We're delighted to announce the winners of the 2024 SI Leeds Literary Prize.

✨1st & SI Readers' Choice winner: Maeve Clarke, Trapped Between Two Worlds
✨2nd: Arathi Menon, Da
✨3rd: Jac Shreeves-Lee, The House that Jack Built and other stories

Congratulations to our winners!

We're delighted to announce the shortlist for the 2024 SI Leeds Literary Prize, which features six wonderful writers. Congratulations! 🎉

The winners will be announced in an online ceremony on Wednesday 13 November, hosted by Ilkley Literature Festival.

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⏰ Last chance to sign up! ⏰

If you're a book lover and you'd like to be part of our 2024 SI Readers' Choice Award volunteer judging panel, get in touch by 30 August.

🔗 Details on our website: www.sileedsliteraryprize.com/were-looking...

📢 Calling book groups! 📚

We need volunteer judges for the SI Readers’ Choice Award: sign up & you could get an online author visit from 2022 winner Laura Fish to discuss her winning novel, Lying Perfectly Still.

Limited places. Sign up by 30 August.

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Do you love reading? We're looking for book lovers to join our volunteer SI Readers' Choice Award team and help judge the 2024 prize!

Judging takes places through Sep & Oct. Find out more on our website: www.sileedsliteraryprize.com/were-looking...

Exciting news! We're delighted to announce the longlist for the 2024 SI Leeds Literary Prize.

Read more on our website: www.sileedsliteraryprize.com/2024-si-leed...

Thank you to everyone who entered this year, and congratulations to the longlisted writers!

There are just three days left to enter this year's prize!

Polish up those manuscripts and send us your work, we can't wait to read it 💕

Enter here 👉 www.sileedsliteraryprize.com

The SI Leeds Literary Prize is for UK-based Black and Asian women writers and offers an array of prizes and writer development opportunities.

Our 2024 prize is open for entries until 13 May.

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Writers: if you haven't got your entries in yet, there's still time to enter this year's prize.

There are plenty of development opportunities for long and shortlisted writers, including coaching, manuscript assessments & mentoring, plus prize money for the winners!

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Thanks to the support of some of previous winning writers, we're offering bursaries to low-income writers who would like to enter this year's prize.

Get in touch to request one!

Thinking about entering this year's prize?

Here are three reasons why you should!
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Deadline: 13 May

The 2024 SI Leeds Literary Prize is open for entries! Send us your manuscripts by 13 May.

Entries cost £10, but there are a number of bursaries available for those on low income.

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Meet the judges for our 2024 prize! Entries open on 1 April.

Find out more about the judging panel on our website: www.sileedsliteraryprize.com/prize-judges/

The SI Leeds Literary Prize is for UK-based Black and Asian women writers. Our alumni include fantastic writers such as @kitdewaal.bsky.social, @wenyanwrites.bsky.social, Winnie M Li and Amita Murray.

Our 2024 prize will be open for entries from 1 April to 13 May.

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