Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writer's Award
The Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writer's Award is given annually to two writers to support their work on a forthcoming book, either fiction or non-fiction, relating to the Americas.[1] It is supported by the Hay Festival and the British Library's Eccles Centre for American Studies. The winners each receive £20,000, divided into four quarterly grants, and have a research residency at the Eccles Centre, with curatorial support, and opportunities to promote their work at Hay Festival events in the UK and elsewhere.[2][3] The award was previously known as the Eccles British Library Writer in Residence Award[4] and the Eccles British Library Writers Award.[5]
Winners[edit]
Past winners, and the books (now published or as yet unpublished) for which they won their awards, include:[2]
- 2012:
- Sheila Rowbotham: Rebel Crossings: New Women, Free Lovers, and Radicals in Britain and the United States (Verso, 2016)
- Naomi Wood: Mrs Hemingway (Picador, 2014)
- 2013:
- Andrea Wulf: The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the lost Hero of Science (John Murray, 2015)
- John Burnside: Ashland and Vine (Jonathan Cape, 2017)
- 2014:
- Olivia Laing: The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone (Picador, 2016)
- Erica Wagner: Chief Engineer: The Man Who Built the Brooklyn Bridge (lBloomsbury, 2017)
- 2015:
- Sarah Churchwell: Mastery[6]
- Benjamin Markovits: A Weekend in New York (Faber, 2018)
- 2016:
- William Atkins: The Immeasurable World: Journeys in Desert Places (Faber, 2018)
- Alison MacLeod: Tenderness (Bloomsbury, 2021)
- 2017:
- Hannah Kohler: Catspaw[7]
- Bob Stanley: Let's Do It: The Birth of Pop (Faber, 2022)
- 2018:
- Stuart Evers: The Disappearances[5]
- Tessa McWatt: Shame on Me: An Anatomy of Race and Belonging (Scribe, 2019)
- 2019:
- Rachel Hewitt: In Her Nature (Chatto & Windus, 2023)
- Sara Taylor: Children of Sorrow[8]
- 2020:
- Chloe Aridjis: Reports from the Land of the Bats
- Daniel Saldaña París: Principio de mediocridad
- 2021:
- Pola Oloixarac: Atlas Literario del Amazonas [Literary Atlas of the Amazon]
- Imaobong Umoren: Empire Without End: A New History of Britain and the Caribbean
- 2022:
- Philip Clark: Sound and the City
- Javier Montes for Trópico de Londres [Tropic of London]
- 2023:[3]
- Ayanna Lloyd Banwo: Dark Eye Place
- Jarred McGinnis: The Mountain Weight
References[edit]
- ^ Bayley, Sian. "Six writers shortlisted for £20k Eccles Centre and Hay Festival Writer's Award". The Bookseller. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
- ^ a b "The Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writer's Award". www.bl.uk. British Library. Archived from the original on 30 September 2023. Retrieved 22 September 2023.
- ^ a b "Writer's Award 2023 goes to Ayanna Lloyd Banwo and Jarred McGinnis". Hay Festival. Retrieved 22 September 2023.
- ^ "The Eccles British Library Writer in Residence Award". www.bl.uk. British Library Press Office. 2011. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
- ^ a b "Eccles British Library Writers Award 2018 winners announced". The British Library. 21 November 2017. Archived from the original on 22 January 2023. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
- ^ "The two winners of the 2015 Eccles British Library Writer in Residence Award are announced". www.bl.uk. British Library. 2014. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
- ^ "2017 Eccles British Library Writer's Award". www.bl.uk. 2016. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
- ^ "Sara Taylor wins Eccles British Library Writer's Award". www.newwriting.net. University of East Anglia. Retrieved 23 September 2023.