Walter Scott Prize
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We're the world's foremost literary prize for historical fiction & run the Young Walter Scott Prize. http://linktr.ee/WalterScottPrizes
In GLORIOUS EXPLOITS Ferdia Lennon uses a contemporary Irish voice for his ancient Syracusian characters, a distinguishing feature of the book that surprised his first readers. Learn more from the author and see an exclusive interview at https://loom.ly/EZ8G8Wo #booksky
November 19, 2025 at 10:59 AM
In GLORIOUS EXPLOITS Ferdia Lennon uses a contemporary Irish voice for his ancient Syracusian characters, a distinguishing feature of the book that surprised his first readers. Learn more from the author and see an exclusive interview at https://loom.ly/EZ8G8Wo #booksky
It’s 412 BC in Syracuse, and a production of Euripides’s Medea is being planned, using Athenian prisoners of war. If you haven’t read Ferdia Lennon's GLORIOUS EXPLOITS, a treat awaits you. See exclusive interviews with all our #WalterScottPrize shortlisted authors: https://loom.ly/EZ8G8Wo #booksky
November 17, 2025 at 11:06 AM
It’s 412 BC in Syracuse, and a production of Euripides’s Medea is being planned, using Athenian prisoners of war. If you haven’t read Ferdia Lennon's GLORIOUS EXPLOITS, a treat awaits you. See exclusive interviews with all our #WalterScottPrize shortlisted authors: https://loom.ly/EZ8G8Wo #booksky
Francesca Kay’s #WalterScottPrize shortlisted THE BOOK OF DAYS @swiftpress.bsky.social brings readers through a fascinating historical period: it's 1546, and reformists are enforcing the ban on prayers for the dead. Learn more https://loom.ly/uH2Ai88 #booksky
November 13, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Francesca Kay’s #WalterScottPrize shortlisted THE BOOK OF DAYS @swiftpress.bsky.social brings readers through a fascinating historical period: it's 1546, and reformists are enforcing the ban on prayers for the dead. Learn more https://loom.ly/uH2Ai88 #booksky
It’s 1540s, and a dying man’s final wish to have a chantry chapel built in his memory goes against the edict of the king. Hear author Francesca Kay on the story behind her #WalterScottPrize novel THE BOOK OF DAYS @swiftpress.bsky.social #booksky
November 10, 2025 at 5:20 PM
It’s 1540s, and a dying man’s final wish to have a chantry chapel built in his memory goes against the edict of the king. Hear author Francesca Kay on the story behind her #WalterScottPrize novel THE BOOK OF DAYS @swiftpress.bsky.social #booksky
Kevin Barry’s #WalterScottPrize shortlisted THE HEART IN WINTER (@canongate.co.uk) itself has a fascinating history. It would take 22 years from when Kevin first researched and drafted the novel until it found its final form. Have you read it? #booksky
November 6, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Kevin Barry’s #WalterScottPrize shortlisted THE HEART IN WINTER (@canongate.co.uk) itself has a fascinating history. It would take 22 years from when Kevin first researched and drafted the novel until it found its final form. Have you read it? #booksky
Publishers, thank you! Our #WalterScottPrize submissions window may have closed for this year, but we might just have to wedge our door open to make space for the bumper crop of entries as we unbox. Watch for our longlist announcement coming next February.
#historicalfiction #booktok #literaryprize
#historicalfiction #booktok #literaryprize
November 5, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Publishers, thank you! Our #WalterScottPrize submissions window may have closed for this year, but we might just have to wedge our door open to make space for the bumper crop of entries as we unbox. Watch for our longlist announcement coming next February.
#historicalfiction #booktok #literaryprize
#historicalfiction #booktok #literaryprize
Discover Kevin Barry’s #WalterScottPrize shortlisted #THEHEARTINWINTER (@canongate.co.uk). All this season we’re spotlighting the superb Walter Scott Prize Shortlist 2025, perfect for avid readers on your Christmas list. Have you read THE HEART IN WINTER?
November 4, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Discover Kevin Barry’s #WalterScottPrize shortlisted #THEHEARTINWINTER (@canongate.co.uk). All this season we’re spotlighting the superb Walter Scott Prize Shortlist 2025, perfect for avid readers on your Christmas list. Have you read THE HEART IN WINTER?
Our #WalterScottPrize winner THE LAND IN WINTER is now available to US readers from @europaeditions.bsky.social This magnificent novel is also shortlisted for @thebookerprizes.com. Have you read it yet?
November 4, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Our #WalterScottPrize winner THE LAND IN WINTER is now available to US readers from @europaeditions.bsky.social This magnificent novel is also shortlisted for @thebookerprizes.com. Have you read it yet?
