HWA Crown Awards 2021

The announcement of the winners of the HWA Crown Awards 2021 will take place as a Youtube Premiere at 11am on 24 November. You can watch it here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL5z40X0FCU

Full details will follow on www.historiamag.com 

You can read about all the brilliant shortlisted books here.

The HWA / Dorothy Dunnett Short Story Competition 2021

Many Congratulations to our winner Naomi Kelsey for her brilliant story, Her Mother’s Quilt.

Details of the shortlisted stories can be found here, and an anthology of these brilliant pieces of work will be available shortly.

You can read about the winning stories from 2020 on Historia

2020 Crown Awards

We awarded three Crown Awards for exceptional historical writing at 6pm GMT on 25 November 2020.

Read all about them on Historia

The Crowns are open to any book first published in English in the UK between 1 April 2019 and 31st March 2020. The Debut Crown is for the best book by a debut novelist; The Gold Crown is for the best historical novel of the year; and the Non-Fiction Crown is for the best work of historical non-fiction. Submissions for the 2021 Crowns are now open.

Any questions? Do please email Imogen Robertson.