The Betty Trask Prize and Awards
Betty Trask left a bequest to the Society of Authors in 1983 to fund a prize for first novels written by authors under the age of 35 in a romantic or traditional, but not experimental, style.
- The prize money, which totals £20,000, must be used for foreign travel
- The prize is open to published and unpublished novels
- The annual deadline for entries is 30 November
- The application form for the 2014 prize will be available to download shortly
The 2013 Prize (£8,000)
Grace McCleen for The Land of Decoration (Chatto and Windus).
Judges: Elizabeth Buchan, Peter Kemp and Fay Weldon.
The 2013 Awards
Chibundu Onuzo for The Spider King's Daughter (Faber) received £7,000, Francesca Segal for The Innocents (Chatto and Windus) received £2,500, and Will Wiles for Care of Wooden Floors (Fourth Estate). Each received £2,500.
Judges: Elizabeth Buchan, Peter Kemp and Fay Weldon.
Pictured above, left to right: Chibundu Onuzo, Will Wiles and Francesca Segal.
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