Enjoy @thebookerprizes.com feature on #WalterScottPrize winner #AndrewMiller and his novel THE LAND IN WINTER (@sceptrebooks.bsky.social) which is shortlisted for this year's Booker Prize.
https://loom.ly/lxIRkYc
https://loom.ly/lxIRkYc
October 31, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Enjoy @thebookerprizes.com feature on #WalterScottPrize winner #AndrewMiller and his novel THE LAND IN WINTER (@sceptrebooks.bsky.social) which is shortlisted for this year's Booker Prize.
https://loom.ly/lxIRkYc
https://loom.ly/lxIRkYc
Publishers, you have until 31 October to send us your best historical fiction for consideration for the #WalterScottPrize 2026.The submissions deadline is almost upon us, and the shelves are very nearly full... https://loom.ly/6f5mw0k
October 29, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Publishers, you have until 31 October to send us your best historical fiction for consideration for the #WalterScottPrize 2026.The submissions deadline is almost upon us, and the shelves are very nearly full... https://loom.ly/6f5mw0k
Andrew Miller, author of #WalterScottPrize winning THE LAND IN WINTER, offers this advice to young writers. Don't forget, it’s the last chance for writers aged 11 to 19 to submit to the #YoungWalterScottPrize. Enter by post, before 31 October. Learn more: https://loom.ly/7gJ82-w
October 20, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Andrew Miller, author of #WalterScottPrize winning THE LAND IN WINTER, offers this advice to young writers. Don't forget, it’s the last chance for writers aged 11 to 19 to submit to the #YoungWalterScottPrize. Enter by post, before 31 October. Learn more: https://loom.ly/7gJ82-w
Ferdia Lennon offers his advice to writers 11-19 entering this year’s #YoungWalterScottPrize. Ferdia wrote the marvelous #WalterScottPrize shortlisted GLORIOUS EXPLOITS, set in Syracuse in 412 BC. Learn how young writers can enter this year’s prize https://loom.ly/7gJ82-w
October 17, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Ferdia Lennon offers his advice to writers 11-19 entering this year’s #YoungWalterScottPrize. Ferdia wrote the marvelous #WalterScottPrize shortlisted GLORIOUS EXPLOITS, set in Syracuse in 412 BC. Learn how young writers can enter this year’s prize https://loom.ly/7gJ82-w
Francesca Kay author of #WalterScottPrize shortlisted THE BOOK OF DAYS @swiftpress.bsky.social says sensory detail is vital when writing #historicalfiction. Do you know a young writer who should enter the #YoungWalterScottPrize? Learn more https://loom.ly/7gJ82-w
October 15, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Francesca Kay author of #WalterScottPrize shortlisted THE BOOK OF DAYS @swiftpress.bsky.social says sensory detail is vital when writing #historicalfiction. Do you know a young writer who should enter the #YoungWalterScottPrize? Learn more https://loom.ly/7gJ82-w
Angharad Hampshire, author of #WalterScottPrize shortlisted THE MARE, says putting yourself into the shoes of your characters is essential when you’re writing historical fiction. Young writers, enter the #YoungWalterScottPrize by 31 October: loom.ly/7gJ82-w #amwriting
October 14, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Angharad Hampshire, author of #WalterScottPrize shortlisted THE MARE, says putting yourself into the shoes of your characters is essential when you’re writing historical fiction. Young writers, enter the #YoungWalterScottPrize by 31 October: loom.ly/7gJ82-w #amwriting
Excellent advice to writers entering this year’s #YoungWalterScottPrize from Kevin Barry, author of #WalterScottPrize shortlisted THE HEART IN WINTER @canongate.co.uk. Writers 11-19, enter the Young Walter Scott Prize before 31 October: https://loom.ly/7gJ82-w
October 13, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Excellent advice to writers entering this year’s #YoungWalterScottPrize from Kevin Barry, author of #WalterScottPrize shortlisted THE HEART IN WINTER @canongate.co.uk. Writers 11-19, enter the Young Walter Scott Prize before 31 October: https://loom.ly/7gJ82-w
The brilliant and much-missed Hilary Mantel, who twice won the #WalterScottPrize for her Cromwell trilogy books, offers this advice to young writers approaching #historicalfiction for the first time. Writers aged 11-19 can enter the #YoungWalterScottPrize now. Learn more https://loom.ly/7gJ82-w
October 8, 2025 at 4:39 PM
The brilliant and much-missed Hilary Mantel, who twice won the #WalterScottPrize for her Cromwell trilogy books, offers this advice to young writers approaching #historicalfiction for the first time. Writers aged 11-19 can enter the #YoungWalterScottPrize now. Learn more https://loom.ly/7gJ82-w
The #HAMNET film, based on Maggie O'Farrell's #WalterScottPrlze shortlisted novel, is a front-runner to win an Oscar for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actress for Jessie Buckley: loom.ly/VEvwoA8
October 7, 2025 at 5:09 PM
The #HAMNET film, based on Maggie O'Farrell's #WalterScottPrlze shortlisted novel, is a front-runner to win an Oscar for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actress for Jessie Buckley: loom.ly/VEvwoA8
Don't miss Maggie O'Farrell's reading recommendations, thoughts on the #HAMNET film and her advice to writers submitting their work to the new #HilaryMantelPrize, for which Maggie is the chair of judges. https://loom.ly/1-2eUxw Writers have until 31 December to enter the Hilary Mantel Prize.
