The 2024 winners’ ceremony for the Society of Authors’ basket of awards is to return to Southwark Cathedral later this month.
The UK’s Ondaatje Prize Announces Its 2024 Shortlist
The 20th anniversary Ondaatje Prize for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that ‘evok[es] the spirit of place’ announces its 2024 shortlist.
PEN America Cancels Awards Ceremony Amid Gaza Crisis
PEN America cancels its Literary Awards ceremony, as nearly half the 61 finalists withdraw over PEN’s response to the Palestinian emergency.
The UK’s Ondaatje Prize: A 2024 Longlist
The 20th anniversary Ondaatje Prize for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that ‘evok[es] the spirit of place’ announces its 2024 longlist.
London: Tom Crewe Wins the Sunday Times’ Young Writer Award
Jury comments about the Sunday Times Young Writer-winning debut, ‘The New Life,’ call Tom Crewe’s book, a ‘tenderly sensual account of masculine sexuality.’
At London Book Fair: Writers’ Prize Names Its Winners
At London Book Fair, the top honor from the Writers’ Prize, formerly the Rathbones, goes to Liz Berry for ‘The Home Child.’
UK: The Sunday Times Young Writer 2024 Shortlist
Praising ‘their attentiveness to the world,’ the 2024 Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year jury names four authors to its shortlist.
US National Book Awards: Opening to Non-US Citizens
The National Book Awards now accept submissions by authors who are not US citizens ‘to celebrate the widest possible array of voices.’
Scotland’s Highland Book Prize Names a 2023 Longlist
Established in 2017, the Highland Book Prize is one of the United Kingdom’s younger awards programs.
In England: The Writers’ Prize, Formerly Rathbones, Shortlist
The former Rathbones Folio Prize, continuing its search for sponsorship, releases nine shortlisted titles in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.