Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize Explained

The Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize is a literary award for eight British writers of outstanding works of fiction, who each receive £5,000.[1]

Fiction Uncovered was established in 2011 by The Literary Platform with funding from Arts Council England, and became the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize with sponsorship from the Jerwood Foundation from 2014.

Past winners

Prize winners!Year!Author!Title!
2011
Night Waking
Nimrod's Shadow
Disputed Land
Forgetting Zoë
2012Two Cows and a Vanful of Smoke
My Former Heart
Lucky Bunny
Crushed Mexican Spiders
Hit and Run
When Nights Were Cold
This Is Life
2013All the Beggars Riding
How I Killed Margaret Thatcher
Black Bread White Beer
Orkney
Secrecy
2014Lolito[2] [3]
Mr Loverman
Little Egypt
Whatever Happened to Billy Parks?
Mrs. Hemingway
Vanishing
All The Birds, Singing[4]
2015[5]
Significance
Mother Island
Animals
Mobile Library

Notes and References

  1. http://www.alcs.co.uk/ALCS-News/2015/June-2015/ALCS-News-Bulletin-June-2015/Jerwood-Fiction-Uncovered-Prize-the-winners Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize: Winners Announced
  2. News: Haig . Matt . 2014-06-20 . What the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered prize reveals . 2024-04-24 . . en-GB . 0261-3077 . 5 March 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170305032122/https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2014/jun/20/jerwood-fiction-uncovered-reveals-marketing-matt-haig . live .
  3. Web site: 2014-06-23 . Awards: Jerwood Fiction Uncovered . 2024-04-24 . . 1 June 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230601051302/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2280 . live .
  4. News: Flood . Alison . 2014-06-20 . Evie Wyld wins prize double at Encore and Jerwood Fiction Uncovered awards . 2024-04-24 . . en-GB . 0261-3077 . 21 November 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231121032053/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jun/20/evie-wyld-wins-prize-double-encore-jerwood-fiction-uncovered . live .
  5. Web site: 2015-06-19 . Awards: Jerwood Fiction Uncovered . 2024-04-24 . . 27 October 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231027132350/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2532 . live .