List of British literary awards

This is a list of British literary awards.

Literature in general

 * Barbellion Prize, for ill and disabled writers
 * Bristol Festival of Ideas Book Prize, for a book which "presents new, important and challenging ideas"
 * British Book Awards, the "Nibbies"
 * Costa Book Awards (formerly the Whitbread book awards)
 * Guardian First Book Award
 * International Rubery Book Award
 * Jhalak Prize
 * John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
 * Ondaatje Prize
 * The Orwell Prize
 * Saltire Society Literary Awards
 * Somerset Maugham Award
 * The Warwick Prize for Writing
 * Wellcome Book Prize

Fiction in general

 * Bath Novel Award
 * Commonwealth Writers Prize
 * Dundee International Book Prize (discontinued)
 * Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize (discontinued)
 * Goldsmiths Prize
 * Grindstone International Novel Prize
 * Hawthornden Prize
 * James Tait Black Memorial Prize, for fiction
 * Booker Prize (formerly the Man Booker Prize)
 * Rathbones Folio Prize
 * Republic of Consciousness Prize for small presses
 * Wales Book of the Year
 * WH Smith Literary Award (discontinued)
 * Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize (discontinued)
 * Women's Prize for Fiction (formerly the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction)

Humour

 * Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize
 * Comedy Women in Print Prize, the UK and Ireland's first comedy literary prize for women writers

Crime

 * CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger, for a thriller
 * CWA New Blood Dagger, for a debut crime novel
 * Dagger in the Library, for a crime writer, chosen by librarians
 * Duncan Lawrie International Dagger, for a translated crime novel
 * Gold Dagger, for a crime novel
 * McIlvanney Prize, for a Scottish crime novel
 * Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award

First novel

 * Author's Club First Novel Award
 * Betty Trask Award (discontinued)
 * Desmond Elliott Prize
 * Ruth Hadden Memorial Award (discontinued)
 * Waverton Good Read Award

Historical

 * Walter Scott Prize

For young people

 * Bath Children's Novel Award
 * Branford Boase Award
 * Stockport Children's Book Awards

Poetry

 * Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize
 * Cholmondeley Award
 * Christopher Tower Poetry Prizes
 * Eric Gregory Award
 * Forward Prizes for Poetry
 * Gaisford Prize
 * Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize
 * Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine
 * Michael Marks Poetry Awards
 * National Poetry Competition
 * Newdigate prize
 * Poetry Book Awards
 * Poetry London Prize
 * King's Gold Medal for Poetry
 * T. S. Eliot Prize
 * Ted Hughes Award
 * Welsh Poetry Competition

Speculative fiction

 * Arthur C. Clarke Award
 * British Fantasy Award
 * BSFA Awards
 * David Gemmell Legend Awards
 * Kitschies

Non-fiction

 * Alan Ball Local History Awards
 * Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
 * Bread and Roses Award, for radical, left-wing writing
 * British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding
 * CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction, for a work of crime non-fiction
 * Duff Cooper Prize
 * Hessell-Tiltman Prize, for a work of historical content and high literary merit
 * James Tait Black Memorial Prize, for biography
 * Orwell Prize for political writing
 * Royal Society Insight investment Science Book Prize for popular science
 * Samuel Johnson Prize
 * Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize, for biography or memoir
 * Wainwright Prize for outdoors, nature, UK-based travel writing
 * Whitfield Prize, for history
 * William Hill Sports Book of the Year
 * Wolfson History Prize, for history

Other

 * The Barker Book Awards - Celebrating Dogs in Literature
 * Brunel University African Poetry Prize
 * Caine Prize for African Fiction
 * Commonwealth Short Story Prize, for unpublished short fiction (2,000–5,000 words)
 * SI Leeds Literary Prize, for unpublished fiction (more than 30,000 words) by Black and Asian women in the UK
 * Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize, judged in three categories: fiction, poetry, and life writing; open to anyone who has not published a complete book