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2023 Prize Calendar

Edge Hill Short Story Prize
- Winner: 13-January

Alfaguara Prize
- Winner: 20-January

Barbellion Prize
- Longlist: 21-December
- Shortlist: 25-January
- Winner: 15-February

PEN/America Prizes
- Longlists: 20-January
- Finalists: 15-February
- Winners: 2-March

The Story Prize
- Finalists: 10-January
- Winner: 15-March

National Book Critics Circle Awards
- Longlist (Barrios): 8-December
- Finalists: 31-January
- Winners: 23-March

Folio Prize
- Shortlist: 31-January
- Winner: 27-March

Republic of Consciousness - US and Canada
- Longlist: 24-January
- Shortlist: 14-March
- Winner: 28-March

Windham-Campbell Prizes
- Winners: 4-April

PEN/Faulkner
- Longlist: 7-February
- Finalists: 7-March
- Winner: 4-April

Republic of Consciousness - UK and Ireland
- Longlist: 1-February
- Shortlist: 16-March
- Winner: 26-April

Stella Prize
- Longlist: 2-March
- Finalists: 30-March
- Winner: 27-April

Granta Best of Young British Novelists
- Publication: 27-April

OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature
- Longlist: 8-March
- Shortlist: 2-April
- Winner: 29-April

Carol Shields Prize for Fiction
- Longlist: 8-March
- Finalists: 6-April
- Winner: 4-May

Pulitzer Prize
- Winner and Finalists: 8-May

RSL Ondaatje Prize
- Longlist: 12-April
- Shortlist: 26-April
- Winner: 10-May

Dylan Thomas Prize
- Longlist: 26-January
- Shortlist: 23-March
- Winner: 11-May

British Book Awards
- Shortlists: 17-March
- Winners: 15-May

International Prize for Arabic Fiction
- Longlist: 24-January
- Shortlist: 1-March
- Winner: 21-May

International Booker Prize
- Longlist: 14-March
- Shortlist: 18-April
- Winner: 23-May

DUBLIN Literary Award
- Longlist: 30-January
- Shortlist: 28-March
- Winner: 25-May

Jhalak Prize
- Longlist: 15-March
- Shortlist: 18-April
- Winner: 25-May

Lambda Literary Awards
- Finalists: 15-March
- Winners: 9-June

Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize
- Longlist: 4-May
- Shortlist: 18-May
- Winner: 10-June

Women's Prize
- Longlist: 7-March
- Shortlist: 26-April
- Winner: 14-June

EBRD Literature Prize
- Shortlist: 16-March
- Finalists: 27-April
- Winner: 15-June

Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction
- Longlist: 14-February
- Shortlist: 4-April
- Winner: 15-June

RSL Encore Award
- Shortlist: 31-May
- Winner: 15-June

Orwell Prize
- Finalists: 11-May
- Winner: 22-June

CLMP Firecracker Awards
- Finalists: 16-May
- Winner: 22-June

Premio Strega
- Finalists: 7-June
- Winner: 7-July

Miles Franklin Award
- Longlist: 16-May
- Shortlist: 20-June
- Winner: 25-July

James Tait Black Memorial Prize
- Shortlist: 29-May
- Winner: 26-July

Caine Prize
- Shortlist: 6-July
- Winner: 2-October

Nobel Prize
- Winner: 5-October

Kirkus Prize
- Finalists: 30-August
- Winners: 11-October

Deutscher Buchpreis
- Longlist: 22-August
- Shortlist: 19-September
- Winner: 16-October

Prix Goncourt
- Finalists: 25-October
- Winner: 7-November

Goldsmiths Prize
- Shortlist: 4-October
- Winner: 8-November

National Translation Awards for Poetry and Prose
- Longlists: 1-September
- Finalists: 11-October
- Winner: 11-November

Giller Prize
- Longlist: 6-September
- Finalists: 11-October
- Winner: 13-November

Cercador Prize for Literature in Translation
- Finalists: 15-October
- Winner: 13-November

National Book Awards (USA)
- Longlists: 13-15-September
- Finalists: 3-October
- Winner: 15-November

JCB Prize
- Longlist: 2-September
- Shortlist: 20-October
- Winner: 18-November

Warwick Prize for WIT
- Eligibility List: 28-June
- Longlist: 20-October
- Shortlist: 9-November
- Winner: 23-November

Polari Prize
- Longlist: 22-July
- Shortlist: 27-September
- Winner: 24-November

Booker Prize
- Longlist: 1-August
- Shortlist: 21-September
- Winner: 26-November

Center for Fiction First Novel Prize
- Longlist: 26-July
- Shortlist: 27-September
- Winner: 5-December

Gordon Burn Prize
- Longlist: 7-December
- Shortlist: January ___
- Winner: March ___

Is this helpful? We've talked about doing this before.

