Prizes and awards

From the search to find the best women's fiction to the focus on funny children's books, our prizes and awards celebrate the best writing from the UK and beyond.

The prizes and awards we run cover a wide range of genres and themes for both children and adults ranging from a single short story to a whole lifetime's achievement in literature.

Booktrust Prizes and Awards promote books to a wide audience, bringing new books to attention and providing access points for readers to engage with different types of books. Our prizes support writers and illustrators, rewarding them for their endeavours, and celebrate books and writers as an integral part of the UK's arts and culture landscape.

Win the Orange Prize for Fiction 2012 shortlist

To celebrate the Orange Prize for Fiction 2012 we have a full set of the shortlist to give away to one lucky booklover.

Enter the competition

Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2012 shortlist

Aharon Appelfeld wins the 2012 prize for Blooms of Darkness.

Read about the winner

The 2012 Roald Dahl Funny Prize is now accepting entries

We are now inviting entries from publishers for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize 2012, which aims to promote laughter and humour as a feel-good factor when reading, to draw attention to funny books as readable and enjoyable books and to reward authors and illustrators who write and illustrate books using humour.

Find out how to enter