Literary Awards and Prizes
Scottish Literary Awards UK Book Prizes
Scottish Literary Awards
Dundee International Book Prize
Dundee City Council
City of Discovery Campaign
3 City Square
Dundee
DD1 3BA
Telephone: 01382 434275
Website: www.dundeebookprize.co.uk
Summary: A biennial prize of £10,000 and the chance of publication by Polygon, is awarded for an unpublished novel.
The Callum Macdonald Memorial Award
The Callum Macdonald Memorial Fund
National Library of Scotland
George IV Bridge
Edinburgh
EH1 1EW
Telephone: 0131 226 4531
Contact: The Administrator
Summary: This annual award has been created to recognise publishing skill and effort, to validate the practice of poetry publication in pamphlet form and to encourage the preservation of printed material of this kind in the national collections. The award was created in memory of Callum Macdonald MBE, Scottish literary publisher and founder of Macdonald Publishers and Printers. The prize consists of The Callum Macdonald Quaich and a cash prize of £500.
The Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship
Contact: Fiona Morrison Graham
Email: morrisongraham@tiscali.co.uk
Mobile: 07748 782 058
Summary: A two-month residency at Grez-sur-Loing, Fontainbleu, France, where Stevenson first met his wife Fanny Osborne, funded by the Scottish Arts Council and the National Library of Scotland.
Appointed By: Scottish Arts Council/ National Library of Scotland
Occurrence: Annual
The Saltire Society Scottish Literary Awards
The Saltire Society
9 Fountain Close
High Street
Edinburgh
EH1 1TF
Telephone: 0131 556 1836
Contact: Kathleen Munro, Administrator
Summary: Two awards, Scottish Book of the Year (£5,000), and Scottish First Book (£1,500), are open to any author of Scottish descent or living in Scotland, or for a book by anyone which deals with the work or life of a Scot or with a Scottish problem, event or situation. Nominations are made by literary editors of Scottish newspapers and periodicals.
Sundial Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year Awards
Literature Department
Scottish Arts Council
12 Manor Place
Edinburgh
EH3 7DD
Telephone: 0131-226 6051
Fax: 0131 225 9833
Contact: Aly Barr, Literature Officer
Summary: The Book Awards recognise and reward literary excellence and merit. There are four categories each worth £5,000: Fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry and First Book
The Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship
Contact: Fiona Morrison Graham
Email: morrisongraham@tiscali.co.uk
Mobile: 07748 782 058
Summary: A two-month residency at Grez-sur-Loing, Fontainbleu, France, where Stevenson first met his wife Fanny Osborne, funded by the Scottish Arts Council and the National Library of Scotland.
Appointed By: Scottish Arts Council/ National Library of Scotland
Occurrence: Annual
James Tait Black Memorial Prizes
Department of English Literature
University of Edinburgh
David Hume Tower
George Square
Edinburgh
EH8 9LF
Telephone: 0131 650 3619
Website: www.ed.ac.uk/englit/jtbinf.htm
Summary: Two prizes of £10,000 each are awarded annually: one for a biography and the other for fiction. The closing date for submissions is 31 January. Mark envelopes "James Tait Black Prize".
Robin Jenkins Literary Award
The Robin Jenkins Literary Award 2008/9 is a new writing award for £5,000 for a work of fiction or non-fiction that draws and builds on Scotland’s cultural heritage using the country’s unique environmental assets, in particular trees and forestry. Sponsored by Forestry Commission Scotland, the Robin Jenkins Literary Award will be for £5,000. The work should not exceed 100,000 words in length. It can be a biography, environmental or wildlife study, historical account or a work of fiction, as long as it can be clearly referenced to the key theme. Entries of new writing and works published within the last 2 years are eligible if they meet the criteria. Entries should be sent to the organisers no later than 31 March 2009.
Website: www.robinjenkinsaward.org
UK book prizes
Below is a list of links to the sites of the major contemporary writing awards and prizes in the UK:
Frances Lincoln Diverse Voices Children's Book Award
Galaxy British Book Awards
James Tait Black Memorial Prizes
Man Booker International Prize
Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction
Saltire Society Literary Awards
Sundial Scottish Arts Council Book Awards
BBC National Short Story Award
