The HWA Crown Awards 2025
Celebrating the best in historical writing published between 1 April 2024 and 31 March 2025. Submissions are now open! Who will win this year’s Debut, Gold and Non-Fiction Awards? Due to some technical problems with the site (sigh) we extended the date for submissions for the HWA Crowns to midnight on Friday 9 May 2025. If anyone has continuing problems with the site, or you want to check that your submissions have been received, please email Imogen on chair@historicalwriters.org You’ll find all of the details here: https://dev.historicalwriters.org/hwa-crown-awards-2025/
The HWA / Dorothy Dunnett Society Short Story Award 2025
Can you transport a reader into the past? We are looking for unpublished stories of up to 3500 words for our 2025 competition. Entries are now open and you have until 1 July 2025 to submit. The entry fee is still only £5 and we look forward to reading your work.
The HWA Crown Awards 2024
Read all about the winning books on Historia. The winners were: For the Gold Crown – Disobedient by Elizabeth Fremantle. For the Non-Fiction Crown – Four Shots In the Night: A True Story of Stakeknife, Murder and Justice in Northern Ireland by Henry Hemming and for the Debut Crown The Tumbling Girl by Bridget Walsh
The HWA / Dorothy Dunnett Society Short Story Award 2024
Many congratulations to our winner, K.F. MacCarthy, our highly commended writers, Liz Kershaw and Elaine O’Connor, and our shortlisted writers Laura Karim, Muiread O’Hanlon and Cath Staincliffe.
The HWA / Dorothy Dunnett Society Short Story Award 2024
We are delighted to announce the 2024 HWA/DDS Short Story Award is open for entries. The deadline for submissions is 1 July and the entry fee remains only £5. Visit the award page to read the terms and conditions and enter. Best of luck!
The HWA Crown Awards 2023
The winners of the Gold Crown for fiction, the Non-fiction Crown and the Debut Crown were revealed on Wednesday, 22 November 2023 at an awards party at Crypt on the Green in Clerkenwell.
We’d like to thank the authors and publishers for their submissions. It was exciting and heartening to see historical writing in such good shape, and in so many diverse forms. We’re also extremely grateful to this year’s judges for their commitment and hard work. The winners were: For the Gold Crown – The Colour Storm by Damien Dibben. For the Non-Fiction Crown – The Captain’s Apprentice by Caroline Davison and for the Debut Crown The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho by Paterson Joseph
Dorothy Dunnett / HWA Short Story Award 2023
Read Jo Tiddy’s winning story on Historia. Black Christ by Judith Wilson and Dawn Rising by Anne Byrne were highly commended.