Press
Booktrust’s press office provides accurate and up-to-the-minute news about Booktrust’s projects for journalists.
We provide information on the latest prizes and events, interviews with key Booktrust spokespeople and prize associates, images, statistics and evaluation.
Our press campaigns and close relationships with the media serve to raise the public profile of Booktrust through national, regional, broadcast and online coverage.
For more information, contact Rosi Crawley, Booktrust Press Coordinator:
t 020 8875 4827
e rosi.crawley@booktrust.org.uk
Press releases
LATEST (2 May 2013): Waterstones launches Maytilda to celebrate the Children's Reading Fund
Bookbuzz announces its new list for 2013
Booktime announces new titles for 2013
Longlist for Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2013 announced
Only one in eight dads take the lead in reading to their children. Get Dads Reading
The View from The Shard announces Booktrust as its first charity partner
New national schools reading competition, Read for My School, is under way
BBC National Short Story Award launches for 2013
Booktrust announce renewed funding for bookgifting
Booktime launches its 2012 programme
David Cohen Prize for Literature 2013 judges announced
Roald Dahl Funny Prize 2012 judges announced
Creating a generation of keen readers to tackle Britain's literacy crisis
New research highlights need for free books for babies as Bookstart celebrates 20th year
Inaugural Bookbuzz titles announced
Orange Prize for Fiction 2012 winner announced
Kim Scott Walwyn 2012 winner announced
100 Prisons to take a 'Rhyme Challenge'
Booktime announces its 2012 titles
Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2012 winner announced
Kim Scott Walwyn Prize 2012 shortlist announced
Orange Prize for Fiction 2012 shortlist announced
Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2012 shortlist announced
The Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award 2012 winner announced
Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2012 longlist announced
Orange Prize for Fiction 2012 longlist announced
Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award 2012 shortlist announced (.pdf 213Kb)
Blue Peter Book Awards 2012 winners announced (.pdf 325Kb)
Blue Peter launches vote for the 'Best Children's Book of the last 10 Years' (.pdf 456Kb)
BBC International Short Story Award launches (word doc 65Kb)
Blue Peter Book Awards 2012 shortlist announced (.pdf 58Kb)
New events and publishing partnership with Sunday Times Short Story Award and Waterstone's announced (pdf 68Kb)
Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2012 judges announced (Word .docx 238Kb)
Letterbox Club wins a Third Sector Excellence Award (Word .docx 274Kb)
Youngest ever winner of the BBC National Short Story Award 2011 (.pdf 758Kb)
The Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award judging panel is announced (.pdf 203Kb)
Roald Dahl Funny Prize 2011 shortlists announced (.pdf 136Kb)
Letterbox Green evaluation report key findings (.pdf 57Kb)
Kim Scott Walwyn 2011 winner, Kay Peddle, announces Random House internship with prize money (Word .docx 45Kb)
Roald Dahl Funny Prize 2011: Judging panel announced (.pdf 153Kb)
BBC National Short Story Award 2011: Judging panel announced (.pdf 787Kb)
New Booktime title is announced (Word .doc 265Kb)
New Waterstone's Children's Laureate is announced (Word .doc 483Kb)
New Booktrust Patron announced (Word .doc 125Kb)
Independent Foreign Fiction Prize winner announced (.pdf 48Kb)
The shortlist for the Kim Scott Walwyn Prize 2011 has been announced (Word .doc 150Kb)
The shortlist for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2011 has been announced (Word .doc 99Kb)
The shortlist for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2011 has been announced (.pdf 309Kb)
The winner of The Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award 2011 is revealed (Word .doc 168Kb)
Top Ten Rising Stars of Illustration Revealed (.pdf 41Kb)
The Orange Prize for Fiction 2011 longlist is announced (Word .doc 95Kb)
Longlist announced for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2011 (.pdf 64Kb)
BBC National Short Story Award 2011 launches (Word .doc 315Kb)
Kim Scott Walwyn Prize for women in publishing returns for 2011 with new focus on emerging talent (.pdf 52Kb)
New Richard and Judy Children's Book Club launched (Word doc 42Kb)
Judges announced for the David Cohen Prize for Literature 2011 (.pdf 53Kb)
Judges announced for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2011 (.pdf 68Kb)
Debut novel wins the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize 2010 (.pdf 42Kb)
Archived press releases from before this are available on request by email
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