1982. Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award (The) Tel: 020-7373 6642 Email: info@societyofauthors.org URL: www.societyofauthors.org Comment: Details The Society of Authors, 84 Drayton Gardens, London SW10 9SB Annual award to published fiction and non-fiction writers under the age of 35. The panel consists of Sunday Times journalists and critics. Entry by publishers. Closing date: 31 October. Established 1991. Syngenta ABSW Science Writers' Awards Email: sciencewritersawards@clairejowett.com URL: www.absw.org.uk Comment: Details Claire Jowett, Association of British Science Writers, 58 Greenhill Road, Moseley, Birmingham B13 9SS The Association of British Science Writers (ABSW) exists to improve the standard of science journalism in the UK, and to help those who write about or broadcast science and technology stories. The ABSW awards seek to set standards of excellence in science writing and are given to the writers and broadcasters who, in the opinion of an independent judging panel, have produced the highest quality science journalism each year. There are 8 categories, each worth £2000 for work published between 1 January and 31 December each year. There is also an award for Parliamentary Science Communicator of the Year and the New Voice Award for a young broadcaster under the age of 30. Closing date: 31 January. Founded 1966. Tait Black Memorial Prizes (The James) Tel: 0131-650 3619 Fax: 0131-650 6898 URL: www.englit.ed.ac.uk/jtbinf.htm Comment: Submissions Department of English Literature, David Hume Tower, George Square,Edinburgh EH8 9JX Two prizes of £10,000 are awarded annually: one for the best biography or work of that nature, the other for the best novel, published during the calendar year 1 January to 31 December. The adjudicator is the Professor of English Literature in the University of Edinburgh. Eligible novels and biographies are those written in English and first published or co-published in Britain in the year of the award. Both prizes may go to the same author, but neither to the same author a second time. Publishers should submit a copy of any appropriate biography, or work of fiction, as early as possible with a note of the date of publication, marked 'James Tait Black Prize'. Closing date for submissions: 31 January. Founded in memory of a partner in the publishing house of A&C Black, these prizes were instituted in 1918. TAPS (Training and Performance Showcase) Tel: 01932 592151 Fax: 01932 592233 Email: admin@tapsnet.org URL: www.tapsnet.org Comment: Details Shepperton Studios, Studios Road, Shepperton, Middlesex TW17 0QD A national scheme to train and promote new writers for film and TV. TAPS workshop training courses are open to any British scriptwriter with less than 2 hours work broadcast on network TV. Full-length drama (min. 60 mins), comedy (30 mins) or shorts (10 mins) will be accepted as qualifying script submissions for the appropriate course. Scripts selected from each course are showcased by professional actors, taped and screened to industry executives culminating in the annual Writer of the Year Awards. Taylor (Reginald) and Lord Fletcher Essay Competition Email: jsmcneill@btinternet.com Comment: Submissions John McNeill, Hon. Secretary, British Archaeological Association, 18 Stanley Road, Oxford OX4 1QZ A prize of a medal and £300 is awarded biennially for the best unpublished essay of high scholarly standard, not exceeding 7500 words, which shows original research on a subject of archaeological, art-historical or antiquarian interest within the period from the Roman era to AD 1830. The successful competitor will be invited to read the essay before the Association and the essay may be published in the Association's 'Journal'. Competitors should notify the Hon. Editor in advance of the intended subject of their work. Next award: autumn 2010. The essay should be submitted not later than 30 April 2010, enclosing an sae. Founded in memory of E. Reginald Taylor FSA and Lord Fletcher FSA. The Tom-Gallon Trust Award and the Olive Cook Prize Tel: 020 7373 6642 Email: info@societyofauthors.org URL: www.societyofauthors.com Comment: Details Awards Secretary, The Society of Authors,84 Drayton Gardens, London SW10 9SB An award of £1000 is made on the basis of a submitted short story to fiction writers of limited means who have had at least one short story accepted for publication. Both awards are biennial and are awarded in alternate years. Send sae for entry form. Closing date: 31 October each year. The V&A Illustration Awards Tel: 020-7942 2291 Fax: 020-7942 2291 Email: villa@vam.ac.uk URL: www.vam.ac.uk/illustrationawards Comment: Enquiries The Word & Image Dept, Victoria 8c Albert Museum, London SW7 2RL Contact Martin Flynn These annual awards are given to practising book and magazine illustrators, for work first published in the UK during the 12 months preceding the closing date of the awards. A 1st and 2nd prize winner will be chosen from the following 3 award categories: book illustration, book cover and jacket illustration, and newspaper, magazine and comic illustration. Of the 3 category winners, one will be selected to receive £3500 as the best overall illustration and the other 2 winners will each receive £1500. The 3 second prize winners will each be awarded £750. Closing date late July/early August. Also a Student Illustrator of the Year category: 1st prize winner will receive £1300 and 4 runners up will receive £300. Closing date: May. Thomas (Dylan) Literary Prize Tel: 01792 474051/463980 URL: www.dylanthomasprize.com Comment: The Dylan Thomas Centre, Ty