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The British Academy Book Prize has received a grant from Hawthornden Foundation, enabling new projects such as webinars to support new writers.
The new funding will enable the £25,000 international prize — which celebrates well-researched, well-written non-fiction — to deliver on its ambition to support writers and emerging talent and continue its mission to share ideas about global cultural understanding. Hawthornden Foundation is a private charitable foundation that backs contemporary writers and the literary arts.
The British Academy will use the grant to fund a number of initiatives, the first being a webinar this summer to support new writing talent through the British Academy’s Early Career Researcher (ECR) Network. The webinar comes in response to last year’s survey with ECR Network members who expressed a need to increase their knowledge of the publishing industry and learn how to reach a wider public audience with their writing.
Professor Charles Tripp, prize chair, commented: “We are delighted with this valuable support from The Hawthornden Foundation. It is our ambition that the prize should go beyond simply celebrating great works. With their backing we can do more to further global cultural understanding by sharing ideas with a wider readership, by encouraging new writers and international talent, and by making outstanding scholarship accessible.”
Ellyn Toscano, executive director of Hawthornden Foundation, said: “We are pleased to be supporting the British Academy Book Prize in its endeavour to improve global cultural understanding. Well-written non-fiction has the capacity to broaden horizons and change minds. We are keen to support the prize in its ambitions to open up the humanities and social sciences and to support writers and new talent from around the world.”
Submissions for the 2024 prize are currently open and the deadline for submissions is 29th February.