Scottish Awards and Prizes List

• List of previous Angus Book Award winners

Every year third-year pupils from Angus secondary schools decide who wins the Angus Book Award. They vote for their favourite book from a shortlist of new paperback novels for teenagers written by UK authors. The book must be a work of teenage fiction appropriate for the 13–15 year old age group, published in a first paperback edition between July and June of the previous year and written by an author living and working in the UK.

• http://www.angus.gov.uk/bookaward
• Contact Moyra Hood on 01241 435 008
• Email hoodm@angus.gov.uk

The Callum Macdonald Memorial Award is given in recognition of publishing skill and effort in the field of poetry pamphlets. All Scottish publishers of poetry in pamphlet form are eligible to apply. Pamphlets should be published in the calendar year preceding the award (January to December 2009). The prize consists of The Callum Macdonald Quaich and a cash prize of £750.

• http://www.nls.uk/about/awards/index.html
• Contact NLS Communications on 0131 623 3810/3808
• Email marketing@nls.uk

Closing date: 2 April 2010. Presentation takes place annually in May.

Inaugurated in 2008, this prize is awarded to the Scottish writer who, in the opinion of the judges, has written the best novel in the previous year. The prize is open to any full-length novel, written in English or Scots, by a writer born or living in Scotland. To be eligible for the 2009 prize, a book must have been first published in 2008.

• http://www.ayewrite.com/Book-Prize

The Trust runs two competitions jointly with Writers' News: the Self-Publishing Awards and the Writers' Circle Anthology.

The Self-Publishing Awards, the only awards for Self-Publishers, have been part of the Trust's aim to encourage Self-Publishers and reduce the number of people who find they pay expensively for little benefit when going to Vanity Publishers. There are four categories each with a £250 prize; the overall winner is declared Self-Publisher of the Year with a total award of £1,000 and a silver cup. The winner of the separate award, Self-Publishing for Charity, receives £500 and a shield.

The judges of the Writers' Circle Anthology Trophy select a shortlist of four writers' groups. The overall winner receives £100 for their group's funds and a silver cup.

• Contact: Anne Hill, PO Box 6055, Nairn IV12 4YB
• Email dsjtcharitynairn@fsmail.net

This innovative literary award, which carries a cash prize of £1,000, aims to recognise excellence in storytelling for children as well as encouraging youngsters to read. The project takes place annually in Dundee primary schools during February and March and the prize is awarded in June.

• http://http://www.dundeecity.gov.uk/library/picturebooks
• Email stuart.syme@dundeecity.gov.uk or moira.foster@dundeecity.gov.uk

• List of previous Dundee Book Prize winners

An annual cash prize of £10,000 together with publication for an unpublished novel on any theme and in any genre. The winner is announced each year at the Dundee Literary Festival in June

• http://www.dundeebookprize.com/

Closing date: For details on the 2011 prize, email Anna Day at literarydundee@gmail.com

This scholarship, supported by the Scottish Arts Council, provides one free place at the Scottish Universities' International Summer School, based in Edinburgh. Applications are invited from translators with an interest in the twentieth-century and contemporary Scottish writing.

• http://http://www.llc.ed.ac.uk/suiss/scholarships.html
• Email SUISS@ed.ac.uk

Closing date: 12 April 2011

This award is voted for by schoolchildren in S1–S3 in the North East of Scotland.

• http://www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/libraries/young_people/grampian_book_awards.asp

The Heart of Hawick Children’s Book Award aims to get children excited about books and reading. Children from eleven schools in the Hawick area in the Scottish Borders choose the winning book, which must be for the 10-12 age group and by a first-time author. The awards were set up in 2008.

• http://www.hawickchildrensbookaward.org/

Children in the Highlands read, review and vote on their favourite books in three categories - Picture Books, Aged 8+ and Aged 12+.

• http://www.highlandschools-virtualib.org.uk/hba

Two prizes of £10,000 each are awarded annually: one for a biography and the other for fiction. Eligible works of fiction and biographies are those written in English, and first published or co-published in the United Kingdom during the calendar year of the award (1 January to 31 December). An announcement of the winners is made at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.

• http://www.ed.ac.uk/englit/jtbinf.htm

Closing date: The final submission date is now the start of December.

• List of former winners of the Kelpies Prize

This is an annual prize to encourage and reward new Scottish writing for children. The guidelines and regulations are: books for children aged roughly 9-12 years old, set wholly or mainly in Scotland, which are previously unpublished. The prize is £2,000 and publication in Floris Books' Kelpies series. The winner is announced at the Edinburgh International Book Festival

• http://www.florisbooks.co.uk/kelpiesprize

Closing date: February 2012

This biennial competition (next taking place in 2011) is organised by The Highland Council and the Neil Gunn Trust. The purpose of the competition is to celebrate the contribution of Neil Gunn to Scotland's literary heritage by encouraging writing about the contemporary world and the place of individuals in it. There are four separate sections to the Neil Gunn Writing Competition. The adult prose and poetry sections are open to all writers, the secondary and primary sections are open to pupils at Highland schools and to schools abroad with links to Highland schools.

• http://www.highland.gov.uk/leisureandtourism/libraries/neilgunn

Closing date: Check website for announcement of the 2011 competition deadlines.

This prize is awarded to a book that adds to knowledge and understanding of Scotland and the Scots. The award may be given to any book by an author or authors of Scottish descent or living in Scotland, it may also be given for any book which deals with the work or life of a Scot - or with a Scottish question, event or situation. The book will represent a significant body of research work which offers new insight or adds a new dimension to its subject.

