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The Crime Writers Association (CWA) is to introduce a 'processing fee' across the majority of its awards from next year, and has cut the prize money on two of its [...]

Publisher at the Friday Project Scott Pack is launching a literary event with promises to provide 'something a bit different for book fans'. Called the Firestation Book Swap, it will [...]

Entries for the 2010 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize are now being accepted. The prize will be awarded to the best contemporary work of literary fiction in translation published in the [...]

The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary (Schwartz & Wade/Random) by Candace Fleming; The Graveyard Book (HarperCollins) by Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Dave McKean; Dark Dude (Atheneum) by [...]

London-based independent publisher To Hell with Publishing is launching a 5,000 £ prize for unpublished novels, plus a new list for debut authors. 'To Hell with Prizes' is aimed at [...]

The shortlist for the 10th annual Branford Boase Award has been announced. The award recognises promising new writers for children and the work of their editors. This year's shortlist includes: [...]

Ottakar's founder James Heneage and children's author Anthony Horowitz have joined the judging panel for The Bookseller Retail Awards 2009. They will be joined by Jo Howard, former chair of [...]

The longlist for the 2009 Desmond Elliott Prize has been announced, with five male and five female authors up for the 10,000 £ award. Nominated titles include Orange long-listed Girl [...]

The six-strong shortlist for the Orwell Prize for political writing was announced on Wednesday (25th March), with Andrew Brown's Fishing in Utopia (Granta) and Owen Matthews' Stalin's Children (Bloomsbury) up [...]

The winner of the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, worth 480,000 € (440,000 £), will be announced on Tuesday, 24th March. Ten candidates from the UK ate nominated including David Almond, [...]

Bristol Festival of Ideas has announced the six-strong shortlist for its inaugural 10,000 £ book prize, which is awarded annually to the book which 'presents new, important and challenging ideas, [...]

Entries are being accepted for the New Angle Prize for Literature, launched by the Ipswich Institute. A first prize of 2,000 £ will be awarded for a literary work associated [...]

The Galaxy British Book Awards will be running a mobile download and voting service for the shortlisted books provided through ICUE, a mobile marketing company. The service will allow users [...]

A book prize showcasing a new title every month in British libraries is due to launch this summer. It is being set up by Tatiana Wilson, m.d. of independent Delancey [...]

Duff Cooper Prize * Winner announced: 19th February * Shortlist: Mad, Bad and Sad: Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800 by Lisa Appignanesi (Virago); Nothing to be Frightened Of [...]

An eclectic six-strong shortlist for the inaugural Warwick Prize for Writing has been revealed, spanning six different publishers. The announcement was made on Thursday (22nd January). The titles chosen from [...]

A new category for Specialist Consumer Publisher has been introduced for this year's Independent Publishers Awards, taking place once again in Brighton. A total of 15 firms have been shortlisted [...]

Costa Book Awards * Shortlist winners announced: 6th January * Overall winner announced: 27th January * Novel shortlist: The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry (Faber); The Other Hand by Chris [...]

The European Commission is launching a new European Union prize for contemporary literature. The prize, which will be awarded for the first time next autumn, will recognise emerging talents in [...]

The deadline for entries from publishers for the Galaxy British Book Awards is 1st December.A full application form with all relevant details is available now on thebookseller.com. The televised awards [...]

The And/or Book Awards, previously known as the Kraszna-Krausz Awards, the UK's leading prizes for books published in the fields of photography and the moving image, are inviting publishers to [...]

The nominations for the 2008 CILIP Carnegie Medal and CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal are now online. The awards are selected by librarians and the shortlist will be announced on 24th [...]

Man Asian Literary Prize * Winner announced: 13th November * Shortlist: The Story That Must Not be Told by Kavery Nambisan; Lost Flamingoes of Bombay by Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi; Ilustrado [...]

Submissions are being sought for the Branford Boase Award for books published during 2008. The award recognises the most promising book for seven year olds and upwards by a first [...]

The 10,000 £ Desmond Elliott Prize for debut novels is to become an annual award, with entries now invited for next year. The success of the inaugural award, won by [...]

ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards * Winners announced: 3rd October * Shortlists: Breakthrough Author: Heartsick by Chelsea Cain (Pan); Broken Skin by Stuart MacBride (Harper); Shatter Michael Robotham (Sphere); The Messenger [...]

Six Waterstone's reading groups will help pick the shortlist for this year's Guardian First Book Award. Customers will select their favourites from the 10-strong longlist and their views will be [...]

Twenty children's and adult books have been picked by indies for the Booksellers Association's Independent Booksellers Book Prize 2008. Two shortlists, one for adults and one for children, were created [...]

Twelve novels have been shortlisted for the three fiction prizes at ITV3's inaugural Crime Thriller Awards, with titles included ranging from Sfieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Quercus) [...]

The Sun newspaper has signed a media partnership to support ITV3's new Crime Thriller season and awards this autumn. In the deal struck with production company Cactus TV, the newspaper [...]

Frances Lincoln is launching a new writing award to help it attract authors from a variety of cultural backgrounds. The Frances Lincoln Diverse Voices Children's Book Award, named in memory [...]

The Book Marketing Society is launching its '40 Best Audiobooks' promotion this week, with the Guardian featuring the final selection of titles in a special supplement tomorrow (28th June) and [...]

Costa has launched a competition to find three young people to help judge this year's Costa Children's Book Award winner. Children aged nine to 13 years must write a 200-word [...]

The team behind the Red House Children's Book Award (RHCBA) has expressed its 'disappointment' at not having been consulted by the Children's Book Group of the Publishers Association, which is [...]

PEN/Ackerley Prize * Winner announced: 10th June * Shortlist: The Presence by Dannie Abse (Hutchinson); Who Is It That Can Tell Me Who I Am ? by Jane Haynes (www. [...]

Michael Rosen has created a new book prize celebrating the funniest books for children. Administered by national charity Booktrust and supported by the National Year of Reading, the Roald Dahl [...]

The Bristol Festival of Ideas has launched a new 10,000 £ annual book prize, the first of which will be presented in May 2009, the fifth anniversary of the festival's [...]

Fine-tuning the Discover Program Early last month, B. Dalton threw a party in midtown Manhattan to launch the Discover Great New Writers program, which is now up and running at [...]

Independent booksellers are to choose and promote a Book of the Year this autumn. The award will launch a BA campaign culminating in a weeklong celebration of indies next year. [...]

Hughes & Hughes has again approached the Irish BA with a concept for an Irish literary awards scheme that could include a 'Richard & Judy'-style Best Read category. Hughes & [...]

Waterstone's has joined forces with Faber & Faber to launch an annual new talent writing competition for children, the Wow Factor. The winning title will be published by Faber and [...]

Bestsellers by Dan Brown, John Grisham, Mark Haddon and Lee Child are among 147 titles on a longlist for the 2005 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. The full list can be [...]

The Stanford University Libraries, CA, have announced the launch of a prize to acknowledge new writers. The award, which will be administered in partnership with the William Saroyan Foundation, will [...]

Authors Peter Hennessy and Marina Warner will judge next year's Orwell Prize for political writing. The chair will be Bernard Crick, who helped to establish the prize in 1993 with […]

Forget the national Book Award and the Pulitzer. Radio shock jock Don Imus has shoved his way into the center of publishing, announcing plans to make America's top literary prize [...]

HARVARD UNIVERSITY'S Nieman Foundation has joined with the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism to establish a series of nonfiction literary awards in honor of the late Pulitzer Prize-winning New [...]