Orange Prize
Official site for this annual prize for the best novel by a woman; good information online.

The Biographers' Club Prize
The £2,000 Biographers’ Club Prize, sponsored by the Daily Mail, aims to finance and encourage uncommissioned first-time writers researching a biography.

Booktrade
Book trade site including news and directories of agents, publishers, awards and bookshops.

Booktrust Prizes
Information on all the literary prizes in the UK including the prizes Booktrust administer: Booker Prize, Kurt Maschler Award, Smarties Prize, John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, and more.

Bridport Prize
The Bridport Prize is an annual international creative writing competition for poetry and short stories.

British Book Awards
Information about the book industry awards

British Comparative Literature Association / British Centre for Literary Translation Translation Competition
Prize for the best unpublished literary translations from any language into English.

Canterbury Public Library - Literary prizes and Awards
Useful information on the Betty Trask Awards, Crime Writers' Association Awards, Hugo Awards for Science Fiction, Nebulla Awards for Science Fiction and more.

Commonwealth Broadcasting Association
Has information about the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association Short Story Competition.

Commonwealth Writers Prize
Commonwealth Writers Prize web site.

Crime Writers Association
Organisation promoting the appreciation of crime fiction and non-fiction, including an annual award.

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
Official site for the world's richest literary prize, with entries nominated by public libraries around the world. Useful information online about shortlists and winners.

Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize
This annual prize is awarded to the author of what in the opinion of the judges is the best first full collection of poetry published in Great Britain and Eire in the preceding year.

Literature Awards Winners
International literary awards site that includes an awards calendar.

Macmillan Writer's Prize for Africa
For new writing talent in Africa for children's and teenage literature.

Man Booker International Prize
The Man Booker International Prize highlights one writer's continued creativity, development and overall contribution to fiction on the world stage.

Mslexia
The Mslexia Women's Poetry Competition.

Nestle Smarties Prize
Children's literature prize site.

Peterloo Poets Annual Open Poetry Competition
The Peterloo Poets Competition is an open competiton including a seperate 15 - 19 year-old catergory.

Stephen Spender Prize
The Times Stephen Spender Prize for poetry translation is open to British residents aged 30 or under. Entrants are invited to translate a poem from any language, classical or modern.

Costa Book Awards
Official site for the range of Costa awards for contemporary British writing.

Wordup
Resources for writers, with a database of links and a literary prize.

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