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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
MJ Porter
MJ Porter is the author of many historical novels set predominantly in Sixth to Eleventh-Century England and in Viking Age Denmark. Raised in the shadow of a building that was believed to house the bones of long-dead Kings of Mercia meant that the author's writing destiny was set. MJ Porter also writes twentieth-century murder mysteries set in the 1940s and a novel set at the North Northumberland country estate of Cragside in the... more
Douglas Jackson
I was born in Jedburgh in the Scottish Borders and history has always been in my blood. I left school when I was 15 to join the local paper because I liked writing and in those days universities were only for other people. Reporter, sub-editor, chief sub and night editor, I eventually spent nine heady years as assistant editor of The Scotsman, before digging an escape tunnel on the train with my laptop, which is probably my greatest and (come... more
Geraldine Roberts
Geraldine Roberts is a critically acclaimed author and historian specialising in the glitzy Regency era. Her books are meticulously researched from original letters and diaries, focusing on the achievements of real women and the complex dynamics within their marriages. The Angel and the Cad, was published by Macmillan in 2015. It tells the shocking true story of a high society scandal that gripped the Regency public and culminated in a... more
Maggie Craig
Maggie Craig writes Scottish historical fiction and non-fiction. Her non-fiction covers the Jacobite women and men of 1745, the Scottish Radical Rising of 1820 and Red Clydeside of the early 20th century. Her novels and family sagas are set in Edinburgh and her home town of Glasgow. She has served two terms on the committee of the Society of Authors in Scotland and is an experienced and popular speaker around Scotland’s libraries and book... more
