Impressed you’ve done all the research so we don’t have to! I always listen with interest when I hear a shortlist/Longlist or winner has been announced even if I don’t necessarily read any of them. I like the way they bring books onto my radar though. I think I’d like to look into more prizes that are for a specific genre. Before I was really into literary fiction, I think the only prize I knew about was The CWA Daggers. I’m interested in hearing about the Arthur C Clarke as well. This was a very comprehensive list though. And who doesn’t want to read a nice miserable and completely horrible book?! 😂

Oh my God, Scott. You just exploded my TBR!

@GunpowderFictionPlot

6 ай бұрын

Bwahaha - Mission Accomplished.

Wow!! Best video ever--well not ever but so far on BookTube. Almost all my personal favorites mentioned and many I plan to follow. Would love to have seen the Hugo (sci-fi) and a prize for crime literature and The BookTube prize deserves at least a mention. I read a lot of Audio and this category really deserves another prize other than the Audies which I've never found to represent many of the books I've really found great in my listening. Thank you for all your hard work. I plan to watch again with pen and paper in hand so I can a favorites list. Pat yourself on the back since I can't do it for you.

@GunpowderFictionPlot

6 ай бұрын

Thank you so much. 😊 I can't believe I forgot the Booktube Prize!

I am a sucker for a good prize list. I always have a look into the shortlist and winner of the International Prize for Literature announced by the House of Cultures of the World in Berlin/Germany. A list I am also following, which is not an actual prize, is the yearly Readers of Europe announcement. Every year the permanent representations to the EU are each invited to recommend a book to read. The theme for 2023's campaign was ‘female authors’, the idea being that each permanent representation would select a book by a female author from their country. Not all of the books are available in a German or English translation of course, but it is always fun to check or at least read about what kind of book has been chosen to represent each individual country.

as you can tell by my channel name I am a longtime follower of book prizes and appreciate how much you have added to that world! Keep on reading and talking!🤷🏻‍♀️📚📚📚💖

@GunpowderFictionPlot

6 ай бұрын

Wow, thank you!

I’ve been saving this video until I had time to write them all down - that day is today!! Spreadsheet now under construction….

@GunpowderFictionPlot

5 ай бұрын

Yay for Spreadsheets! This video came about because I was making a spreadsheet.

@GemofBooks

5 ай бұрын

@@GunpowderFictionPlot 😂😂😂

There’s the Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writers Award, shortlist is usually announced in February. Last year it was won by Tom Benn’s ‘Oxblood’ which I really liked

@GunpowderFictionPlot

5 ай бұрын

I do like a young writers award as they introduce me to new authors and I see that Anne Enright was a judge last year too! Top shelf authors judging always get me extra interested

Scott, thank you so, so much for making this list and for making us aware of some of the lesser known prizes that promote equally interesting and brilliant literature. I didn't know about so many of these. Thank you again❤️

It's great to see a lot of the literary prizes in one video. I follow a couple of other Australian ones. A recent one that I've really liked is the Voss Literary Prize (I think the judges are usually academics from Aus Unis) it started in 2014. Robbie Arnott won it with Limberlost in Nov 2023. It's fun following the Australian Book Industry Awards and because I'm in Canberra, The Chief Minister's Awards. The Ned Kelly Award for Crime writing is quite fun too. Oh and The Readings Award (Readings bookshop has always has something interesting on their lists) and The Aurealis Award for Speculative Fiction is sometimes really interesting. Hardly need leave the country, lol

@GunpowderFictionPlot

6 ай бұрын

oh i love all of these! The Voss looks particularly interesting.

Neat. The publisher is periodically interested in those, so I might have to crib some of your notes :)

thank you for compiling this list! my calendar now needs updating😅📚✨👀

@GunpowderFictionPlot

6 ай бұрын

I'm so glad the info is useful!

Thanks Scott! Great video. So many I have never heard of.

@GunpowderFictionPlot

6 ай бұрын

Thank you. Yeah there's a few I hadn't heard of before I did the research too.