October 3, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Don't miss Maggie O'Farrell's reading recommendations, thoughts on the #HAMNET film and her advice to writers submitting their work to the new #HilaryMantelPrize, for which Maggie is the chair of judges. https://loom.ly/1-2eUxw Writers have until 31 December to enter the Hilary Mantel Prize.
Learn more about the UK 1874 tour of Fisk Jubilee Singers with @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy this #BlackHistoryMonthUK, profiling the choir from Fisk University in Tennessee who sang for Queen Victoria. https://loom.ly/Ovj7M3w
#history #walterscottprize
#history #walterscottprize
October 2, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Learn more about the UK 1874 tour of Fisk Jubilee Singers with @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy this #BlackHistoryMonthUK, profiling the choir from Fisk University in Tennessee who sang for Queen Victoria. https://loom.ly/Ovj7M3w
#history #walterscottprize
#history #walterscottprize
Young writers, there's a month until the deadline for the #YoungWalterScottPrize -- you can print off the entry form from our website http://www.ywsp.co.uk, and your story must reach us by post by the closing date of 31 October 2025. What will you write about?
#writingcompetition #youngwriters
#writingcompetition #youngwriters
September 30, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Young writers, there's a month until the deadline for the #YoungWalterScottPrize -- you can print off the entry form from our website http://www.ywsp.co.uk, and your story must reach us by post by the closing date of 31 October 2025. What will you write about?
#writingcompetition #youngwriters
#writingcompetition #youngwriters
#Writers, the Hilary Mantel Prize offers an exceptional new opportunity. The late author, who twice won the #WalterScottPrize, was committed to championing emerging talent, and the winner receives a cash award plus mentoring. Submissions are open through 31 December. See https://loom.ly/NFsTZjE
September 22, 2025 at 5:06 PM
#Writers, the Hilary Mantel Prize offers an exceptional new opportunity. The late author, who twice won the #WalterScottPrize, was committed to championing emerging talent, and the winner receives a cash award plus mentoring. Submissions are open through 31 December. See https://loom.ly/NFsTZjE
"I was staring out of the window on a long and delayed train journey when a sentence appeared in my head: 'His father was ever a man of few words.'" #MaggieOFarrell describes the genesis of her new novel LAND, publishing June 2026, came into her mind. Read more
https://loom.ly/myocHIk #amwriting
https://loom.ly/myocHIk #amwriting
September 17, 2025 at 4:09 PM
"I was staring out of the window on a long and delayed train journey when a sentence appeared in my head: 'His father was ever a man of few words.'" #MaggieOFarrell describes the genesis of her new novel LAND, publishing June 2026, came into her mind. Read more
https://loom.ly/myocHIk #amwriting
https://loom.ly/myocHIk #amwriting
Bravo Andrew Miller, our #WalterScottPrize winner 2025, for his shortlisting in the BBC National Short Story Award with Cambridge University! Listen to Andrew's story, RAIN: A HISTORY, broadcast live on BBC Sounds on Monday 15 Sept https://loom.ly/8gRonuM
#AndrewMiller #TheLandInWinter #BBCNSSA
#AndrewMiller #TheLandInWinter #BBCNSSA
September 12, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Bravo Andrew Miller, our #WalterScottPrize winner 2025, for his shortlisting in the BBC National Short Story Award with Cambridge University! Listen to Andrew's story, RAIN: A HISTORY, broadcast live on BBC Sounds on Monday 15 Sept https://loom.ly/8gRonuM
#AndrewMiller #TheLandInWinter #BBCNSSA
#AndrewMiller #TheLandInWinter #BBCNSSA
Young writers, find inspiration at the #YoungWalterScottPrize website -- there's a list of writing competitions, samples of YWSP winning stories, and video interviews with tips from authors like Maggie O’Farrell, Hilary Mantel, Colm Toibin and Joseph O’Connor. https://loom.ly/7gJ82-w #youngwriters
September 11, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Young writers, find inspiration at the #YoungWalterScottPrize website -- there's a list of writing competitions, samples of YWSP winning stories, and video interviews with tips from authors like Maggie O’Farrell, Hilary Mantel, Colm Toibin and Joseph O’Connor. https://loom.ly/7gJ82-w #youngwriters
Did you see that #RobertHarris, winner of the 2014 #WalterScottPrize, has a new novel AGRIPPA coming next year? After Julius Caesar's death, his nephew Octavius and Octavius's best friend Agrippa will find their lives changed forever. https://loom.ly/SI35VTo
September 9, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Did you see that #RobertHarris, winner of the 2014 #WalterScottPrize, has a new novel AGRIPPA coming next year? After Julius Caesar's death, his nephew Octavius and Octavius's best friend Agrippa will find their lives changed forever. https://loom.ly/SI35VTo