An accolade just in time for author Patricia Lockwood: she’s now 40, no longer eligible to be proposed for a Dylan Thomas Prize.
Awards: Cal Flyn Wins the £10,000 Young Writer of the Year Honor
Frequently given shortlist and longlist attention, Cal Flyn’s socio-ecological study ‘Islands of Abandonment’ wins Young Writer of the Year.
Awards: The UK’s Sunday Times Young Writer Award Names Its 2021 Shortlist
The shortlist for the 2021 Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Trust award includes poetry, nonfiction, and three novels.
London’s Young Writer Award of the Year Names Its Jurors
The updated schedule for the United Kingdom’s Young Writer of the Year Award will put its shortlist and winners’ announcements into the new year.
Newberry Library Announces a $25,000 Chicago-Specific Book Award
The new award, with its inaugural presentation set for next summer, is open to submissions both in fiction and nonfiction.
In the States, the Young Lions Fiction Award Goes to Catherine Lacey
A book the jury says ‘challenges us to interrogate what we see when it pertains to sex and gender, ‘Pew’ has drawn a lot of award attention.
The UK’s Young Writer Award Gains Charlotte Aitken Trust Sponsorship
The Young Writer Award led by the Sunday Times in the United Kingdom now is sponsored by the Charlotte Aitken Trust.
The UK’s Sunday Times Names Jay Bernard Young Writer of the Year
Open to writers under 35, the 2020 UK Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year honor goes to poet Jay Bernard for the collection ‘Surge.’
The UK’s Sunday Times Young Writer Award Names Its 2020 Shortlist
The quintet of books named to the UK Young Writer of the Year award shortlist this year includes memoir, novels, and poetry collections.
Award Notes: New York Public Library’s ‘Young Lions’ Finalists Named
The program Ethan Hawke and others co-founded to honor published authors aged 35 and younger now is in its 20th year, a winner to be named in the fall.