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We were delighted to partner with Luton Literature for their event to showcase our 2024 shortlist in November, just before the award announcement. If you weren’t…
Read moreWe’re delighted to announce the winners of the SI Leeds Literary Prize 2024 as follows:
1st place: Trapped Between Two Worlds – Maeve Clarke 2nd place: Da… Read moreWe would be delighted if you would join us for the 2024 SI Leeds Literary Prize award ceremony, taking place online on Wednesday 13 November at 1pm. The event is hosted …
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All at the Prize were shocked and saddened to learn of the death of Laura Fish. Laura’s death has come just days before the release of her third novel, Lying Perfectly…
Read moreFollowing a meeting of the judges, we are delighted to announce that the following six entries have been shortlisted for the SI Leeds Literary Prize 2024:
Trapped Between…
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We’re currently looking for volunteer readers to join us in judging this year’s SI Readers’ Choice Award, and we’d love your group to sign up.…
Read moreOne of the special things about the SI Leeds Literary Prize is our wonderful team of volunteer readers, who choose their favourite from our shortlist of six manuscripts…
Read moreWe’re delighted to announce the 12 authors longlisted for the SI Leeds Literary Prize 2024, whose eclectic submissions spanned a range of settings, genres and …
Read moreWe are delighted to announce that the 2024 SI Leeds Literary Prize will be open for entries from 1 April – 13 May 2024. You can submit your entry here. Before you…
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We are delighted to announce that Haleemah Alaydi has been chosen as the recipient of the Space to Write Bursary, generously supported by Arvon. The bursary is designed…
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As part of our 10 year celebrations, we’re delighted to announce the launch of a brand new anthology, featuring work from writers connected to our prize.
The Unheard…
Read moreWe’re delighted to announce that Arvon is supporting the 2024 SI Leeds Literary Prize by offering a Space to Write bursary, open to unpublished female writers of…
Read moreWe’re delighted to share that our 2022 Readers’ Choice Award Winner, Laura Fish, has signed a publishing deal with Manchester-based Fly on the Wall Press to release her…
Read moreCelebrate 10 years of the SI Leeds Literary Prize with the launch of our anthology The Unheard Voices, published by Peepal Tree Press and edited by Prize alumna Saima Mir.…
Read moreWe have created a short film exploring the partnership between SI Leeds Literary Prize and our longterm partner and sponsor, The Opportunity Centre, focusing on the creative…
Read moreOur mission is to create opportunities for Black and Asian female writers in the UK, and raise awareness of their work. Each prize sees six writers make the shortlist, and…
Read moreThe SI Leeds Literary Prize has been running since 2012, and in that time, we’ve seen entries from some incredibly talented writers. Some of those women, both our past winners…
Read moreSI Readers’ Choice readers, including members of SI Leeds, were invited to join an evening with our 2022 SI Readers’ Choice winner, Laura Fish, in conversation…
Read moreWe are delighted to announce that The Opportunity Centre 1st Prize winner of the 2022 SI Leeds Literary Prize is Suad Kamardeen for Never Enough. Many congratulations…
Read moreThe SI Leeds Literary Prize is looking to appoint an experienced freelance evaluator to support the Prize in its 10th anniversary year. Commencing in November 2022,…
Read morePrize alumna and former Prize judge, Winnie M Li, is launching her second novel, Complicit. Please do join her in Leeds on Thursday 13 October from 6.30pm for this event…
Read moreWe have an online event hosted by The Asian Writer to meet the 2022 SI Leeds Literary Prize shortlist on Tuesday 11 October at 7.30pm. Please do join us for this free…
Read moreWe are delighted to announce the six shortlisted books for the 2022 SI Leeds Literary Prize as follows:
Would you like to help us choose the winner of the SI Leeds Literary Prize SI Readers’ Choice?
We’re looking for enthusiastic readers to join us in judging the 2022 prize,…
Read moreWith the support of Arts Council England, we are delighted to be able to offer a new freelance role at the Prize for an Audience Development consultant, to help us spread …
Read moreWe are delighted that the 2022 Prize – our 10th anniversary edition – will be open for entries from 18 April to 2 May. Entrants can look forward to an expanded…
Read moreAnowa – A review
“A wayfarer is a traveler. Therefore to call someone a wayfarer is a painless way of saying he does not belong. That he has no home, no family, no village,…
Read moreMy writing process
I do most of my writing late at night. I usually start around 9pm or a little later and stop in the early hours. I begin with the outline of a particular scene…
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I’m in awe of those who write memoirs – it takes such generosity and courage to write about…
Read moreEmily Midorikawa, who won joint-third prize in the 2012 competition, and the author of A Secret Sisterhood: The Hidden Friendships of Austen, Bronte, Eliot and Woolf …
Read moreDo you remember Jan 2020? It was like fifty years ago. Back in that hoary past I had decided that 2020 was going to be my “stress-free” year. My doctoral viva would be done by…
Read moreI write novels. Occasionally I write short stories and poems when I have some ideas which aren’t big enough to base a novel on. They might grow over time, but I would see them…
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I write speculative fiction – literary fantasy, dystopian stories, science fiction and fables. Much of my work centres characters of colour and explores issues…
Read moreWe are delighted to announce that the Aspire-igen 1st Prize winner of the 2020 SI Leeds Literary Prize is Wenyan Lu for The Funeral Cryer. Congratulations!
Collecting…
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One of the few silver linings of this year’s pandemic is the fact that we are able to welcome a bigger audience to join us for the 2020 Prize award ceremony – we…
We are delighted to congratulate Lianne Dillsworth on the news that her debut novel, Age of Monsters, will be published by Windmill. The Bookseller said “Age…
Read moreWe are delighted that our 2018 shortlisted writer, Mona Dash, has secured publication of her shortlisted short story collection Let Us Look Elsewhere, with Dahlia Books…
Read moreDon’t miss the chance to hear our shortlisted writers in conversation with 2014 winner and author of How to Find Home, Mahsuda Snaith, as well as hearing our writers…
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