The Aurora Prize for Writing is now OPEN!
full details nce 2016, Aurora has provided a platform for writers, offering a prize that is truly national (and international) with its heart in the East Midlands. Our judges have included leading literary lights from the region and beyond, with names such as Joanna Cannon, Casey Bailey, Mahsuda Snaith, Alison Moore, Jon McGregor, Malika Booker, Helen Mort, Debris Stevenson, Shreya Sen-Handley, Georgina Wilding, Joelle Taylor and Irenosen Okojie. We are thrilled to announce that this year’s judges are BAFTA award-winning screenwriter and Stonewall Book Award-winning author Dean Atta, reading poetry, and 2021 Desmond Elliot Prize winner and 2023 Dylan Thomas Prize shortlistee A K Blakemore, reading short fiction. As well as receiving a cash prize, winners receive feedback on a piece of work of their choice from a matched literary agent or editor. We receive hundreds of entries each year, with the best 25 in each category making it to a published longlis...