List of British literary awards

This is a list of British literary awards.

Current awards

Literature in general

• 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

• 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

• Authors' Club Best First Novel Award
• Betty Trask Prize and Awards
• Desmond Elliott Prize
• Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize

Humour

• Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize
• Comedy Women in Print Prize, the UK and Ireland's first comedy literary prize for women writers

Crime fiction

• 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

• Arthur C. Clarke Award
• British Fantasy Award
• BSFA Awards
• David Gemmell Awards for Fantasy

Historical fiction

• Walter Scott Prize

Young adult and children fiction

• Bath Children's Novel Award
• Branford Boase Award
• Stockport Children's Book Awards

Poetry

• 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

• 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

• 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

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Literature

• Costa Book Awards (discontinued)

Fiction

• 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

• Guardian First Book Award
• Waverton Good Read Award

Speculative fiction

• Kitschies (discontinued)

Nonfiction

• NCR Book Award (discontinued)

See also

• 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

References