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Prizes, grants and awards
Encore Award
The Encore Award, now awarded biennially, was first awarded in 1990. The Encore Award will next be awarded in 2009 for the best second novel of 2007 and 2008.
For further information contact Paula Johnson on 020 7373 6642 pjohnson@societyofauthors.org / Canongate 0131 557 5111
Click here to download the entry form for the 2009 Award.
See also
Awards and Prize Winners 2008
Betty Trask Prize and Awards
Betty Trask Prizes and Awards (past winners)
Cholmondeley Awards for Poets
Cholmondeley Awards for Poets (past winners)
Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography
Elizabeth Longford Prize (past winners)
Encore Award (past winners)
Eric Gregory Awards
Eric Gregory Trust Fund Awards (winners)
McKitterick Prize
McKitterick Prize (past winners)
Prizes ofr fiction and non-fiction
Sagittarius Prize (past winners)
Somerset Maugham Awards
Somerset Maugham Awards (past winners)
The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year
The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year (past winners)
Tom Gallon Trust Award and The Olive Cook Prize
Tom-Gallon Award for a short story (past winners)
Travelling Scholarships