The 2023 HWA Crown Awards are now open for entry! Details are at the bottom of this page and full information is on the HWA website.
To celebrate, Historia is giving away all six books shortlisted for the Debut Crown Award in 2022.
Two winners will each receive:
The Leviathan by Rosie Andrews
Moonlight and the Pearler’s Daughter by Lizzie Pook
The Deception of Harriet Fleet by Helen Scarlett
Hear No Evil by Sarah Smith
The Plague Letters by VL Valentine
The Spirit Engineer by AJ West
The giveaway is open until 11.59pm on 7 March, 2023.
Follow the instructions below to enter. You’ve got up to four chances to win and can enter using any or all of these options:
1. Sign up to the Historia mailing list. We promise not to send you spam and will never sell our mailing list. If you’re already a subscriber, just confirm you’re on the mailing list.
2. Follow us on Twitter
3. Tweet about this giveaway.
4. Visit and comment on Historia’s Facebook page. Tell us why you’d love to win this prize.
Please read the instructions carefully. And remember, if you’re a winner, you’ll need to answer our email within 48 hours (it’s all in the T&Cs, boring but useful reading). Good luck!
Read more about the books shortlisted for the 2022 HWA Debut Crown Award.
And see which of the six books won the award.
Get the inside story from some of the shortlisted authors! We’ve interviewed AJ West and Rosie Andrews about their books, their writing and their tips for new novelists.
The 2023 HWA Crown Awards
Authors and publishers of historical fiction and non-fiction, entries are now open for the 2023 HWA Crown Awards.
The HWA Crown Awards celebrate the best in historical writing. There are three categories: Gold (best fiction), Debut and Non-fiction.
This year’s awards are open to full-length books published for the first time in English in the UK between 1 April, 2022, and 31 March, 2023. For fiction, the bulk of the story must be set at least 35 years before publication, while for non-fiction, the key events must have occurred least 35 years beforehand.
Further information and entry form on the HWA Awards page.
