Deadline: 30 November 2024
The Society of Authors is thrilled to invite submissions for its Somerset Maugham Awards, enabling young writers to enrich their work through experience of foreign countries.
The awards are given for a published work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry.
Purpose
- The purpose of the prize is to contribute to travel abroad to increase the author’s experience or knowledge for their future literary benefit.
Eligibility Criteria
- The author must be a British national, or resident in Great Britain and Northern Ireland for three years prior to the date of submission for the award, and writing in English.
- The author must be under the age of 30.
Ineligibility Criteria
- Present employees (or anyone currently connected with the administration of the Society of Authors’ grants and prizes) or members of the SoA Management Committee may not apply for any of the grants and prizes administered by the Society of Authors.
Judging Criteria
- There will be three judges who may call in books if they so wish. The decision of the judges (both as to eligibility and the winning entry) shall be final and they reserve the right not to award the Somerset Maugham Awards if, in their opinion, no works entered reach a sufficiently high standard.
Application Requirements
- The work submitted must be a full-length book and have been first published in Britain and Northern Ireland in 2024.
- The work submitted may be poetry, fiction, criticism, biography, history, philosophy, belles-lettres or a travel book. Dramatic works are not eligible.
- Submissions must be made by the print publisher.
- Publishers are invited to submit a maximum of one additional call-in title.
- All submissions must have been written by the author and cannot contain the use of AI generated works.
- Maximum two entries per imprint.
- Once the form is completed please send five copies (non-returnable) of the published book or publisher’s proof (bound or unbound).
For more information, visit The Society of Authors.