Lien, Somerset Place, Swansea SA1 1RR An award of £60,000 is given to the winner of this prize, which was established to encourage, promote and reward exciting new writing in the English-speaking world and to celebrate the poetry and prose of Dylan Thomas. Entrants should be the author of a published book (in English), under the age of 30 writing within one of the following categories: novel, collection of short stories by one author, play that has been professionally performed, a broadcast radio play, a professionally produced screenplay that has resulted in a feature-length film. Authors need to be nominated by their publishers, or producers in the case of performance art. Closing date: May. Tir Na N-og Awards Tel: 01970 624151 Fax: 01970 625385 Email: menna.lloydwilliams@cllc.org.uk URL: www.cllc.org.uk Comment: Welsh Books Council, Castell Brychan,s Aberystwyth, Ceredigion SY23 2JB Established with the intention of raising the standard of children's and young people's books published during the year, and to encourage the buying! reading of good books. Three awards are presented annually: 1. The best English-language book of the year with an authentic Welsh background. Fiction and factual books originally in English are eligible; translation from Welsh or any other language are not eligible. Prize: £1000. 2. Welsh-language books aimed at the primary sector. Prize £1000. 3. Welsh-language books aimed at the secondary sector. Prize: £1000. Sponsored by the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professional and the Welsh Books Council. Founded 1976. Tranlators Association Awards (The) Tel: 020 7373 6642 Email: info@societyofauthors.org URL: www.societyofauthors.com Comment: Details Awards Secretary, The Society of Authors,84 Drayton Gardens, London SW10 9SB The Translators Association of the Society of Authors administers a number of prizes for published translations into English. They include prizes for translations of Arabic, Dutch and Flemish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish works. Entries should be submitted by the publisher. Trask Awards (The Betty) Tel: 020 7373 6642 Email: info@societyofauthors.org URL: www.societyofauthors.com Comment: Details Awards Secretary, The Society of Authors,84 Drayton Gardens, London SW10 9SB The Awards are for the benefit of young authors under the age of 35 and are given on the strength of a first novel (published or unpublished) of a romantic or traditional nature. It is expected that prizes totalling £25,000 will be presented each year. The winners are required to use the money for a period or periods of foreign travel. Send sae for entry form. Closing date 31 January. Made possible through a bequest from Miss Betty Trask. Travelling Scholarships (The) Tel: 020 7373 6642 Email: info@societyofauthors.org URL: www.societyofauthors.com Comment: Details Awards Secretary, The Society of Authors,84 Drayton Gardens, London SW10 9SB These are Honorary Awards established in 1944 by an anonymous benefactor. Submissions are not accepted. Tripp (John) Award for Spoken Poetry Tel: 029-2047 2266 Fax: 029-2049 2930 Email: post@academi.org URL: www.academi.org Comment: Academi, Mount Stuart House, Mount Stuart Square, Cardiff CF10 5FQ Contact Peter Finch, Chief Executive A competition for any form of spoken poetry in the English language. There are 5 regional heats around Wales, with the winners from each heat going forward to a Grand Final. Performers have 5 minutes to read their work at each stage of the competition and are judged on the content of their poetry and their performance skills. Anyone either born or currently living in Wales is eligible to enter, and all works must be unpublished. Founded 1990. Ver Poets Open Competition Tel: 01727 762601 Email: gillknibbs@yahoo.co.uk URL: www.verpoets.org.uk Comment: Competition Secretary Gill Knibbs, 181 Sandridge Road, St Albans, Herts. AL1 4AH A competition open to all for poems of up to 30 lines of any genre or subject matter, which must be unpublished work in English. Prizes: £500 (1st), £300 (2nd), £100 (3rd). Entry fee: £3 per poem or £10 for 4. Send 2 copies of each poem with no name or address; either put address on separate sheet or send sae or email for entry form. Closing date: 30 April. Anthology of winning and selected poems with Adjudicator's Report usually available from mid-June, free to those included. See website for details. Watt (David) Prize Tel: 020-7753 2316 Email: davidwattprize@riotinto.com URL: www.riotinto.com Comment: Details/entry form The Administrator, The David Watt Prize, Rio Tinto pic, 6 St James's Square, London SW1Y 4LD An annual award (£10,000) initiated to commemorate the life and work of David Watt. Open to writers currently engaged in writing for English language newspapers and journals on international and national affairs. The winner is judged as having made 'an outstanding contribution towards the greater understanding of national, international or global issues'. Entries must have been published during the year preceding the award. Final entry date: 31 March. Welsh National Literature Promotion Agency and Society for Writers (The) Tel: 029-2047 2266 Fax: 029-2049 2930 Email: post@academi.org URL: www.academi.org Comment: Academi, Mount Stuart House, Mount Stuart Square, Cardiff CF10 5FQ Contact Peter Finch, Chief Executive Book of the Year Award A £10,000 prize is awarded to winners, in Welsh and English, for works of exceptional merit by Welsh authors (by birth, subject matter or residence) published during the previous calendar year in the categories of poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction. Bursaries Bursaries totalling about £100,000 are awarded annually to authors writing in both Welsh and English. Application forms are available or visit the website. Whitfield Prize (The) Tel: 020-7387 7532 Fax: 020-7387 7532 Email: royalhistsoc@ucl.ac.uk, rhs.info@sas.ac.uk URL: www.rhs.ac.uk Comment: Submissions Executive Secretary, Royal Historical Society, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT The Prize (value £1000) is announced in July each year for the best work on a subject within a field of British or Irish history. It must be its author's first solely written history book, an original and scholarly work of historical research and have been published in the UK or Republic of Ireland in the preceding calendar year. One non-returnable copy of an eligible book should be submitted before 31 December to the Executive Secretary. Should the book be shortlisted, 2 further copies will be required. Winchester Writers' Conference Competitions Tel: 01962 827238 Email: barbara.large@winchester.ac.uk URL: www.writersconference.co.uk Comment: Faculty of Arts, University of Winchester, Winchester, Hants S022 4NR Contact Barbara Large Fifteen writing competitions are attached to this major international Festival of Writing, which takes place at the end of June. Each entry is adjudicated and 64 sponsored prizes are presented at the Writers' Awards Dinner. Categories are the First Three Pages of the Novel, Short Stories, Shorter Short Stories, Writing for Children, A Page of Prose, Lifewriting, Slim Volume, Small Edition, Poetry, Feature Articles, Retirement, Reaching Out for disabled writers, Local History, and Young Writers' Poetry Competition. Deadline for entries 7 June 2008. Wolfson Foundation (The) Tel: 020-7323 5730 ext. 2 Fax: 020-7323 3241 Comment: Details The Prize Administrator, The Wolfson Foundation, 8 Queen Anne Street, London WIG 9LD Annual awards are made to encourage and recognise books by British historians that can be enjoyed by a general readership and will stimulate public interest in history. The awards total up to £30,000. Authors must be British citizens and normally resident in the UK. The book must be published in the calendar year of the prize. Closing date: January following the prize year. Founded 1972. Wong (David T.K.)Fellowship Tel: 020-7323 5730 ext. 2 Fax: 020-7323 3241 Comment: Details The Prize Administrator, The Wolfson Foundation, 8 Queen Anne Street, London WIG 9LD Annual awards are made to encourage and recognise books by British historians that can be enjoyed by a general readership and will stimulate public interest in history. The awards total up to £30,000. Authors must be British citizens and normally resident in the UK. The book must be published in the calendar year of the prize. Closing date: January following the prize year. Founded 1972. Wong (David T.K.)Fellowship Tel: 01603 592286 Fax: 01603 507728 Email: davidtkwongfellowship@uea.ac.uk URL: www.uea.ac.uk/eas/fellowships/wong/ wong.shtml Comment: Details School of Literature and Creative Writing, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ This annual fellowship (award £25,000) at the University of East Anglia will give a writer of exceptional talent the chance to produce a work of fiction in English which deals seriously with some aspect of life in the Far East. Writers of any age or nationality are eligible to apply. Residential: 1 October-30 June. Closing date for applications: January each year. Founded in 1997 by Mr David Wong, retired senior civil servant, journalist and businessman. Write A Story for Children Competition Tel: 01487 832752 URL: www.childrens-writers.co.uk Comment: Entry forms The Academy of Children's Writers, PO Box 95, Huntingdon, Cambs. PE28 5RL Three prizes (1st £2000, 2nd £300, 3rd £200) are awarded annually for a short story for children,maximum 1000 words, by an unpublished writer children's fiction. Send sae for details or see website. Founded 1984. Writers' & Artists' Yearbook 2008 Hog Writing Competition URL: www.writersandartists.co.uk Comment: See website for details. Writers' Week Poetry Competition Tel: (353) 6821074 Fax: (353) 6822893 Email: info@writersweek.ie URL: www.writersweek.ie Comment: Details Writers' Week, 24 The Square, Listowel, COL Kerry, Republic of Ireland. Annual awards for a single poem of not more than 70 lines (prize: €700; entry fee: €10) and for a collection of 12 poems (prize: €700 plus financial support towards publication of a slim volume; entry fee: €25). Closing date 3 March 2009. Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Comment: Submissions & Correspondence Duncan Hamilton, Deputy Editor, Yorkshire Post Newspapers Ltd,PO Box 168, Wellington Street, Leeds LSI 1RF There are 3 awards: Yorkshire Post Non-fiction Award (£1200), Yorkshire Post Fiction Award (£1200) and Yorkshire Post Award for Best Book with a Yorkshire Theme (£500). Young Writers' Programme Tel: 020-7565 5050 Fax: 020-7565 5001 Email: ywp@royalcourttheatre.com URL: www.royalcourttheatre.com Comment: Details Young Writers' Programme, Royal Court Young Writers' Programme, Sloane Square, London SW1W 8AS Anyone aged 13-25 can submit a play on any subject. A selection of plays are professionally presented by the Royal Court Theatre with the writers fully involved in rehearsal and production. Pre-Festival Development Workshops are run by professional theatre practitioners and designed to help everyone attending to write a play. Playwriting projects run all year round. 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