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We're the world's foremost literary prize for historical fiction & run the Young Walter Scott Prize. http://linktr.ee/WalterScottPrizes

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Walter Scott Prize @walterscottprize.bsky.social · Jun 12

Andrew Miller has won the 2025 #WalterScottPrize for Historical Fiction with THE LAND IN WINTER ( @sceptrebooks.bsky.social ), his novel set in a remote English community during the long, hard winter of 1962/63.

#TheLandinWinter #AndrewMiller

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Walter Scott Prize @walterscottprize.bsky.social · 9h

The brilliant and much-missed Hilary Mantel, who twice won the #WalterScottPrize for her Cromwell trilogy books, offers this advice to young writers approaching #historicalfiction for the first time. Writers aged 11-19 can enter the #YoungWalterScottPrize now. Learn more https://loom.ly/7gJ82-w

Walter Scott Prize @walterscottprize.bsky.social · 1d

The #HAMNET film, based on Maggie O'Farrell's #WalterScottPrlze shortlisted novel, is a front-runner to win an Oscar for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actress for Jessie Buckley: loom.ly/VEvwoA8

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Libraries Connected @librariesconnected.bsky.social · 2d

Over the next six days we want you #Librarians to take a photo - or several - showing what your library service looks like today.

This snapshot of library life in 2025 is part of our celebrations of the 175th anniversary of the Public Libraries Act.

www.librariesconnected.org.uk/projects/lib...

A smartphone showing the inside of a theatre on its screen.

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Walter Scott Prize @walterscottprize.bsky.social · 5d

Don't miss Maggie O'Farrell's reading recommendations, thoughts on the #HAMNET film and her advice to writers submitting their work to the new #HilaryMantelPrize, for which Maggie is the chair of judges. https://loom.ly/1-2eUxw Writers have until 31 December to enter the Hilary Mantel Prize.

Walter Scott Prize @walterscottprize.bsky.social · 6d

Learn more about the UK 1874 tour of Fisk Jubilee Singers with @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy this #BlackHistoryMonthUK, profiling the choir from Fisk University in Tennessee who sang for Queen Victoria. https://loom.ly/Ovj7M3w
#history #walterscottprize

Walter Scott Prize @walterscottprize.bsky.social · 8d

Young writers, there's a month until the deadline for the #YoungWalterScottPrize -- you can print off the entry form from our website http://www.ywsp.co.uk, and your story must reach us by post by the closing date of 31 October 2025. What will you write about?

#writingcompetition #youngwriters

Walter Scott Prize @walterscottprize.bsky.social · 12d

Our #WalterScottPrize winner THE LAND IN WINTER by Andrew Miller is on the @thebookerprizes.com shortlist. Learn more: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

The Land in Winter | The Booker Prizes

A masterful, page-turning examination of the minutiae of life and a dazzling chronicle of the human heart

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Walter Scott Prize @walterscottprize.bsky.social · 12d

"About 465,000 books are on the list of works pirated by Anthropic" apnews.com/article/anth...

Judge approves $1.5 billion copyright settlement between AI company Anthropic and authors

A federal judge on Thursday approved a $1.5 billion settlement between artificial intelligence company Anthropic and authors who allege nearly half a million books had been illegally pirated to train ...

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Northodox Press 📖 @northodoxpress.bsky.social · 12d

A reminder: you have today, tomorrow and Sunday to grab a copy of the Walter Scott Prize shortlisted The Mare before it goes off sale for the foreseeable.

Grab your copy of this unmissable and unnerving historical fiction novel here: share.google/xztqREaaPADC...

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Walter Scott Prize @walterscottprize.bsky.social · 12d

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Walter Scott Prize @walterscottprize.bsky.social · 15d

Congratulations to the mighty Andrew Miller, #WalterScottPrize winner 2025! THE LAND IN WINTER @sceptrebooks.bsky.social has just been shortlisted for @thebookerprizes.com

The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 15d

Here's everything you need to know about the six remarkable books on the shortlist and the stories behind them.

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Everything you need to know about the Booker Prize 2025 shortlist | The Booker Prizes

As the Booker Prize 2025 shortlist is announced, we’ve picked out the most interesting facts, trends and themes that have emerged in this year’s selection

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Walter Scott Prize @walterscottprize.bsky.social · 15d

Didn't he read well?

Walter Scott Prize @walterscottprize.bsky.social · 15d

Congratulations to Kevin Barry and THE HEART IN WINTER, shortlisted for this year's #WalterScottPrize, and now a @waterstones.bsky.social paperback of the year!

Canongate @canongate.co.uk · 16d

We are DELIGHTED to announce that these five books have been chosen for @waterstones.bsky.social paperbacks of the year!