Oh wow this is the video I didn't know I needed. The Dublin prize sounds great with its rejection of publisher/agent noms. And the African prizes sounds interesting, I always want to expand my reading more. Goldsmith sounds interest although I'd have to see if it's a love it situation for me haha. Oh Barbellion sounds so interesting as well, hopefully it comes back! I'm with you, Women's Prize is my favourite to follow!

@GunpowderFictionPlot

5 ай бұрын

I really hope the Barbellion comes back. I think it's quite likely because it's about ill health and not about lack of funding.

This was great! Thank you. Just found your channel and can now binge 😊

@GunpowderFictionPlot

3 ай бұрын

Thank you enjoy. 😊

I love this video! I keep pausing and returning to it bit by bit, because--indeed--I AM watching while I do the dishes! And I want to write things down. So this is just an initial comment to say, wow! What a lot of work! I'm going to be reading the Republic of Consciousness Prize US and Canada longlist this year (hopefully). Thanks so much for sharing!

@GunpowderFictionPlot

6 ай бұрын

I watch so much Booktube while I'm either doing the dishes or cooking, it's like 90% of my watching time. I'm looking forward to seeing the longlist for the Republic of Consciousness Prize, it promises to be very interesting. Look forward to hearing you thoughts on it when you finish.

I don't need any more encouragement. I don't know yet how I'm going to approach March/April/May in particular, I want to read everything.

@GunpowderFictionPlot

6 ай бұрын

March is so hard!

Thanks for all the research and time to put this together. Was surprised when you said you didn’t mention some due to length.

@GunpowderFictionPlot

6 ай бұрын

There were so many I cut out, there's a Wikipedia page with over 100 prize, but it doesn't include every prize and some aren't current.

Great video! Thanks!😊❤

Thanks for this video about book awards, I didn't know many awards. I like it since thevast majority of booktubers focus on Booker Prize and women prize awards

@GunpowderFictionPlot

6 ай бұрын

Theres so many good prizes... Hopefully we will see more diversity.

@laurab2572

6 ай бұрын

@@GunpowderFictionPlot And a perfect way to discover new authors.that It's very unlikely that I read them without a book award

Great video, thank you for your thoughts and research.

@GunpowderFictionPlot

6 ай бұрын

My pleasure!

Thanks for this. Really useful.

@GunpowderFictionPlot

6 ай бұрын

You're welcome!

Oh no, these interesting pictures have completely ruined my taxidermy practice for the day. 😂

@GunpowderFictionPlot

6 ай бұрын

I'm sorry, taxidermy is one of those things that where once you fall behind its so hard to catch up on too. 😜

@AliceandtheGiantBookshelf

6 ай бұрын

@@GunpowderFictionPlot I’m glad you understand the struggles. 🤪

i like the welcome prize but it too is on a break..so many books so little time!

@GunpowderFictionPlot

6 ай бұрын

life's biggest dilemma :)

Thank you sooo much for making this video!! I have written down 6 that I'd like to follow in addition to the women's prizes. The Wellcome Prize is also on pause, which is the best books illuminating some aspect of medicine, health or illness. Great prize, sad to see it on pause too.

@GunpowderFictionPlot

6 ай бұрын

I hope the Welcome Prize gets what it needs to recommence!

A really comprehensive list! The Dublin Literary Awards are one I always follow with interest. There seems to be a great variety of works and a lot I haven't heard of before. I'm also really hoping the Portico Prize comes back! I'm not sure if you mentioned it, but the PEN/Faulkner is another one I find exposes me to at least one really good book that I hadn't heard of otherwise.

@GunpowderFictionPlot

6 ай бұрын

The Dublin Prize looks fantastic, also I love that their judges are librarians. Librarians feels like the correct people to judge for book prizes.

Another literary prize I’d bring your attention to is An Post ( the Irish literature awards) It’s in December I think and covers lots of different categories.

@GunpowderFictionPlot

6 ай бұрын

Thank you, I did not know about these awards and well, my tbr is going to need to go on a diet. I'm just browsing all the categories now.

