The Walter Scott Prize Academy

The Prize’s founder and sponsor the Duke of Buccleuch launched the Walter Scott Prize Academy in 2016.  Designed to broaden the global reach and strengthen the resources of the Prize, the Academy is an advisory group feeding into the submission and judging process, comprising people at the centre of literary life in the UK and in Commonwealth countries around the world, whose positions and knowledge give them a unique standpoint to help the Prize find its winners.

Walter Scott Prize Academy Members

Simon Savidge, Savidge Reads

Lola Shoneyin, Director, Ake Arts & Books Festival, Lagos, Nigeria

Frankie Murrey, Festival Co-ordinator, Open Book Festival, Cape Town, South Africa

Ahsan Akbar, Dhaka Literary Festival, Bangladesh

Vivian Bannerman, Main Street Books, St Boswells, Scottish Borders, UK

Karen Howlett, Cornflower Books blog, UK

Lynne Hatwell, Dovegreyreader blog, UK

Roland Gulliver, Associate Director, Toronto International Festival

Hal Wake, former Artistic Director, Vancouver International Writer’s Festival