2024 Women’s Prizes launch with judging panel announcements

The Women’s Prize judging panels have been announced for the 2024 Prize for Fiction and Prize for Non-Fiction.

For the first time, the Women’s Prize Trust have two judging panels to announce, as the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction is launched, and as the Women’s Prize for Fiction enters it’s 29th year. Blake Morgan is proud to partner with the Women’s Prize Trust.

Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction judges

Chair of Non-Fiction judges, historian and broadcaster Professor Suzannah Lipscomb is joined by fair fashion campaigner Venetia La Manna; academic, author and consultant Professor Nicola Rollock; biographer and journalist Anne Sebba; and author and 2018 winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction Kamila Shamsie.

Professor Suzannah Lipscomb commented: “Kate Mosse and I have long talked about the need for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction: the need to banish the lingering perception that non-fiction is men’s work by showing that authority and expertise are qualities that women possess in spades. This prize will shine a light on talented and often overlooked female writers creating brilliant, groundbreaking and revelatory work in genres that include history, science, philosophy, sport, nature, medicine, psychology and biography.”

Women’s Prize for Fiction judges

Chair of Fiction judges, author Monica Ali, will be joined by author Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ; author and illustrator Laura Dockrill; actor Indira Varma; and presenter and author Anna Whitehouse.

Monica Ali said: “It’s a great honour to be chair of the 2024 Women’s Prize for Fiction. I’m excited to embark on this literary treasure hunt, and deeply curious about what I’ll learn in the process about how women writers are choosing to engage with the world right now. I’m looking forward to reading across a broad range of styles, stories and cultures, discovering what themes might emerge, and pinpointing those singular voices that really stand out from the crowd.”

Blake Morgan is delighted to be a proud partner of, and the official legal provider to, the Women’s Prize Trust.