News - 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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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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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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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....

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Thursday, July 17, 2025

The Little Rebels Award shortlist for 2025 has been announced and includes six books that will "speak to a generation of young activists and critical thinkers" say its organisers. The award is a prize for radical fiction aimed at children aged 0-12. It is give...

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Thursday, July 17, 2025

The Diverse Book Awards returns for its sixth year to highlight inclusive, empowering, and representative books published in the UK and Ireland. The award attracted over 250 submissions across four categories - Picture Books, Children's, YA and Adult Fiction - marking a record-breaking celebra...

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Thursday, July 10, 2025

Margaret McDonald's Glasgow Boys has scored a hat trick with its third top literature award this year, winning the Branford Boase Award 2025 for outstanding debut writers and their editors. Editors Alice Swan and Ama Badu, who edited Glasgow Boys, wer...

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Friday, June 20, 2025

Colette Hiller has been announced as the winner of the 2025 CLiPPA children's poetry award for her collection Colossal Words for Kids, illustrated by Tor Freeman (Frances Lincoln Children's Books).  In Colossal Words for Kids, Hiller defines in rhyme 75 'colossa...

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