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)

The 2019 winner for the 5-11 age group was Alastair Humphreys and illustrator Kevin Ward for Alastair Humphreys' Great Adventurers: The Incredible Expeditions of 20 Explorers (Big Picture Press)

Entry to the ALCS Educational Writers' Award 2020
is now open.

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The 2020 award is for books published during 2018 and 2019 for the 11-18 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. 

Please note the deadline for entries has been extended to FRIDAY 10 JULY, 12PM (GMT)