Demelza and Alice honoured at Baillie Gifford Borders Book Festival
7th August, 2017
By Lindsey Fraser, administrator of the Young Walter Scott Prize Every year we invite our two Young Walter Scott Prize-winners to the Borders Book Festival in Melrose, and we were delighted to welcome Alice Sargent and Demelza Mason, and their families, in June. They had both travelled quite a distance – Alice from Wales and… Read More »
First YWSP winner writes of her experience
8th June, 2017
Rosi Byard-Jones won the 16-19 year category of the very first Young Walter Scott Prize in 2015. Exactly a year ago, in June 2016, she travelled to the Borders Book Festival from her home in Reading to receive her prize from the Duchess of Buccleuch, alongside fellow winner Joe Bradley. In a blog post addressing… Read More »
The 2017 YWSP opens for entries as Imagining History workshops begin
6th June, 2017
The 2017 Young Walter Scott Prize is now open for entries. Budding young historical novelists aged between 11 and 19 have until 31st October 2017 to enter the creative writing competition, with a chance to win a £500 travel grant and a VIP invitation to one of the UK’s best book festivals in 2018.… Read More »
2016 YWSP winners announced!
30th March, 2017
Our judges are delighted to announce the four winners of the Young Walter Scott Prize 2016. You can read the winners’ stories by clicking on the links below, and all four stories are now available in a printed anthology that is free on request – please contact us using this link if you would like… Read More »
Our first winners’ anthology is published
30th August, 2016
You can now read the winning stories by our 2015 winners Joe Bradley, Rosi Byard-Jones, Iseabail Duncan and Alexander Leggatt, in a special anthology, When In The World?, published to celebrate the first year of the Young Walter Scott prize. A tin trunk unopened for decades since its return from China, a musical instrument used as… Read More »
The first prizewinners are announced
22nd June, 2016
The Young Walter Scott Prize judges are delighted to announce the category winners of our first ever Prize: 11-15 age group: Winner: Joe Bradley for A Very Unusual Childhood Runner-up: Iseabail Duncan for Whales Don’t Care 16-19 age group: Rosi Byard Jones for In A Time of Shadows Runner-up: Alexander Leggett for The Oak Tree. Joe and Rosi… Read More »