Nominate a book for the HWA Crowns using the form below. If you wish to nominate more than one book, you can use this same form multiple times. Once your submission has been checked by our administrator, we will invoice you. Each submission carries a charge of £35. There is no further charge if the book submitted is long or shortlisted. We will email you in the New Year with the judges’ addresses to request judging copies. 

For the purposes of these awards ‘Historical’ means predominantly set at least thirty-five years in the past for fiction, or dealing with subjects from at least thirty-five years ago in non-fiction.

The Crown Awards 2020 are for books first published in English between  1 April 2019 – 31st March 2020

Nominations close 15th April 2020.

The long and shortlists will be announced over Summer 2020 and the prizes awarded in November 2020. You can find coverage of the previous awards on www.historiamag.com

If you have any questions about the prize, problems with the form or want to check on a submission at any point, please email chair@historicalwriters.org