The winners of the United States’ ‘5 Under 35’ honors are 34 or younger and are chosen by selectors for the National Book Foundation.
In Wales, Swansea University’s Dylan Thomas Prize: The 2023 Shortlist
Work from Australia, Nigeria, the Republic of Ireland, the United Kingdom, and Somalia is on the Dylan Thomas Prize 2023 shortlist.
Tom Benn Wins England’s Young Writer of the Year Award
The £10,000 Young Writer of the Year award from the UK’s Sunday Times goes to Tom Benn for his fourth novel, ‘Oxblood.’
England’s Young Writer of the Year Award Names Its Shortlist
This four-title shortlist for the Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Trust Young Writer of the Year Award is to yield a winner by mid-March.
Wales’ Dylan Thomas Prize Names Patricia Lockwood its 2022 Winner
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.