• http://www.saltiresociety.org.uk/research.htm

Closing date: Check the website for the closing date for submissions which is generally around early September with the winners being announced on or around St Andrew's Day (30 November)

A creative writing competition for S1 and S2 pupils. Ten winners are offered the opportunity to attend Pushkin Prizewinners' Week where they are tutored by professional writers.

• http://www.pushkinprizes.net

Closing date: December, annually: see website

The Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship is run annually by the Scottish Arts Council and supported by the National Library of Scotland. It gives Scottish writers the chance to develop their work during a two-month stay in France.

• http://www.nls.uk

Closing date: Check with contact Fiona Graham on 07748 782 058 or email morrisongraham@btinternet.com

The Robin Jenkins Literary Award is a national writing award for £5,000 for a work of fiction or non-fiction and is designed to promote new Scottish writing that draws and builds on Scotland's cultural heritage using Scotland's unique environmental assets, in particular trees and forestry, as key elements in submissions. The first RJ Award in 2009 was won by Mandy Haggith for The Last Bear. The next award should be run in 2011.

• http://www.robinjenkinsaward.org

• List of previous Royal Mail Book Award winners

Previously known as the Royal Mail Children's Book Awards||, the Scottish Children's Book Awards are one of the biggest UK children's book prizes. They are an innovative nationwide reading project in which children and young people from every corner of Scotland read and vote for their favourite books in three age group categories. The awards are run by Scottish Book Trust.

• http://www.scottishbooktrust.com/scottishchildrensbookawards

This award of £1500 is for a book of Scottish historical research (editions of texts are not eligible). Nominations are invited from Professors of Scottish History and editors of historical review journals and publications.

• http://www.saltiresociety.org.uk/historicalbook.htm

Closing date: Check the website for the closing date for submissions which is generally around early September with the winners being announced on or around St Andrew's Day (30 November)

• List of previous Saltire Society Literary Award Winners

Two awards, Scottish Book of the Year (£10,000), and Scottish First Book (£1,500). These awards may be given for any book by a living author of Scottish descent or living in Scotland, they may also be given for any book which deals with the work or life of a Scot - or with a Scottish question, event or situation. The winners are selected from titles recommended by literary editors of newspapers, magazines and reviews concerned with literature, publishers of books, producers of book programmes in radio and television and other interested parties. The judging panel members may also suggest books for consideration.

• http://www.saltiresociety.org.uk/literary.htm

Closing date: Check the website for the closing date for submissions which is generally around early September with the winners being announced on or around St Andrew's Day (30 November).

Formerly Sundial Scottish Arts Council Book Of The Year Awards

• Lists of previous SAC book award winners - SAC Awards 1972-1978, SAC Awards 1980-2001, SAC Book Awards 2002-

The Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Awards are the largest literary prizes of their kind in Scotland, and the third largest in the UK. The four categories of awards are: Fiction (including the short story); Poetry; Literary Non-Fiction; First Book. The winning author of each category will receive an award of £5,000. These four winning authors will then be considered for the fifth and largest prize, the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book of the Year, worth an additional £25,000. The winning author will therefore receive an overall prize of £30,000. Experienced, practising publishers are eligible to submit titles first published between January and December 2009. Submission before the deadline is encouraged.

• http://www.scottisharts.org.uk/1/funding/apply/organisations/literature.aspx
• Email aly.barr@scottisharts.org.uk

Closing date: 31 December 2009

This award is chosen by 13- and 14-year-olds from the South Lanarkshire area. They vote for their favourite book from a shortlist decided by a panel of school librarians and others. The shortlisted authors visit the participating schools to speak about the inspiration for their books and writing in general.

• http://www.slc-learningcentres.org.uk

Inaugurated in 2010, the Walter Scott Prize is worth £25,000 to the winner and is in the top five richest book awards in the UK. The award is open to historical novels first published in the United Kingdom in 2009. For the purposes of this Prize, 'historical' is deemed to be where all of the events described take place at least 60 years before the publication of the novel, and therefore stand outside any mature personal experience of the author. Books may only be submitted by publishers. Books must be published in English in the UK between 1 January and 31 December 2009. This comes from Walter Scott's subtitle for Waverley: 'Tis Sixty Years Since'. The prize will be awarded at the 2010 Borders Book Festival between 17th and 20th June.

• http://www.bordersbookfestival.org/thefestival/index.php?page=walter-scott-prize-historical-fiction

For a submission form and any enquiries please contact Rebecca Salt on 01620 829 800 or walterscottprize@bordersbookfestival.org

The Wigtown Poetry Competition is the largest in Scotland with a first prize of £2,500, runner up prize of £750, eight additional prizes of £50 each and a Gaelic prize of £500. The winning poem and runner up will also be published in the Scotsman, or its sister paper Scotland on Sunday and will be invited to appear at the Stena Line Wigtown Book Festival 2010.

• http://www.wigtownbookfestival.com/poetrycomp

Closing date: February each year.

Some arts and literary websites have lists of major UK prizes. See for example:

• http://www.booktrust.org.uk
• http://www.britishcouncil.org/arts-literature-links-prizes.htm
• http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/books+culture/awardsandprizes
• http://www.literaryawards.co.uk
• http://www.societyofauthors.org/prizes-grants-and-awards
• http://www.scottishbooktrust.com/literary-awards-and-prizes