The Authors' Awards

 
The Authors' Awards honour new and established writers of fiction, non-fiction and poetry and are worth over £76,000 in prize money.

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• The Cholmondeley Awards totalling £8,000 are awarded annually to honour distinguished poets. Submissions are not accepted.
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• The Tom-Gallon Trust Award: A biennial prize of £1,000 for a short story. Published and unpublished stories may be entered.
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• The Eric Gregory Awards totalling £24,000 each year are awarded to British poets under the age of 30 on the basis of a submitted collection. Published and unpublished collections may be entered.
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• The Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography is a prize of £5,000 for the best published historical biography of the year. No unsolicited submissions are accepted.
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• The Somerset Maugham Awards totalling £12,000 are awarded to British authors under the age of 35 for a published work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry. Entry is by the publisher.
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• The McKitterick Prize of £4,000 is awarded for a first novel by an author over the age of 40. The prize is open to published and unpublished novels.
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• The Betty Trask Prize and Awards totalling £20,000 are awarded to authors under the age of 35 for a first novel, published or unpublished.
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• The Travelling Scholarships are honorary awards made annually to British writers. Submissions are not accepted.
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• The ELT Writing Award: This prize for ELT writing is sponsored by the British Council. Read more
   

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Encore Award: Up until 2011 the Society of Authors administered the Encore Award for the best second novel. For further information about the next Encore Award, see www.encoreaward.com