Women’s Prize for Fiction 2022 judges announced
The judges for the 2022 Women’s Prize for Fiction were announced on Tuesday, 9 November, marking the launch of the annual book award. Blake Morgan are delighted to continue their partnership with Women’s Prize and are looking forward to the celebration of female creativity.
Chair of Judges, Mary Ann Sieghart, is joined by Lorraine Candy, award-winning journalist and editor; Dorothy Koomson, global bestselling novelist, journalist and podcaster; Anita Sethi, award-winning author and literary journalist; and Pandora Sykes, journalist, broadcaster and author.
Mary Ann Sieghart commented:
It’s a great honour to be chosen to chair the judging for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. There are so many fabulous contemporary female writers who deserve to be better read. I hope that our longlist, shortlist and final winner will inspire new readers, male and female, to sample the extraordinary variety of fiction created by women today.
The Women’s Prize for Fiction is awarded for the best full-length novel of the year written in English and published in the United Kingdom between 1 April 2021 and 31 March 2022. The Prize champions excellence, originality and accessibility in women’s writing, and the winner receives a cheque for £30,000, anonymously endowed, along with a limited edition bronze statuette known as the ‘Bessie’, created and donated by the artist Grizel Niven. The 2021 winner of the Women’s Prize was Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi (Bloomsbury publishing).
The 2022 Women’s Prize for Fiction judges. Pic credit: Sam Holden Agency for the Women’s Prize for Fiction.
Blake Morgan and the Women's Prize for Fiction
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