Agree that Jhalak Prize is the superior prize 👏🏾 And their childrens one is pretty great too. I also really like the womens prize, as I tend to enjoy the winner book at the very list. As a big nonfiction memoir reading (and occasionally "hard nonfiction" that isn't self-helpy) I am very curious to see what they do with that list. But otherwise most go over my head. I hear of nero and also lambda quite a bit though, and sometimes take a peek at the list. The only list I've actually started to properly avoid is booker 👀

@GunpowderFictionPlot

6 ай бұрын

We agree on prizes! I'm also curious about the non fiction women's award. Very interested in that longlist and the direction they go in.

So many prizes!

@GunpowderFictionPlot

6 ай бұрын

So little time!

Im super interested in the Women’s Prize for Non Fiction! Since I dont usually read non fic and am never up to date with new non fiction releases, this award will be a great way for me to find things that i’ve never heard of, and expand my reading taste. My only prediction for this award at the moment would be Doppelganger by Naomi Klein since it had an overwhelmingly positive reception last year

@GunpowderFictionPlot

6 ай бұрын

I am really curious to see what ends up on the longlist for the women's prize for non fiction too. If it's anything like their fiction prize we will get a few big wow books, maybe the Fern Brady Memoir, and a few quality books that have gone under the radar.

@AliceandtheGiantBookshelf

6 ай бұрын

@@GunpowderFictionPlotsadly I think the Fern Brady might have been published outside the date window. 😕

@GunpowderFictionPlot

6 ай бұрын

Disaster!

Oof as someone who can only handle straightforward, linear stories I think I’ll stay far away from the Goldsmiths prize haha

@GunpowderFictionPlot

6 ай бұрын

Definitely one to avoid then. 😊

This is fantastic! I actually have an award spreadsheet, but it’s nowhere near as comprehensive as this. Thanks for making my life so much easier this year as I try to get into some of the awards this year. :)

@GunpowderFictionPlot

6 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful, I'm a bit glad to hear someone is as nerdy about prizes (and spreadsheets) as me.

There are lots of cool prizes here, but why is it so English-centric? Only a few allowed translated literature and none of the prizes devoted to another language besides English or books written in a country where English is not the primary language got listed. I understand the issue might be that many of the books in question would not have been translated for an English-speaking audience by the time the prize is announced, but that wouldn't stop people from going back and looking into older winners who might have translations, not to mention the people here who might know another language anyway. And I feel like if non English-centric literary prizes were discussed more in the booktube community, it might encourage translations to become available earlier.

@GunpowderFictionPlot

6 ай бұрын

Hey, I take your criticism. I can't read a language other than English and I went to everyone of these prizes websites to get the information and graphics. Please comment the prizes you think I missed. I guarantee book tubers will see your post and check out some prizes.

@anikbrinckerhoff1037

6 ай бұрын

@@GunpowderFictionPlot I have tried to comment twice giving detailed lists of non-English prizes but the replies keep getting deleted. Are you deleting them or is it just a problem with the computer? The second time I knew the reply showed up but when I checked the next day it wasn't there. Do you know why this is happening? Are you deleting it or is it the KZread algorithm, and is it something about what I wrote or just a computer problem? I'm getting really frustrated about spending a long time listing them only for the comment to disappear.

@GunpowderFictionPlot

6 ай бұрын

I'm not deleting them. KZread deletes certain comments automatically, sometimes the reasons aren't logical. I'm sorry this is happening.

@anikbrinckerhoff1037

6 ай бұрын

@@GunpowderFictionPlot Ok well since KZread insists on not letting me post a full list of prizes, I will tell you that you can find a big list on Wikipedia on "list of literary awards". And a big dream of mine is to see a book tuber cover one of these prizes, I understand the issue of some of the books not getting translations but I think the reason they don't sometimes get translations is BECAUSE no Anglophone people seem to be interested in these prizes, and if the interest was there the translations would come (and there are some prizes where being translated is part of the reward). If it won't let me do it in a comment, I would be so grateful if you could do a video going over some of the non-English prizes to introduce them to other people on KZread.

@GunpowderFictionPlot

6 ай бұрын

Thank you for the information. I will check it out - but, can I ask, why don't you be the change you wish to see? The Booktube community is super supportive, and you already have a fantastic niche.

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