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Oliver Jeffers, David Walliams and Malorie Blackman are among the big-name authors shortlisted for the 2015 Red House Children's Book Awards. The shortlist is divided into three categories: books for [...]

launches YA Prize takes on YA culture that influence the world and we need to give those voices more volume and attention like the young people they serve.' Sarah Odedina, [...]

The Bookseller is to launch the first ever prize for Young Adult books in the UK and Ireland. The decision to create the prize was made after The Bookseller reported [...]

Booktrust has revealed the judges for the David Cohen Prize for Literature 2015, which awards a 40,000 [pounds sterling] prize for a lifetime's achievement in literature. Mark Lawson will spend [...]

Hot Key Books is teaming up with online writing community Wattpad for this year's Young Writers Prize. The competition, which is open to young people worldwide who are writing in [...]

* Mark your calendar now for Friday, June 27, 8-10 p.m., when Booklist Publications and YALSA will co-present the Michael L. Printz Program and Reception, which will be held in […]

7TH MARCH LONGLIST ANNOUNCED 7TH APRIL SHORTLIST ANNOUNCED 4TH JUNE WINNER ANNOUNCED Celebrating great writing by women and taking it to a wider audience than ever before are the core [...]

The London Evening Standard is launching a children's book prize in memory of Oscar Ashton--the son of the newspaper's City editor James Ashton--who died last year. Oscar's First Book Prize, [...]

The prize fund for the Wellcome Book Prize has been increased to 30,000 £, a 5,000 £ increase for the annual award which goes to a title with a medical [...]

Former Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams is to chair the judging panel for the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize 2014. The prize, run in association with Waterstones, rewards the [...]

The 10,000 [pounds sterling] Commonwealth Book Prize will no longer be awarded. The organisation responsible for the prize, Commonwealth Writers, has said that it intends to focus instead on its [...]

Swansea University has been announced as the new sponsor of the Dylan Thomas prize The annual prize of [pounds sterling] 30,000 is given to a work in the English language [...]

Titles from Frances Lincoln, Templar, Walker and Random House UK have been short-listed for the inaugural Letterbox Library Little Rebels award. The prize looks to reward radical children's fiction written [...]

Ken Livingstone will announce the winner of the Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing at the inaugural London Radical Booksellers Fair in May. The fair has been organised by [...]

Jeanette Winterson is to chair the judging panel for the 2013 Forward Prizes for Poetry, to be announced on 1st October. The author is joined on the panel by actor/ [...]

W H Smith is to support the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year award, in a three-year partnership with Harrogate International Festivals. The deal includes a month-long nationwide [...]

The judges have been revealed for the Bookseller Industry Awards, which take place on 13th May. The retailer and publisher panel comprises The Bookseller's editor Philip Jones and features and [...]

Random House Children's Books, Egmont and Little Tiger Press have each picked up two nominations for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize. The prize is voted for by Waterstones booksellers with [...]

The Tibor Jones Pageturner Prize 2013 is calling for entries. The winner of the biennial prize will be announced in May this year. The judges will be Review Bookshop bookseller [...]

You may recall the fluttering of the dovecotes in literary London in 2011 occasioned by the remarks made by the chair of judges for that year's Man Booker Prize, Dame [...]

Waterstones is to sponsor the inaugural Pushkin House Russian Book Prize, designed to further public understanding of the Russian-speaking world by rewarding non-fiction writing about the country. The annual prize [...]

The Bookseller staff Penguin, HarperCollins, Profile, Bardowl and the History Press have been shortlisted for a FutureBook Innovation Award, the third year of the initiative that aims to recognise innovation [...]

Paddy Power and Total Politics are launching The Political Book Awards with a 10,000 [pounds sterling] prize for the Political Book of the Year. The Debut Political Book of the [...]

It's normally not really big news to announce that ALA is launching a new book award. On Booklist Online, we track the annual winners of 37 book and media awards [...]

The shortlist has been revealed for this year's Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year--the prestigious literary award run by The Bookseller since 1978. Readers can vote on [...]

Sure, it is crass but one of the first things I talk about with Cathy Calvin is money--prize money. Fertile past three years, the deputy editor of the Sunday Times [...]

The six shortlisted books for the 2012 $50,000 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature have been unveiled. They are: U R Ananthamurthy's Bharathipura (OUP, India); Chandrakanta's A Street in Srinagar [...]

Tea Obreht's Orange Prize-winning novel The Tiger's Wife (Orion) is one of three debut novels on the University of Wales Dylan Thomas Prize 2011 shortlist, praised by the chair for [...]

Broadcaster and 'Strictly Come Dancing' winner Natasha Kaplinsky is to join the judging panel for next year's Orange Prize for Fiction. The other judges are writer Lisa Appignanesi; journalist and [...]

As the award ages, the Man Booker becomes ever more significant. Arguably, it is the single most important prize for a book in the world; we are a long way [...]

Editors from Simon & Schuster, Atlantic, Random House and Meadowside Children's Books have made it onto the shortlist for the 2011 Kim Scott Walwyn Prize. The four-strong list, announced at [...]

Debut novelists Manu Joseph and Sam Leith have been shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize. The prize celebrates the novel of the last 12 months that best captures the [...]

The Independent Publishers Guild is calling for entries for its 2011 Independent Publishing Awards. The awards are open to all members of the IPG, and entries must be received by [...]

The University of Alabama School of Law and The ABA Journal are requesting entries for the first annual Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction [...]

Author Susan Hill and the Daily Telegraph's head of books Gaby Wood are among the judges for next year's Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Writer and columnist Matthew d'Ancona, and [...]

The Booktrust Best New Illustrators Award, launched in 2008, is to be repeated in 2011 to highlight emerging illustrators through media coverage and exhibitions. The award will focus on 10 [...]

Three debut titles are among those jostling for the [pounds sterling]5,000 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize this year, with a poetry collection and a historical novel also making the cut. Orange-longlisted [...]

Orange is to drop its award for new writers following a 'mutual agreement' with Arts Council England. Orange will instead launch an Orange Book Club and a new books website, [...]

Metro literary editor Claire Alfree is to chair an all-women judging panel for this year's John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. Alfree will be joined by critic and broadcaster Bidisha and poet [...]

Small publishers are concerned about the Guardian's new levy on entering titles for its First Book Award, with several saying they 'can't afford' to take part this year. Publishers are [...]

A new prize for historical novels has been launched, offering [pounds sterling]25,000 to the winner. The Walter Scott Prize is open to titles first published in the UK in 2009, [...]

A Victorian members' club for writers is getting a 21st-century makeover, with a refurbished venue and re-launched travel writing prize. Since it was founded in 1891, members of The Authors' [...]

Submissions for the Branford Boase Award are now being accepted. The award is made annually to the most promising book by a debut novelist for children aged seven years plus. [...]