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In 2023 it was announced that a sister prize, the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction, would be awarded for the first time in 2024, with a £30,000 prize which for the first three years would be funded by the Charlotte Aitken Trust, who would also supply the winner's statuette, "The Charlotte". [19]
The Women's Prize for Fiction (previously called Orange Prize for Fiction (1996–2006 & 2009–12), Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction (2007–2008) and Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction (2014–2017)) is one of the United Kingdom's most prestigious literary prizes, [4] [5] [6] annually awarded to a female author of any nationality for the best original full-length novel written in English ...
Last year, Barbara Kingsolver became the first person to win the award twice with her novel Demon Copperhead. One of 2024’s shortlisted authors, Kate Grenville, previously won the Prize (then ...
The first longlist for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction, of 16 titles, was announced on 15 February 2024. [8] The Guardian noted that the subject matter of the longlisted books included "Capitalism, artificial intelligence, Renaissance history and motherhood". [9] The shortlist was announced on 27 March 2024 and the winner on 13 June 2024. [7]
Shortlist for the prestigious literary prize features the largest number of women it its 55-year history ... The winner of the 2024 Booker Prize will be announced on Tuesday 12 November, and will ...
[2] [3] Her first novel, The Maiden, won her the 2023 Scottish Crime Debut of the Year [4] and was longlisted for the 2024 Women's Prize for Fiction. [5] Foster describes it as "a feminist retelling of a 17th century Edinburgh murder", [1] and it concerns the murder of Lord James Forrester by Lady Christian Nimmo in Corstorphine in 1679. [6]
Commonwealth Short Story Prize, for unpublished short fiction (2,000–5,000 words) SI Leeds Literary Prize, for unpublished fiction (more than 30,000 words) by Black and Asian women in the UK; Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize, judged in three categories: fiction, poetry, and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
In 2019, Keel co-founded the Women's Prize for Playwriting with Paines Plough to champion female and non-binary playwrights in the UK and Ireland. The prize launched later the same year. The prize launched later the same year. Past winners have included Amy Trigg (2020) and Sarah Grochala (2023).