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Nominations for the 2026 Carnegies announced
Book Awards
Monday, November 3, 2025
Nominations have been announced for the 2026 Carnegies, the UK's longest-running children's book award, with 125 nominations across both awards, the Carnegie Medal for Writing and the Carnegie Medal for illustration.
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The Booker Prize launches The Children’s Booker Prize
Book Awards
Friday, October 24, 2025
The charity behind two of the world’s most significant literary prizes has announced a new £50,000 award for children's fiction, supported by the AKO Foundation.
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Little Rebels Award 2025 winner announced
Book Awards
Wednesday, October 1, 2025
Sarah Hagger Holt has won the Little Rebels Award 2015 for her novel The Fights That Make Us, a cross-generational story that honours the LGBTQ+ activists of the 1980s and 90s and their struggle against Section 28, and role of contemporary activists.
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UKLA Book Awards 2026 longlists announced
Book Awards
Tuesday, September 16, 2025
The 2026 longlists for the UKLA Book Awards, announced today, include books in translation, past winners, exciting debuts and a huge range of genres, topics and themes. The national children's book awards is judged by teachers and aims to showcase high quality...
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My Hair is as Long as River wins the Klaus Flugge Prize
Book Awards
Thursday, September 11, 2025
Emma Farrarons is the winner of the 2025 Klaus Flugge Prize awarded to the most exciting and promising newcomer to children's picture book illustration. She won for her illustrations in My...
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The Diverse Book Awards 2025 shortlist announced
Book Awards
Monday, September 8, 2025
The shortlist for the Diverse Book Awards 2025 across Picture Books, Children's, YA and Adults published in the UK and Ireland have been announced and include ten titles in each category. The overall winners will be announced at an award ceremony in October.
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Help judge the Young People's Book Prize 2025 science award
Book Awards
Friday, August 22, 2025
This September, schools and youth groups will be able to apply to help judge science book award, the Young People's Book Prize. Selected schools will join judging panels from across the UK to help pick the winner. Hundreds of judging panels receive a free set of shortlisted books - so t...
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Songlight wins the YA Book Prize 2025
Book Awards
Friday, August 22, 2025
Songlight by Moira Buffini has won the YA Book Prize 2025. Set in a post-apocalyptic future where an advanced form of telepathy known as songlight has emerged, the story follows two young women, Lark and Nightingale, who must hide their power of songlight from their oppressive society....