ALL FOURS – Miranda July
THE LIFE IMPOSSIBLE – Matt Haig
THE SECRET PAINTER – Joe Tucker
RAISING HARE – @chloedalton.bsky.social
THE HEART IN WINTER – Kevin Barry

Waterstones paperbacks of the year:

ALL FOURS – Miranda July
THE LIFE IMPOSSIBLE – Matt Haig
THE SECRET PAINTER – Joe Tucker
RAISING HARE – Chloe Dalton
THE HEART IN WINTER – Kevin Barry

Available from your local Waterstones or Waterstones.com

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Walter Scott Prize @walterscottprize.bsky.social · 15d

Watch live! @thebookerprizes.com shortlist announced tonight. Fingers crossed for THE LAND IN WINTER, our brilliant 2025 #WalterScottPrize winner by #AndrewMiller @sceptrebooks.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6VO...

The Booker Prize 2025 Shortlist Announcement: Live Stream

YouTube video by Southbank Centre

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Walter Scott Prize @walterscottprize.bsky.social · 16d

#Writers, the Hilary Mantel Prize offers an exceptional new opportunity. The late author, who twice won the #WalterScottPrize, was committed to championing emerging talent, and the winner receives a cash award plus mentoring. Submissions are open through 31 December. See https://loom.ly/NFsTZjE

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Walter Scott Prize @walterscottprize.bsky.social · 19d

Fascinating writing inspiration for young writers thinking of entering this year's #YoungWalterScottPrize – imagine inventing the first seismograph...

Lapworth Museum of Geology @lapworthmuseum.bsky.social · 27d

Black Country-born John Shaw (1873–1948) constructed his prototype seismograph using anything he could get his hands on, from tin cans to old bicycle parts. This is Shaw’s own instrument, which he used in the seismic recording station at his home in West Bromwich.

Image by Greg Milner.

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Women's Prize @womensprize.bsky.social · 22d

It’s time to get writing… #Discoveries2026 is now open for entries! Discoveries is our free writer development programme and prize that supports unagented and unpublished women in the UK and Ireland to write their first novels. Hear more from our 2026 judging panel here: youtu.be/c1eO73MNnEU

Discoveries 2026 is now open for submissions!

YouTube video by Women's Prize

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Royal Society of Literature @rsliterature.bsky.social · 21d

Our Giles St Aubyn Awards for Non-Fiction remain open for submission until 5pm on Monday 22 September.

Apply online today for your chance to win a prize of up to £10,000 to support your first commissioned work of non-fiction: rsliterature.org/rsl-giles-st...

RSL Giles St Aubyn Awards for Non-Fiction - Royal Society of Literature

RSL Giles St Aubyn Awards for Non-Fiction Three annual awards — of £10,000, £5,000 and £2,500 — are available for authors engaged on their first commissioned works of non-fiction. The RSL Giles St Aub...

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Walter Scott Prize @walterscottprize.bsky.social · 20d

Those. Paws.

Walter Scott Prize @walterscottprize.bsky.social · 21d

"I was staring out of the window on a long and delayed train journey when a sentence appeared in my head: 'His father was ever a man of few words.'" #MaggieOFarrell describes the genesis of her new novel LAND, publishing June 2026, came into her mind. Read more
https://loom.ly/myocHIk #amwriting

Walter Scott Prize @walterscottprize.bsky.social · 22d

Listen now 🎧 loom.ly/8gRonuM

BBC Radio 4 - BBC National Short Story Award, BBC National Short Story Award 2025, Rain: a history by Andrew Miller

Andrew Miller is the first wrier in contention for the 20th BBC National Short Story Award

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 24d

Recorded on 4 Sept 2025 – Dr Gerard McKeever, lecturer in modern Scottish literature at @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social, speaks about Walter Scott’s relationship with Scotland, particularly through the lens of his so-called “Scotch Novels”
#C19th #romanticism
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Dr Gerard McKeever - Scotch Novels

YouTube video by The Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club

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Walter Scott Prize @walterscottprize.bsky.social · 26d

Bravo Andrew Miller, our #WalterScottPrize winner 2025, for his shortlisting in the BBC National Short Story Award with Cambridge University! Listen to Andrew's story, RAIN: A HISTORY, broadcast live on BBC Sounds on Monday 15 Sept https://loom.ly/8gRonuM

#AndrewMiller #TheLandInWinter #BBCNSSA

Walter Scott Prize @walterscottprize.bsky.social · 27d

Young writers, find inspiration at the #YoungWalterScottPrize website -- there's a list of writing competitions, samples of YWSP winning stories, and video interviews with tips from authors like Maggie O’Farrell, Hilary Mantel, Colm Toibin and Joseph O’Connor. https://loom.ly/7gJ82-w #youngwriters

Walter Scott Prize @walterscottprize.bsky.social · 29d

Did you see that #RobertHarris, winner of the 2014 #WalterScottPrize, has a new novel AGRIPPA coming next year? After Julius Caesar's death, his nephew Octavius and Octavius's best friend Agrippa will find their lives changed forever. https://loom.ly/SI35VTo