Tom Newlands’ novel, Only Here Only Now, has been shortlisted for two prizes at the Society of Author Awards. It’s the only book to receive a double nomination.
Published in June last year, Only Here Only Now has had praise heaped on it. This January the novel was also shortlisted for the 2025 Gordon Burn Prize.
Tom is an alumni of the London Writers Awards: he completed the programme in 2021. The London Writers Awards is our annual writer development programme that aims to increase the number of writers from underrepresented communities being taken up by agents and publishers.
The annual Society of Authors’ Awards recognises the best and most promising literary voices of the year. Only Here Only Now is on the shortlist for the ADCI Literary Prize, which encourages greater positive representation of disability in literature, and the McKitterick Prize, for a first novel by an author over 40.
The winners will be announced on Wednesday 18 June at Southwark Cathedral and will share a prize fund of over £170,000.
Congratulations and good luck Tom!