I was just about to thank you for this handy reference, David. Perhaps we may add Orwell Prize, National Book Critics Circle Awards (USA), Warwick Prize for Women in Translation.

Thanks so much! I usually spend an hour trawling sites so I can note the dates down n my diary

I find this very helpful, David. Perhaps could add the IMPAC Dublin?

Thanks. I’ll add whatever is suggested, provided I have dates to plug in. Suggesting prizes with this year's dates, or at least last year’s dates, would be much appreciated.

Thank you so much for doing this David :-)

Women’s Prize 2023 is 7 March, 26 April, 14 June

Thanks David that is extremely helpful.

May be one to remind ourselves as we discuss prizes during the year to also add dates to this list.

Some more from 2022 prizes still to be finalised

Edge Hill Short Story Prize winner 13 January

Barbellion Prize shortlist January (last year 10 Jan 2022)
Winner TBC (last year 12 Feb 2022)

And Hugh or Trevor - can we pin this at the top of the Other Prizes folder.

Paul wrote: "Thanks David that is extremely helpful.

May be one to remind ourselves as we discuss prizes during the year to also add dates to this list.

Some more from 2022 prizes still to be finalised

Edg..."

There's also The Gordon Burn but no dates yet

I would put October 5th for Nobel. It is always a Thursday and usually the first Thursday in October - it only is delayed for reasons (like the committee needing more time) and has I think stuck to the 1st Thursday for a while.

This is fantastic David, a great resource / time saver! I’m making a note to come back with dates for the 2023 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and Giller Prize when they are announced.

The Miles Franklin award dates should be finalized soon but the months are confirmed as:
May 2023 Longlist announcement
June 2023 Shortlist announcement
July 2023 Winner announcement

Thanks for doing this David - it looks a very useful list. I have now pinned it to the top of the thread as Paul suggested.

One I would suggest to add which is not strictly a prize but will I think be a very big deal is the Granta Best of Young British Novelists list due I think on 27 April 2023 - this is the fifth of a once a decade list which is considered very influential.

Dylan Thomas Prize (English language literary fiction by authors 39 or under)

Longlist February 2023 (2 Feb 2022)
Shortlist March/April 2023 )31 March 2022)
Winner 11 May 2023 (2023 date already set)

David wrote: "Thanks. I’ll add whatever is suggested, provided I have dates to plug in. Suggesting prizes with this year's dates, or at least last year’s dates, would be much appreciated."

Sorry, David, I meant to do it but right when I wrote that comment and wanted to look for the dates I got the text message that my early morning flight was delayed., Had to deal with it for 2 hours as I lost the connecting flight and am right now at the airport hoping that there will be no further delays because all the connecting flights for my destination today are sold out. Rant over. Will give the dates for these 3 awards whenever I arrive wherever...

Phyllis wrote: "I find this very helpful, David. Perhaps could add the IMPAC Dublin?"

The DUBLIN Literary Award (as now known) has a longlist on 31 January

Shortlist March 2023 (2022 was 22 March)
Winner May 2023 (2022 was 23 May)

Thanks all, I’ll update this morning. Vesna, that sounds dreadful. I’ve added the prizes you’ve listed based on last year’s dates.

I've long wished this info was centralized somewhere so thank you for pulling it together, David!

Marc wrote: "I've long wished this info was centralized somewhere so thank you for pulling it together, David!"

You're welcome. Happy to do it. The challenge will be keeping it updated.

Folio Prize

Shortlist 31 January 23
Winner 27 March 23

I think this prize is going to take in a new significance in 2023 - they deliberately have expanded to have separate fiction, non fiction and poetry categories following the demise of the Costa (and a few other prizes) so as to help fill a perceived prize void.

Gumble's Yard - Golden Reviewer wrote: "Folio Prize

Shortlist 31 January 23
Winner 27 March 23

I think this prize is going to take in a new significance in 2023 - they deliberately have expanded to have separate fiction, non fiction a..."

