British Sign Language interpreter Michelle Wood shares information in BSL about the Wellcome Collection Non-Fiction Awards. Find out more about the programme in text by clicking here.
Introduction to Application Pack
About Spread the Word
About the Wellcome Collection Non-Fiction Awards
Eligibility Requirements
How we define Non-Fiction about Health and Being Human
What you need to do to apply
How is it judged?
Key Dates
Bursary, Access and Travel Funds
Frequently Asked Questions
Terms and Conditions
Published on 7 October 2024
class="post-70604 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-opportunities category-wellcome-collection-non-fiction-awards"Applications open for Wellcome Collection Non-Fiction AwardsApplications to the Wellcome Collection Non-Fiction Awards are open from midday on Tuesday 1 October to 5pm on Monday 11 November.
There will be a free online information session on Tuesday 8 October, 7pm-8pm. Sign up for it here.
The Wellcome Collection Non-Fiction Awards Application Pack gives details on eligibility, bursaries, access, FAQs and terms and conditions.
Please click here to download the Application Pack in text pdf format.
You can also view it here:
Please click here to download the inclusive read version of the Application Pack.
Click here for a playlist that has the Application Pack in BSL. The first video is here:
To help you prepare you application we have created a drafting document with the questions we ask and additional information. Please click here to download the drafting document.
How to apply to the Wellcome Collection Non-Fiction Awards
There are 2 options on how to apply for the programme:
- Online Application Form via Submittable (text only)
- Online Application Form for Audio or Video Submissions via Submittable
Here are the Submittable links:
Text form: https://spreadtheword.submittable.com/submit/307297/wellcome-collection-non-fiction-awards
Audio/Video form: https://spreadtheword.submittable.com/submit/307300/wellcome-collection-non-fiction-awards-audio-or-video-submission
Late entries will not be considered. After you apply for the Wellcome Collection Non-Fiction Awards, you will receive an automatic email confirming receipt of your application. Your application will be read anonymously by a team of first readers who will make recommendations to the judges and the Spread the Word and Wellcome Collection publishing teams.
A shortlist of applicants will be invited to an interview either in person in London or online with the Spread the Word and Wellcome Collection publishing teams on the following date:
Wednesday 5 February 2025
Spread the Word will contact everyone who submits an application by 24 January 2025.
Want to get in touch?
If you have read all of the application pack and links and you still have a question about the Wellcome Collection Non-Fiction Awards that isn’t answered in them, please contact [email protected].
Published: 1 October 2024
class="post-70242 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-news category-wellcome-collection-non-fiction-awards"Wellcome Collection Non-Fiction Awards 2025 LaunchedSpread the Word and Wellcome Collection are delighted to launch the Wellcome Collection Non-Fiction Awards, following a successful pilot programme run in 2022. The new project aims to find and support writers from underrepresented groups, who have a big idea for a non-fiction book for general readers, that engages with the themes of health and being human.
Applications will open on 1 October to 18+, UK-based unpublished and unagented writers who are disabled and/or global majority. Up to six writers will be selected for a nine-month development programme to expand their non-fiction ideas to full-length book proposals. Applications will close at 5pm on Monday 11 November.
Judged by award-winning science journalist and author, Angela Saini and novelist and poet, Daisy Lafarge, the programme will offer each writer a £2,000 bursary, mentoring with an author, five masterclasses on writing non-fiction, insight and industry days and the opportunity to meet with agents. In addition, there will be a public programme of masterclasses and panel events to offer a wider range of support to aspiring non-fiction writers.
Each writer will also be offered one-to-one sessions with Wellcome Collection’s publishing team, research specialists and Stories editorial teams. In addition, aspiring writers can enjoy access to Wellcome Collection’s Library, a free resource with thousands of books, archives and manuscripts exploring personal and cultural relationships with health and medicine. Wellcome Collection will have first refusal on the projects.
Angela Saini said: ‘I’m delighted to be supporting Spread the Word for another year, this time as a judge. It’s vitally important to get voices from the margins into the mainstream, and I’m beyond excited to read the work of this year’s cohort.’
Ruth Harrison, Director of Spread the Word said: ‘We’re delighted to be working again with Wellcome Collection following the hugely successful pilot in 2022. For 2025, we’ll be running an expanded programme with a closer focus on accessibility and integration across Wellcome Collection’s different teams plus a new public programme to support aspiring non-fiction writers from underrepresented communities.’
Fran Barrie, Publisher at Wellcome Collection said: ‘We’re thrilled to be working with Spread the Word again to support more brilliant writers to develop their big ideas on health. We need books that represent the wide diversity of human experiences and perspectives, so we’re working to make the programme as accessible as possible. We can’t wait to get reading this year’s submissions!’
Applications will open on Tuesday 1 October at midday and close on Monday 11 November at 5pm.
The judges are Angela Saini and Daisy Lafarge. Click here to find out more about the judges.
The Wellcome Collection Non-Fiction Awards application pack, which includes Eligibility Criteria, Terms & Conditions and FAQs will be available online from 30 September 2024 in text, BSL video, audio and inclusive read formats. Visit the Wellcome Collection Non-Fiction Awards project page for more details.
A free online information session will be run on Tuesday 8 October, 7pm-8pm, for people considering applying for the Wellcome Collection Non-Fiction Awards. The session will be BSL interpreted. Click here to register for the seminar.
