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2024 SoA Awards and Summer Party
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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