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2024 SoA Awards and Summer Party
Celebrating the winners of over £140,000 in prizes for fiction, non-fiction and poetry – 20 June 2024.
ADCI Literary Prize | ALCS Tom-Gallon Trust Award | Betty Trask Prize & Awards | Cholmondeley Awards | Eric Gregory Awards | McKitterick Prize | Paul Torday Memorial Prize | Queen’s Knickers Award | Somerset Maugham Awards | Volcano Prize | Travelling Scholarships
The Society of Authors’ Awards 2025 – Winner Announcement
Event hosted by Helen Epega with a keynote from Joseph Coelho
The SoA Awards will be streamed live from Southwark Cathedral from 6.55pm
18 June 2025 - 9AM BST
The ADCI Literary Prize | The ALCS Tom-Gallon Trust Award | The Betty Trask Prize
The Cholmondeley Awards | The Eric Gregory Awards | The McKitterick Prize
The Queen’s Knickers Award | The Somerset Maugham Awards
The Travelling Scholarships | The Gordon Bowker Volcano Prize