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YA Book Prize 2025 submissions open
The YA Book Prize 2025 is now open for entries and is looking to celebrate the best young adult (YA) fiction titles from the UK and Ireland published last year.
A 10-strong shortlist chosen by The Bookseller team will be revealed in June and each book will be championed on the YA Book Prize’s social media channels. The shortlisted authors will be invited to appear at the Edinburgh International Book Festival (EIBF), which is a partner on the prize, where the winner will be announced in a live ceremony on Thursday 21st August.
Last year, the £2,000 prize went to Lex Croucher’s Arthurian romantic comedy, Gwen & Art Are Not in Love (Bloomsbury YA). Previous winners include Danielle Jawando, Alice Oseman, Juno Dawson and Patrice Lawrence.
A judging panel of experts, including EIBF’s children and schools programmes director Rachel Fox, will select this year’s recipient with the help of teenage readers who have shadowed the shortlist. The panel will be led by The Bookseller’s children’s editor and deputy features editor, Caroline Carpenter, who has worked on the prize since its inception in 2014 and chaired it since 2017.
She said: "I am truly grateful to my colleague Katie Fraser and the rest of the YA Book Prize team for steering it so successfully through its 10th anniversary year while I was on maternity leave. I’m really excited to be back on the hunt for the best homegrown YA novels as the award enters its second decade and the market is more robust than ever. Bring on the books!"
Entries are open to titles published between 1st January and 31st December 2024 that are aimed at readers aged between 14 and 18 years old and written by an author resident in the UK or Ireland. Self-published books are not eligible and entries must be made by publishers. Each publisher is allowed to enter up to four titles per imprint or company.
More information, including full entry details and terms and conditions, can be found on the YA Book Prize website. Entries close on Friday 7th March 2025.
