It gives us great pleasure to announce the winning and shortlisted stories in the 2026 Historical Writers’ Association (HWA) Dorothy Dunnett Short Story Competition. The winning story in the 2026 HWA Dorothy Dunnett Short Story Competition The winner of the 2026 HWA Dorothy Dunnett Short Story Competition: Just A Couple Of Sparrows by Valerie HoareOur […]
The HWA Dorothy Dunnett Short Story Competition longlist for 2026
We’re excited to announce the longlist for the 2026 Historical Writers’ Association (HWA) Dorothy Dunnett Short Story Competition: 25 impressive pieces of historical short fiction which go through to the next round of judging. Congratulations to all the longlisted authors! The HWA Dorothy Dunnett Short Story Competition 2026 longlist: Miscellaneous Papers by Aeman Abbasi Shepherd’s […]
The winners! The HWA Crown Awards 2025
The Historical Writers’ Association (HWA) is delighted to announce the winners of the 2025 HWA Crown Awards, celebrating the best in recent historical writing, fiction and non-fiction! The winners of the Gold Crown for fiction, the Non-fiction Crown and the Debut Crown were revealed on Wednesday, 19 November, at an awards party at Crypt on […]
The 2023 HWA Crown Awards shortlists
It’s a pleasure to announce the HWA Crown Awards shortlists for 2023: 18 books celebrating the best in historical writing, fiction and non-fiction, published during 2022–2023. There are three awards categories: HWA Gold Crown, HWA Non-fiction Crown, and HWA Debut Crown. The books shortlisted for the HWA Crown Awards for 2023 are: Debut Crown Award […]
The 2020 HWA Dorothy Dunnett Short Story Competition shortlist
We’re delighted to announce the shortlist for the 2020 HWA Dorothy Dunnett Society Competition for an unpublished short story. The HWA/DDS Shortlist 2020 Lakshmi Will Return by Padmini B Sankar A powerful story of loss and yearning, war and division. Moving, thought-provoking and evocative. Mavourneen by Annie Friedlein The muse of artist James Tissot gains […]
HWA Crown Awards 2019: the shortlists
The 18 books shortlisted for HWA Crown Awards in 2019 have been announced. The search is now on to find the winners in the three awards categories: Gold Crown, Sharpe Books Non-fiction Crown and Debut Crown. The shortlisted books are: HWA Gold Crown Award 2019 Little by Edward Carey (Aardvark Bureau) In Little, Edward Carey brings the […]
The HWA and Sharpe Books Unpublished Novel Award: interview with Richard Foreman
Historia talks to Richard Foreman about about the HWA and Sharpe Books Unpublished Novel Award