Fellows Award
The competition provides an ideal opportunity for students to enhance their CV through the publication of their work in an excellent high-profile journal that caters to a very wide range of genres, periods, and critical approaches.
2018 English 4-11 Picture Book Awards
Winning books Non-fiction 7-11 The Ways of the Wolf Smriti Prasadam-Halls, illustrated by Jonathan Woodward (Hachette Children’s Group) Non-fiction 4-7 The Big Book of Beasts Yuval Zommer (Thames and Hudson) Fiction 7-11 On A Magical Do-Nothing Day Beatrice Alemagna (Thames and Hudson) Fiction 4-7 Stardust Jeanne Willis, illustrated by Briony May Smith (Nosy Crow) Shortlisted…
2019 English 4-11 Picture Book Awards
Winning books Non- Fiction 4-7 The Rhythm of the Rain Grahame Baker-Smith (Templar Publishing) Non-Fiction 7-11 Ocean Hélène Druvert and Emmanuelle Grundmann (Thames & Hudson) Fiction 7-11 Ocean Meets Sky The Fan Brothers (The Quarto Group) Fiction 4-7 I Say Ooh, You say Aah John Kane (Templar Publishing) Margaret Mallet Award for Children’s Non- fiction Rebel Voices: the…
2020 English 4-11 Picture Book Awards
Winning books Non-fiction 7-11 Rise Up! The Art of Protest by Jo Rippon, w/foreword by Chris Riddell and illustrated by various (Palazzo Editions Limited) Non-fiction 4-7 A Million Dots written and illustrated by Sven Völker (Cicada Books) Fiction 7-11 Through the Wall written and illustrated by Jonathan Standing (The Salariya Book Company) Fiction 4-7 The Suitcase written and illustrated by Chris Naylor-Ballesteros (Nosy Crow)…
How to enter your book
How to enter your book Submissions welcomed for both fiction and non-fiction, in all age ranges from 4-7 and 7-11 years. There are four categories: Fiction for 4–7 years of age, Fiction for 7–11 years of age, Non-Fiction for 4–7 years of age, and Non-Fiction for 7–11 years of age. The book(s) should have been…
English Postgraduate Essay Prize
The competition provides an ideal opportunity for students to enhance their CV through the publication of their work in an excellent high-profile journal that caters to a very wide range of genres, periods, and critical approaches.
The Margaret Mallett Award for Children’s Non-Fiction
The prize has been established by the English Association in memory of Margaret Mallett, a Fellow of the English Association and a long-serving member of the editorial board of our journal English 4-11, who died after a short illness in March 2017.
Michael Murphy Memorial Prize Poetry Competition
A biennial prize for a distinctive first book of poetry in English published in Britain or Ireland.