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Society of Authors' Betty Trask Award

The Society of Authors' Awards are run for authors and judged by authors, annually recognising the best and most promising voices of the year. This year's event is generously supported by the Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS). Our awards for fiction are open to work from writers at all stages of their careers, from short stories to novels, and we accept submissions from both self-published and traditionally-published authors.

WINNER 2023

Mercia's take

Wiles, Daniel ISBN: 9781800750845
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1870s, the Black Country. Michael is a miner. But it's no life for a man. Michael exhausts himself working two jobs, to send his son Luke to school, so he won't have to be a miner too. Down the pit one day, he finds a seam of gold. If he gets it out, he can save his own life, and Luke's. But his workmate has other ideas... Mercia's Take summons an England in the heat of the industrial revolution, and the lives it took to make it.

Gripping, powerful and intense, it is the debut of an astonishing new talent.

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SHORTLIST 2023

Mortimer, Maddie ISBN: 9781529069389
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Crewe, Paddy ISBN: 9781804991022
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Wiles, Daniel ISBN: 9781800750845
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Crimp, Imogen ISBN: 9781526628916
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We also administer two awards that celebrate the best in non-fiction writing from young authors. Our poetry awards are amongst the most prestigious in the UK. They celebrate excellence in poetry from those just starting out as well those established in their careers.

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