- A12, A13, B60, S30 -

The Home Child by Liz Berry is The Writers Prize Book of the Year 2024 CATEGORY WINNERS The Wren The Wren by Anne Enright Fiction Thunderclap by Laura Cumming NonFiction The Home Child by Liz Berry Poetry The 2024 Writers Prize Shortlist Fiction The Wren The Wren by Anne Enright The Bee Sting by Paul Murray The Fraud by Zadie Smith NonFiction Thunderclap by Laura Cumming Doppelganger by Naomi Klein A Thread of Violence by Mark OConnell Poetry SelfPortrait as Othello by Jason AllenPaisant The Home Child by Liz Berry Bright Fear by Mary Jean Chan About Us More than Just a Prize the Literature Prize Foundation Our activities dont stop with the Prize. Our groundbreaking mentorship scheme run in partnership with First Story has worked with dozens of emerging writers from disadvantaged communities since its inception in 2017. Furthermore our partnership with UEA allows a Writers Prizewinning or shortlisted author to take up a Visiting Fellowship each year the current fellow is Sunjeev Sahota shortlisted in 2022 for his novel China Room. Current Projects We work with spinal injuries charity Horatios Garden on a writing for wellbeing scheme while our partnership with the University of Chichesters Ukrainian Digital Writer in Residence gave a voice in English to eminent Ukrainian author Volodymyr Rafeienko.