Prizes and awards archive
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John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
As you will be aware, the last few months have been particularly challenging for Booktrust. Our new funding settlement with the Department for Education has allowed us to protect the universal offer of the national bookgifting programmes, but it has nonetheless forced us to undertake a thorough review of all... -
Booktrust Early Years Awards
The Booktrust Early Years Awards celebrated and publicised the range of books published for babies, toddlers and pre-school children. Known as the Sainsbury’s Baby Book Award from 1999 to 2004, books were judged in three categories:The Best Book for babies under one-year-old, which focussed on board and novelty books; The... -
Booktrust Teenage Prize
Established in 2003, the Booktrust Teenage Prize recognised the best in contemporary writing for teenagers. Unique in its involvement of teenagers in the judging process, giving four winners of a short story competition the opportunity to debate and vote on the shortlisted books with the adult judging panel, the Prize... -
Nestlé Children’s Book Prize
For 23 years, the Nestlé Children’s Book Prize (formerly the Smarties Prize) celebrated the very best in children’s fiction and poetry. It was one of the UK’s longest running prizes and helped to launch the careers of many of today’s top children’s writers, including J K Rowling and Lauren Child,... -
New Writing Ventures
New Writing Ventures was an annual series of major national prizes and awards for emerging writers in poetry, fiction and non-fiction. The awards were launched by the New Writing Partnership, a unique enterprise that aimed to highlight, develop and support creative writing. It was last awarded in 2007. -
Orange Prize for Fiction
Now in its eighteenth year, the Women's Prize for Fiction was set up to celebrate excellence, originality and accessibility in writing by women throughout the world. Known from 1996 to 2012 as the Orange Prize for Fiction, it is the UK's most prestigious annual book award for fiction written by... -
Orange Award for New Writers
Launched in 2005 in partnership with Arts Council England, the Orange Award for New Writers celebrated emerging female literary talent. All first works of fiction, including novels, short story collections and novellas, written by women of any age or nationality and published as a book in the UK were eligible... -
The Power of Reading Award
The Adult Learners' Week Awards, organised by NIACE , recognise extraordinary learners with inspirational learning journeys that have helped them transform not only their own lives, but the lives of the people around them too. Whether learning has boosted their confidence, helped them develop existing or new skills, or led... -
YoungMinds Award
YoungMinds is the UK's leading charity committed to improving the emotional well being and mental health of children and young people and empowering their parents and carers. The YoungMinds Award was sponsored by Booktrust to help young people (12+) deal with the pressure and the stresses of growing up.
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