Published: 24 September 2024
class="post-70250 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-news category-wellcome-collection-non-fiction-awards"Announcing the Wellcome Collection Non-Fiction Awards Judges
Spread the Word is excited to reveal the judges for the Wellcome Collection Non-Fiction Awards. Following a successful pilot in 2022, the first year of this programme will run from March 2025 to November 2025 for 6 non-fiction writers working on a project about health and being human.
Applications are open from 1 October to 11 November 2024. Wellcome Collection’s Fran Barrie and Spread the Word’s Bobby Nayyar are running a free online seminar on 8 October at 7pm for potential applicants.
The judges are Angela Saini and Daisy Lafarge.
Angela Saini is a journalist and author based in New York. She teaches science writing at MIT and is a Moynihan Public Scholar at CCNY. Her work appears regularly in National Geographic, Science and Foreign Policy. Her 2019 book Superior: The Return of Race Sciencewas a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize, and her latest, The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule, was a finalist for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing. Angela has a Masters in Engineering from the University of Oxford.
Angela says: “I’m delighted to be supporting Spread the Word for another year, this time as a judge. It’s vitally important to get voices from the margins into the mainstream, and I’m beyond excited to read the work of this year’s cohort.”
Daisy Lafarge is the author of a novel, Paul (Granta 2021), which won a Betty Trask Award and was a New York Times Editor’s Choice, and a poetry collection, Life Without Air (Granta 2020), which was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. Lovebug, a short book on the poetics of infection, was published by Peninsula Press in 2023.
Daisy says: “I’m looking forward to discovering writing that is exploratory, unexpected and compelling. There can be so many barriers to getting published, and I’m thrilled to be part of an initiative that exists to demystify the process and support writers who might not otherwise access the encouragement and resources they need.”
Applications will be open from midday on Tuesday 1 October and close at 5pm on Monday 11 November. The Wellcome Collection Non-Fiction Awards application pack, which includes Eligibility Criteria, Terms & Conditions and FAQs will be available online from 30 September 2024 in text, BSL video, audio and inclusive read formats.
Visit the project page for more details.
Published: 24 September 2024
class="post-70337 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-london-writers-awards category-opportunities"Applications open for London Writers Awards 2025
Applications to the London Writers Awards are open from midday on Wednesday 25 September to 5pm on Thursday 31 October.
There will be a free online information session on Tuesday 1 October, 7pm-8pm. Sign up for it here.
The London Writers Awards Application Pack gives details on eligibility, bursaries, access, FAQs and terms and conditions.
Please click here to download the Application Pack in text pdf format.
You can also view it here:
Please visit this page to access the Application Pack information in BSL video and Audio:
https://www.spreadtheword.org.uk/london-writers-awards-application-pack-in-bsl
Please click here to download the inclusive read version of the Application Pack.
To help you prepare you application we have created a drafting document with the questions we ask and additional information. Please click here to download the drafting document.
How to apply to the London Writers Awards
There are 3 options on how to apply for the programme:
- Online Application Form via Submittable (text only)
- Online Application Form for Audio or Video Submissions via Submittable
- Paper Form for Postal Entry (large print)
Please note that the Submittable options will be live from midday on Wednesday 25 September.
For Option 1, we ask that you apply via Submittable for the genre you are writing in:
Commercial Fiction: https://spreadtheword.submittable.com/submit/303564/london-writers-awards-2025-commercial-fiction
Literary Fiction: https://spreadtheword.submittable.com/submit/303563/london-writers-awards-2025-literary-fiction
YA/Children’s Fiction: https://spreadtheword.submittable.com/submit/303565/london-writers-awards-2025-ya-childrens-fiction
For Option 2, there is one form on Submittable, where you choose the genre group:
Please note that the extract from your project must still be uploaded as a text file.
For Option 3, you can download the Postal Entry Form by clicking here.
Please post your entry to:
London Writers Awards
Spread the Word,
The Albany,
Douglas Way,
London
SE8 4AG
Please ensure that you post it so we receive it before the deadline of 5pm on Thursday 31 October.
Late entries will not be considered. After you apply for the London Writers Awards, you will receive an automatic email confirming receipt of your application. Your application will be read anonymously by a team of first readers who will make recommendations to the London Writers Awards judges and the Spread the Word team.
A shortlist of applicants will be invited to an interview with the Spread the Word team on one of the following dates:
Tuesday 21 January 2025 – Literary Fiction A and YA/Children’s Fiction interviews
Wednesday 22 January 2025 – Literary Fiction B interviews
Thursday 23 January 2025 – Commercial Fiction Interviews
Spread the Word will contact everyone who submits an application by 9 January.
Want to get in touch?
If you have read all of the application pack and links and you still have a question about the London Writers Awards that isn’t answered in them, please contact [email protected].
Published: 23 September 2024
class="post-69914 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-london-writers-awards category-opportunities"London Writers Awards Application Pack in BSLBritish Sign Language interpreter Michelle Wood shares information in BSL about the London Writers Awards. Find out more about the programme in text here: https://www.spreadtheword.org.uk/projects/london-writers-awards
Brief Information
Introduction to Application Pack
1. About Spread the Word
2. About The London Writers Awards
3. Eligibility Requirements
4. What You Needs to Do to Apply
5. How is it Judged?
6. Key Dates and Bursaries
7. Frequently Asked Questions
8. Terms and Conditions
Postal Entry Form
Published on 23 September 2024