Nominations open for ADCI Literary Prize (UK)

Open to authors with a disability and/or chronic illness, the prize will call for entries of novels which include a disabled or chronically ill character or characters.

Funding Information

• The ADCI Literary Prize has a prize fund of £2,000.

Eligibility Criteria

• The author must self-identify as disabled or chronically ill.
• 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 work must be fiction and must contain one or more characters that are disabled and/or living with chronic illness (poetry, short stories, and works for children are not eligible).

Ineligibility Criteria

• Current employees 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

• The judges 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 ADCI Literary Prize if, in their opinion, no works entered reach a sufficiently high standard. The publishers of winning books will assist the Society of Authors in the publicity and promotion of the ADCI Literary Prize.

Application Requirements

• Submissions must have been published or self-published in the UK.
• All submissions must have been written by the author and cannot contain the use of AI generated works.
• Maximum two entries per imprint.
• Once you have completed the form please send nine copies of the book to the Society of Authors. Self-published authors are invited to upload a digital version as an alternative.

For more information, visit The Society of Authors.