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Oct 17, 2024 | 
womensprize.com | Lynsey Passmore
2025 marks the 30th anniversary of the Women’s Prize for Fiction and the second Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction. We’re delighted to introduce you to the ten judges that make up the two judging panels. From academics to composers, authors and journalists, these impressive women are at the top of their respective professions, united by a love of reading.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
womensprize.com | Lynsey Passmore
Here she tells us about submitting her work to Discoveries, how she has dealt with her illness and not let that stop her from chasing her dreams. Rosy Dawson: In April 2023 I received an email to say that I was longlisted for Discoveries. I almost didn’t enter at all, because I thought it would be so unlikely that I would get noticed. I was also hugely preoccupied with significant health issues. I was in the kind of survival mode where good things no longer seemed realistic, or even possible.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
womensprize.com | Lynsey Passmore
We have a special day of events planned celebrating women and the written word. Tickets can be purchased at Storyhouse or a livestream ticket for the inaugural Women’s Prize Book Club with Susanna Clarke can be purchased here. Women’s Prize Day will consist of a series of panels, talks and workshops on Sunday 10 November. You can find all event details below.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
womensprize.com | Louise Candlish |Lynsey Passmore
There’s just something about psychological thrillers. The pace, plot, characterisation and suspense… it’s an artful chemistry that is far from easy to get right. Look at the person sitting next to you on the bus, train or plane, and nine times out of ten they’re reading a crime thriller. Why? Because we’re addicted to the tension. Internationally bestselling author Louise Candlish shares the five things she’s learnt from writing unputdownable psychological thrillers.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
womensprize.com | Lynsey Passmore
Run in partnership with Audible, the Curtis Brown Literary and Talent Agency, and the Curtis Brown Creative writing school, Discoveries aims to inspire unagented and unpublished women in the UK and Ireland to write their first novels, providing a host of resources designed to support women at all stages of their writing journey, with an ongoing commitment to reach writers currently underrepresented in the UK publishing industry.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
womensprize.com | Lynsey Passmore
Are you an avid creative writer? Perhaps you’re new to penning your thoughts? Wherever you are in your journey to wordsmithery, our Women’s Prize Writers newsletter is packed with inspiration, pearls of wisdom, author interviews and more to give you the boost and support you need to reach your personal writing goals. Sign up using the form below to recieve our writer’s newsletter! The Women's Prize Trust is a charity and we need your support.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
womensprize.com | Lynsey Passmore
Alongside its fantastic newspaper collection, the many millions of records featured on Findmypast, the inaugural sponsor of the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction, are a wonderful resource for non-fiction writing. Join Findmypast expert and published writer Rose Staveley-Wadham as she explains how you can use Findmypast’s extensive record collection to unlock hidden histories, and to add depth and authority to your non-fiction writing project.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
womensprize.com | Jungeun Yun |Riku Onda |Mizuki Tsujimura |Lynsey Passmore
This Women in Translation month we’ve teamed up with our friends at Doubleday, home to bestselling translated fiction including Lonely Castle in the Mirror by Mizuki Tsujimura and What You Are Looking For is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama, and one of their translators, Shanna Tan, to share some thoughts on one of the biggest trends in translated fiction: healing fiction. The Power of Healing FictionWritten by Shanna TanHealing fiction, to me, is a safe space.
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Aug 14, 2024 | 
womensprize.com | Diana Henry |Lynsey Passmore
By Diana HenryIf you are writing something that is instructional – a recipe – you will probably have to write as your magazine editor or publisher wants you to. There is a ‘house style’ for this kind of thing. Some places want you to make the fridge into ‘a refrigerator’, for example. They will also have an opinion on whether you can say ‘a handful’ or whether you have to be specific with quantities. Few allow you to do your own thing.
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
womensprize.com | Lynsey Passmore
It was created because we wanted to get to know you, meet readers face to face, and share the special magic of Bedford Square Gardens. Sadly it’s a once a year experience, but there are plenty of other ways to get to know and support women’s writers. One is to attend another literary festival, and we are blessed in the UK to have some gems. Here are some upcoming literary festivals that are turning up the noise this summer and beyond, and better yet, the mud will be kept to a minimum.
