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The winners are:Gold: The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry (Canongate Books)Non-fiction: Moederland by Cato Pedder (John Murray)Debut: A Poisoner’s Tale by Cathryn Kemp (Bantam) Read more about the books and the shortlisted titles on Historia
The winning and shortlisted stories! Huge congratulations to our winner, Sean Lusk, our Highly Commended writers, Alex Edwards and Joseph Dragovich, and the writers of our shortlisted stories, Liz Kershaw, Sopie Lenoir, and Elaine O’Connor. You can buy the anthology containing all six stories on amazon.
Many congratulations to the writers of our longlisted stories. The shortlist and winning stories will be announced on Friday 3 October! We ended up with nearly 150 stories this year and the standard was extremely high. Many thanks to our first round judges for taking on the very difficult task of selected the longlist. We […]
The fantastic books longlisted for the Debut, Gold and Non-Fiction Crowns have been announced! Read all about them at https://historiamag.com/2025-hwa-crown-awards-longlists/
