The Sunday Times / University of Warwick Young Writer of the Year Award opens for submissions

Raymond Antrobus. Adam Weymouth. Sally Rooney. Max Porter. Sarah Howe. Who will join this exceptional line-up of defining new voices as the 2020 winner of The Sunday Times / University of Warwick Young Writer of the Year Award?

Submissions are now open for the £5,000 award — which celebrates the best work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry by a British or Irish author aged between 18 and 35 — and close on Friday 22 June, 2020.

To be eligible books must have been first published in the UK and/or the Republic of Ireland, in the English language, between 15 June 2019 and 22 June 2020. The author must be aged between 18 and 35 on 31st December 2020. For full guidelines and details of how to enter, visit the Award page.

An unrivalled spotter of new writing talents at the beginning of their careers, the award’s list of alumni includes everyone from Robert Macfarlane to Zadie Smith, from Sarah Waters to Simon Armitage.

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