List of British literary awards
This is a list of British literary awards.
Current awards
[edit]Literature in general
[edit]- Barbellion Prize, for ill and disabled writers
- Bristol Festival of Ideas Book Prize, for a book which "presents new, important and challenging ideas"
- British Book Awards, the "Nibbies" (formerly the Galaxy National Book Awards)
- International Rubery Book Award
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize
- Jhalak Prize
- John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
- Ondaatje Prize
- Orwell Prize
- Portico Prize, for literature that "evokes the spirit of the North"
- Scotland's National Book Awards (formerly the Saltire Society Literary Awards)
- Somerset Maugham Award
- Wales Book of the Year
- Warwick Prize for Writing
- Wellcome Book Prize
Fiction
[edit]- Bath Novel Award
- Bridport Prize
- Booker Prize (formerly the Man Booker Prize)
- Goldsmiths Prize
- Grindstone International Novel Prize
- Hawthornden Prize
- Republic of Consciousness Prize for small presses
- The Writers' Prize (formerly known as Rathbones Folio Prize)
- Women's Prize for Fiction (formerly, Orange Prize for Fiction)
First novel
[edit]- Authors' Club Best First Novel Award
- Betty Trask Prize and Awards
- Desmond Elliott Prize
- Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize
Humour
[edit]- Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize
- Comedy Women in Print Prize, the UK and Ireland's first comedy literary prize for women writers
Crime fiction
[edit]- CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger, for a thriller
- CWA International Dagger, for a translated crime novel
- CWA New Blood Dagger, for a debut crime novel
- Dagger in the Library, for a crime writer, chosen by librarians
- Gold Dagger, for a crime novel
- McIlvanney Prize, for a Scottish crime novel
- Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award
Speculative fiction
[edit]Historical fiction
[edit]Young adult and children fiction
[edit]- Bath Children's Novel Award
- Branford Boase Award
- Stockport Children's Book Awards
Poetry
[edit]- Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize
- Arvon International Poetry Prize
- Bridport Poetry Prize
- Cholmondeley Award
- Christopher Tower Poetry Prizes
- Eric Gregory Award
- Forward Prizes for Poetry
- Gaisford Prize
- Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize
- Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine
- International Book & Pamphlet Competition
- Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets
- National Poetry Competition
- New Poets Prize
- Newdigate Prize
- Poetry Book Awards
- Poetry London Prize
- King's Gold Medal for Poetry
- T. S. Eliot Prize
- Ted Hughes Award
- Welsh Poetry Competition
Non-fiction
[edit]- Alan Ball Local History Awards
- Baillie Gifford Prize
- Bread and Roses Award, for radical, left-wing writing
- British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding
- CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction, for a work of crime non-fiction
- Duff Cooper Prize
- Hessell-Tiltman Prize, for a work of historical content and high literary merit
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize, for biography
- Orwell Prize for Political Writing
- Royal Society Insight investment Science Book Prize for popular science
- Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize, for biography or memoir
- Wainwright Prize, for outdoors, nature, UK-based travel writing
- Whitfield Book Prize, for history
- William Hill Sports Book of the Year
- Wolfson History Prize
Other
[edit]- The Barker Book Awards
- Brunel University African Poetry Prize
- Caine Prize for African Fiction
- Commonwealth Short Story Prize, for unpublished short fiction (2,000–5,000 words)
- SI Leeds Literary Prize, for unpublished fiction (more than 30,000 words) by Black and Asian women in the UK
- Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize, judged in three categories: fiction, poetry, and life writing; open to anyone who has not published a complete book
Discontinued
[edit]Literature
[edit]- Costa Book Awards (discontinued)
Fiction
[edit]- Commonwealth Writers Prize (discontinued)
- Dundee International Book Prize (discontinued)
- Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize (discontinued)
- Ruth Hadden Memorial Award (discontinued)
- WH Smith Literary Award (discontinued)
- Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize (discontinued)
First novel
[edit]Speculative fiction
[edit]- Kitschies (discontinued)
Nonfiction
[edit]- NCR Book Award (discontinued)
See also
[edit]- List of literary awards
- British literature
- English literature
- Scottish literature
- Welsh-language literature
- Welsh literature in English
- List of years in literature
- List of years in poetry