Prizes

• Caroline Day wins Joan Hessayon award

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  Monday, 20th September 2021

  Takes RNA's new writing prize with 'powerful' Hope Nicely's Lessons for Life
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• Guernsey International Poetry Competition launched

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  Friday, 17th September 2021

  Award winning UK poet Michael Symmons Roberts lined up to judge the 2022 Guernsey International Poetry Competition
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• Miss Benson’s Beetle takes Wilbur Smith prize

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  Friday, 17th September 2021

  £10,000 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize, Best Published Novel, won by Rachel Joyce with Miss Benson’s Beetle (Doubleday)
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• PRH - and Americans - dominate Booker shortlist

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  Wednesday, 15th September 2021

  Four Penguin Random House titles in last six: three American authors in the running; Ishiguro out
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• Laurel Prize 2021 longlist announced

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  Tuesday, 14th September 2021

  John Kinsella, Barbara Kingsolver, Jen Hadfield among contenders for Poet Laureate's prize
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• BBC National Short Story Award 2021 shortlist announced

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  Monday, 13th September 2021

  Lucy Caldwell, Rory Gleeson, Georgina Harding, Danny Rhodes, Richard Smyth
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• Lakeland Book of the Year 2021 shortlists announced

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  Monday, 13th September 2021

  James Rebanks, Grace Dent, Jonathan Bate among contenders
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• Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2021 longlist released

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  Friday, 10th September 2021

  13 books in the race for UK's top non-fiction prize, worth £50,000 to the winner: Canongate and Viking lead the publisher pack with two nominations each
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• Second award in a week for English Pastoral

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  Friday, 10th September 2021

  James Rebanks' story of Cumbrian farming life wins Food Book of the Year at last night's Fortnum & Mason awards; on Tuesday night the book won the Wainwright Prize
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• Joanne Key wins Nature Writing Prize for Working Class Writers

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  Thursday, 9th September 2021

  Her poem Birdwatching takes the prize: now in its second year the competition is organised by writer and working class activist Natasha Carthew
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