Over £160,000 in literary awards.
We administer prizes to celebrate authors at every stage of their careers from fiction, poetry, audio drama, and translated works.
Our annual SoA Awards for fiction, non-fiction, poetry originally written in English were worth £130,000 in 2026.
Our Translation Prizes celebrate works translated from a variety of languages into English. At the last awards ceremony, we were able to award over £30,000 to translators.
The Imison and Tinniswood Awards recognise new and outstanding audio drama scripts.
We also administer a variety of external prizes, including: The Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award, the Ilse Schwepcke Prize, the Encore Award, the ALCS Educational Writers Award, and the Windrush Prize.
Discover more about each of our awards using the specific webpages below.
The SoA Awards
Over £100,000 awarded annually for poetry, fiction, non-fiction and illustration
Translation Prizes
Over £10,000 awarded annually for literature in translation
Audio Drama
Celebrating new talent and outstanding achievement in writing for audio drama
External Prizes
Sponsored Awards administered by the SoA Prizes team
Retired Prizes
Prizes that have permanently closed