I completely forgot the Costa prize is gone. What a shame. It really does leave a void in my view.

Thank you, David, for entering these three awards besides, of course, all others. The only date for this year that I could find for these three is that the Orwell prize winner will be announced on June 22 and finalists late May/early June.

David, I just saw this. Thanks so much for doing this. Super helpful!

Thanks David, I'm also looking forward to the Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Award lists

https://www.bookcritics.org/gregg-bar...

Thanks, Alwynne. I’m interested to see how that plays out this year. I can’t tell if it has its own schedule or if it tracks the NBCC, but we will find out!

It already announced the longlist in December (we discussed on NBCC thread). Then after that

in January, all NBCC members will be able to vote for their favorite books to make the shortlist. The winner will be announced at the NBCC Awards on Thursday, March 23, 2023, in New York City.

You'd assume the shortlist would be the same time as other NBCC finalists (interesting though this has a 'shortlist' not 'finalists')

NB that also confirms date of the overall NBCC winners - 23 March

https://lithub.com/the-nbcc-has-annou...

Ah, that's right. This exercise is reminding me that no two prizes have the same process. Which is probably a good thing, except when you are calendaring dates.

Great to have this overview, thanks a lot!

Since you have the Goncourt, you may also want to add the:

Premio Strega (finalists June, winner July)

and the

Deutscher Buchpreis (longlist August, shortlist September, winner October)

But of course feel free to disregard if you want to focus on English language.

Thanks, Ruben. I'll add those.

Barbellion Prize shortlist Jan 25th.

This is a great idea, David! (Sorry, I'm late to the party)

Should the dates in the pinned message be 2023? Or are these last year's dates for reference?

The ones without year are 2023

Where no one has yet found the 2023 dates the 2022 dates are included as a guide to rough timing in the year

Thanks. I wondered if that was the case.

Just an interesting observation: English-language press releases are readily retrievable online for the Prix Goncourt, but the Premio Strega and Deutscher Buchpreis seem to communicate exclusively in Italian and Germany, respectively.

David wrote: "Just an interesting observation: English-language press releases are readily retrievable online for the Prix Goncourt, but the Premio Strega and Deutscher Buchpreis seem to communicate exclusively ..."

That's interesting David, and something they should and can easily improve. But the Goncourt is certainly the most renowned of the three (despite its famously low prize money of 10 euros! an idea for our BTBA prize?).

Fortunately, there are always news outlets that write English-language articles on the winners, which then find their way into newspapers all across Europe (at least for these three prizes that is the case). They are usually well worth a read (also the Nordic Council Literature Prize btw, but there even more people have to hope for a translation...).

Goldsmiths to add:

4 October – six-book shortlist announced

8 November – winner announced

Dylan Thomas
Longlist was 26 January
Shortlist 23 March
Winner 11 May

UK RofC longlist out 1st Feb incidentally

Dublin Literary Award longlist out Monday 30 January

Barbellion Winner Feb 15th

International Booker

Longlist 14 March
Shortlist 18 April
Ceremony 23 May

The proximity of the release of the Women's Prize and International Booker Prize longlists is always frustrating. Wish they were a bit more spread out.

I must admit I am thinking of switching my attention this year after a few years of WP - the WP seems to be getting more mainstream each year and it’s longlist is just too long. Alternately I think I may skip longlists of both and just read the two shortlists.

Gumble's Yard - Golden Reviewer wrote: "I must admit I am thinking of switching my attention this year after a few years of WP - the WP seems to be getting more mainstream each year and it’s longlist is just too long. Alternately I think..."

Given how many books you read in advance of their publication dates, you may well have read much of the longlist before it is released. I share your disappointment over last year's WP longlist so we'll see what they do this year.

I wasn't a WP completist last year, and this year I'll probably be even less so. But even with the disappointing shortlist/winner, there were a few hidden gems tucked into the longlist. Salt Lick and Creatures of Passage spring to mind.

The problem with waiting for the shortlist is that this group is usually championing the books that don’t make it to the shortlist.

Thanks! Very helpful David.

The James Tait Black Memorial Prize winners are announced mid-August. Not sure about Longlist/shortlist dates for 2023.

Added. That's one that wasn't on my radar.

One observation from putting together this calendar is how much work the PEN/America awards do. So many category-specific awards in the US are under the PEN/America umbrella whereas in the UK there are more unaffiliated prizes throughout the year.