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Historia giveaway! HWA Debut Crown Award 2020 shortlist

25 October 2020 By Editor

Historia’s running three HWA Crowns giveaways in the run-up to the 2020 Crown Awards announcement on 25 November. The first is for all six books on the Debut Crown shortlist. The Historia Debut Crown 2020 giveaway is open until 11.59pm on 3 November, 2020. The two winners will each receive all six books in the […]

Historia interviews: Laura Shepherd-Robinson

1 November 2019 By Frances Owen

The fourth in Historia’s series of interviews with writers shortlisted for the 2019 HWA Crown awards is with Laura Shepherd-Robinson. Her acclaimed novel, Blood & Sugar, is set in London and Deptford in the 18th century and is shortlisted for the HWA Debut Crown. The HWA Debut Crown celebrates new voices in historical fiction. Have […]

Historia giveaway! HWA Debut Crown Award shortlist

7 October 2019 By Editor

Historia’s holding three giveaways this October in the run-up to the 2019 Crown Awards. The first is for all six books on the Debut Crown shortlist

HWA Crown Awards 2019: the shortlists

5 September 2019 By Editor

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 2018 Crown awards – our judges

26 October 2018 By Editor

With the winners of the three 2018 HWA Crown awards announced on Wednesday, 7 November, this is a good time to say thank you to our judges, who’ve spent many weeks reading the longlists and choosing the shortlists and will have to make the hard choice of one winner in their Crown award category. The […]

2018 HWA Crowns: the shortlists

3 September 2018 By Editor

HWA Crowns 2018 gold shortlist

The Historical Writers’ Association (HWA) is delighted to announce the shortlisted books for the 2018 Gold, Non-Fiction and Debut HWA Crown Awards. Each shortlist category contains six outstanding books, ranging across centuries and continents and proving, once again, the richness, variety and vigour of historical writing currently being published in the UK. From all of […]

How to Write a Historical Debut: A Cautionary Tale

31 July 2018 By Ben Fergusson

HWA Debut Crown judge, Ben Fergusson, gives an inside view on what makes or breaks a historical

HWA Crowns Longlists Announced!

19 July 2018 By Editor

Thirty six remarkable books will fight it out in the race for the 2018 HWA Crowns, as the longlists

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