The ALCS Educational Writers' Award celebrates the best of non-fiction that stimulates or enhances learning. 

The £2,000 award is given annually with the age groups of the works under consideration rotated each year.

The 2018 winner for the 11-18 age group was Cath Senker for Far From Home (Franklin Watts)

ALCS Educational Writers' Award 2019

The 2019 award is for books published during 2017 and 2018 for the 5-11 age group. The £2,000 award will be given in December to an outstanding example of traditionally published non-fiction (with or without illustrations) that stimulates and enhances learning. 

Entry to the 2019 Award is now closed.