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HWA Crown Award Winners 2025
The winners are:Gold: The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry (Canongate Books)Non-fiction: Moederland by Cato Pedder (John Murray)Debut: A Poisoner’s Tale by Cathryn Kemp (Bantam) Read more about the books and the shortlisted titles on... more
Dorothy Dunnett / HWA Short Story Competition 2025
The winning and shortlisted stories! Huge congratulations to our winner, Sean Lusk, our Highly Commended writers, Alex Edwards and Joseph Dragovich, and the writers of our shortlisted stories, Liz Kershaw, Sopie Lenoir, and Elaine... more
Dorothy Dunnett Society / HWA Short Story Competition Longlist
Many congratulations to the writers of our longlisted stories. The shortlist and winning stories will be announced on Friday 3 October! We ended up with nearly 150 stories this year and the standard was extremely high. Many thanks to our first... moreauthor showcase
Elisabeth Storrs
Elisabeth Storrs has a great love for history and myths. A former lawyer,she is the founder of the Historical Novel Society Australasia and the $155,000 ARA Historical Novel Prize. Her obsession previously lay with Rome and the Etruscans but now she is absorbed with Trojan treasure and twisted Germanic history with her new release, Fables & Lies: A World War II Novel endorsed by Olivia Hawker and Kate Forsyth. She lives in Sydney with her... more
Alison Baxter
Alison is a historian with a passionate interest in the lives of ordinary people, especially the forgotten stories she finds in the newspaper archive. She worked in educational publishing and the charity sector before returning to full time study to complete an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. She went on to gain a PhD in Creative Writing at Oxford Brookes, and was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.... more
Flora Johnston
Flora Johnston is a writer from Edinburgh telling stories from Scotland and beyond. She is currently immersed in a series of four novels exploring social and political change, women's lives and the impact of war in the first half of the twentieth century. The series began with The Paris Peacemakers, which tells the story of three Scots and their struggle to rebuild their lives after the trauma of the First World War. It takes place... more
Chris Lloyd
After graduating in Spanish and French, Chris Lloyd lived in Catalonia, where he worked in educational publishing and as a travel writer. More recently, he worked as a Catalan and Spanish translator. He has also lived in Grenoble, researching the French Resistance movement. He writes the Occupation series, featuring Eddie Giral, a French police detective in Paris under Nazi rule. The first book in the series, The Unwanted Dead, won the HWA... more
