The Sunday Times/Peters Fraser & Dunlop Young Writer of the Year is an annual prize, sponsored by the Sunday Times and Peters Fraser & Dunlop.
The Sunday Times/Peters Fraser & Dunlop Young Writer of the Year Award of £5,000 is awarded for a full-length published or self-published (in book or ebook formats) work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry, by an author of 35 years or under. There are three prizes of £500 each for runners-up. The winning book will be a work of outstanding literary merit.
The results of the Sunday Times/Peters Fraser & Dunlop Young Writer of the Year Award will be announced in December 2015.
The three judges for this year’s prize are Andrew Holgate, Sunday Times Literary Editor; Peter Kemp, Sunday Times Chief Fiction Reviewer; and Sarah Waters, author and recipient of the prize in 2000.
The prize is administered by the Society of Authors. To apply and for more information about the prize please visit the Society of Authors website. The prize is now open for submissions and the closing date is 30 June 2015.
“For young writers, a prize makes all the difference: not just the publicity flare, or the tag-line on the paperback jacket, but the jag of confidence it brings. Someone believes in your prose, someone has prized those sentences you spent all those years laying end to end… Nothing crushes the wish to write quite like apathy; nothing boosts it quite like being read and responded to carefully. [After winning the award in 2004] I started to think I might be able to write another book – that became The Wild Places (2007), and here I am in 2015, six books down and another underway, thinking back more than a decade to the Prize, and the huge boost it gave me.” Robert Macfarlane, winner 2004
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