The HWA Crown Awards 2025
Celebrating the best in historical writing published between 1 April 2024 and 31 March 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 all about the winners and the superb long and shortlisted books on Historia.
The HWA / Dorothy Dunnett Society Short Story Award 2025
Can you transport a reader into the past? Many congratulations to the writers shortlisted and winning 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 O’Connor. You can buy the anthology containing all six stories on amazon.
The HWA Crown Awards 2024
Read all about the winning books on Historia. The winners were: For the Gold Crown – Disobedient by Elizabeth Fremantle. For the Non-Fiction Crown – Four Shots In the Night: A True Story of Stakeknife, Murder and Justice in Northern Ireland by Henry Hemming and for the Debut Crown The Tumbling Girl by Bridget Walsh
The HWA / Dorothy Dunnett Society Short Story Award 2024
Many congratulations to our winner, K.F. MacCarthy, our highly commended writers, Liz Kershaw and Elaine O’Connor, and our shortlisted writers Laura Karim, Muiread O’Hanlon and Cath Staincliffe.
The HWA / Dorothy Dunnett Society Short Story Award 2024
We are delighted to announce the 2024 HWA/DDS Short Story Award is open for entries. The deadline for submissions is 1 July and the entry fee remains only £5. Visit the award page to read the terms and conditions and enter. Best of luck!
The HWA Crown Awards 2023
The winners of the Gold Crown for fiction, the Non-fiction Crown and the Debut Crown were revealed on Wednesday, 22 November 2023 at an awards party at Crypt on the Green in Clerkenwell.
We’d like to thank the authors and publishers for their submissions. It was exciting and heartening to see historical writing in such good shape, and in so many diverse forms. We’re also extremely grateful to this year’s judges for their commitment and hard work. The winners were: For the Gold Crown – The Colour Storm by Damien Dibben. For the Non-Fiction Crown – The Captain’s Apprentice by Caroline Davison and for the Debut Crown The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho by Paterson Joseph
Dorothy Dunnett / HWA Short Story Award 2023
Read Jo Tiddy’s winning story on Historia. Black Christ by Judith Wilson and Dawn Rising by Anne Byrne were highly commended.