Prizes, grants and awards
Awards and Prize Winners 2007
FIRST-TIME NOVELISTS
Betty Trask Prize and Awards for a first novel by a writer under 35
Prize
Will Davis – My Side of the Story (Bloomsbury) £10,000
Awards
Adam Foulds – The Truth About These Strange Times (Weidenfeld) £2,500
Cynan Jones – The Long Dry (Parthian) £2,500
Julie Maxwell – You Can Live Forever (Cape) £2,500
Karen Mcleod – In Search of the Missing Eyelash (Cape) £2,500
Judges: Michele Roberts, Andrew Holgate and Sarah Waters
McKitterick Prize for a first novel by a writer over 40
Reina James – This Time of Dying (Portobello) £4,000
Judges: Andrew Cowan, Linda Grant and Salley Vickers
TRAVEL AWARDS
Somerset Maugham Awards given to writers under 35 for a published book
Horatio Clare – Running to the Hills (John Murray) £5,000
James Scudamore – The Amnesia Clinic (Harvill Secker) £5,000
Judges: Louise Doughty, Susan Elderkin and Matt Thorne
Travelling Scholarships given for potential and a writers’ body of work
Naomi Alderman £1,800
Susan Elderkin £1,800
Philip Marsden £1,800
Judges: Lisa Appignanesi, Helena Drysdale, Peter Kemp, Mark McCrum and Peter Preston
PRIZES FOR POETS
Cholmondeley Awards given in recognition of a poet’s body of writing
Judith Kazantzis £2,000
Robert Nye £2,000
Penelope Shuttle £2,000
Judges: Ruth Fainlight, David Morley and Carole Satyamurti and Henry Shukman
Eric Gregory Awards given to poets under 30
Recent Gregory winners are featured at the Ledbury Poetry Festival on Friday 6th July. Details: 0845 458 1743
Rachel Curzon £4,000
Miriam Gamble £4,000
Michael McKimm £4,000
Helen Mort £4,000
Jack Underwood £4,000
Judges: Cary Archard, Maura Dooley, Sophie Hannah, Ruth Padel, Lawrence Sail and Owen Sheers
PRIZE FOR A SHORT STORY
The Tom Gallon Award for a short story
Claire Keegan – The Parting Gift (newly published in Walk the Blue Fields (Faber) £1,000
Judges: Duncan Minshull and Helen Simpson
PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHY
Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography
Jessie Childs – Henry VIII’s Last Victim (Cape) £3,000
Judges: Lady Antonia Fraser, Flora Fraser, Roy Foster, Andrew Roberts and A.N. Wilson
See also
Betty Trask Prize and Awards
Betty Trask Prizes and Awards (past winners)
Cholmondeley Awards for Poets
Cholmondeley Awards for Poets (past winners)
Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography
Elizabeth Longford Prize (past winners)
Encore Award
Encore Award (past winners)
Eric Gregory Awards
Eric Gregory Trust Fund Awards (winners)
McKitterick Prize
McKitterick Prize (past winners)
Prizes for fiction and non-fiction
Sagittarius Prize (past winners)
Somerset Maugham Awards
Somerset Maugham Awards (past winners)
The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year
The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year (past winners)
Tom Gallon Trust Award and The Olive Cook Prize
Tom-Gallon Award for a short story (past winners)
Travelling Scholarships