The HWA Crown Awards 2024
SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN.
Go the HWA Crown Awards 2024 page to submit titles for the Debut, Gold and Non-Fiction Crowns for 2024. You can see the fantastic titles which won in 2023 on Historia.
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.