Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award

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For full-length fiction, non-fiction or poetry by a British or Irish author aged 18-35

The Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award is an annual award, made possible by the Charlotte Aitken Trust and the Sunday Times. The prize of £10,000 is awarded for a full-length published or self-published (in book or ebook formats) work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry, by a British or Irish author aged 18-35 years. There are prizes of £1,000 for each shortlistee. The winning book will be the work of the most outstanding literary merit. 

Deadline to enter the prize: Friday 13 September 2024

The 2023 Charlotte Aitken Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award Winner

Debut novelist and journalist Tom Crewe has been named winner of the Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award for The New Life. The announcement was made at a live ceremony at Brixton’s Canova Hall by Johanna Thomas-Corr, Chief
Literary Critic for The Times and Sunday Times, alongside fellow judges, Booker-winning novelist and critic Anne Enright, novelist

The New Life by Tom Crewe (Chatto & Windus, Vintage)

The New Life is an extraordinarily brave and accomplished debut. Tom Crewe writes as if in
dispatches from 1894, apparently effortlessly, while managing to tell two distinct and intersecting stories
with authority, sensitivity and candor.
— Mendez, 2023 judge

The 2023 Charlotte Aitken Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award Shortlist

Close to Home by Michael Magee (Hamish Hamilton, Penguin Random House UK)

A Flat Place by Noreen Masud (Hamish Hamilton, Penguin Random House, UK)

Bad Diaspora Poems by Momtaza Mehri (Jonathan Cape, Vintage)

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