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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
Angela M Sims
Angela is a writer of “compelling and extensively researched” historical fiction. Now retired, her professional background included 27yrs in clinical cardiology and 15yrs as a university lecturer, but her keen interest in the art and history of the Italian Renaissance sowed the seed for her first book, The Rose of Florence (2023), followed by Hiding the Flame (2025). She lives in Cardiff, UK, visiting Florence whenever she... more
Tony Aston
Tony Aston is a former Scotland Yard detective and counter-espionage specialist within the UK Defence Industry. His first book, "Redditch - From the Chip Shop to the Batchley", published in May 2022, tells of his life growing up during the 1950s and 60s in the Midlands town at a time when it was trying to repair, rebuild and reinvent itself after WWII. He has a great interest in 20th century civil and military history, demonstrated in his first,... more
Philip Kay-Bujak
Former British Army officer, Headmaster and CEO, I have been mostly writing biographies full-time since retirement in 2015. My specialist areas are the late Roman Roman Republic and the Wehrmacht during World War Two and I prefer to focus on new primary-source material through biographical research and the psychological aspects of my subjects . My publishers are Pen & Sword Military, White Owl and most recently The University of Kentucky... more
Jack Jarvie
Jack Jarvie has travelled to nearly fifty countries as a management consultant and on overseas missions. He has honed communication skills in church leadership, as a lay-preacher, and as leader of a Christian radio station.... more
