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Guardian children's fiction prize

December 2016

  • Composite: Alex Wheatle and Nadja Spiegelman

    The Guardian Books podcast
    Nadja Spiegelman and Alex Wheatle - books podcast

    How life stories play out in memoir and fiction with the authors of family memoir I’m Supposed to Protect You from All This and YA award-winner Crongton Knights

November 2016

  • ‘I still see myself sometimes as “little Alex” who never thought he would achieve anything’ … Alex Wheatle

    A life in ...
    Alex Wheatle: ‘I felt like the token black writer who talks about ghetto stuff’

    The Guardian children’s fiction prize winner on facing his demons through writing and why he switched to YA
  • Alex Wheatle’s invented slang delighted the judges, who said ‘the language sings from the page’.

    Alex Wheatle wins 2016 Guardian children's fiction prize

    Author who says his time in jail inspired his love of literature triumphs with Crongton Knights, set on a fictitious inner-city estate

    • Books blog
      Zana Fraillon on writing about refugee children: ‘Their resilience keeps hope alive'

    • Books blog
      Brian Selznick: 'I wanted my story to exist between pictures and words'

    • Books blog
      Tanya Landman: 'The MPs' expenses scandal breathed life into history'

October 2016

  • Award-winning British writer Alex Wheatle witnessed the 1981 Brixton Riots, and was briefly incarcerated afterwards.

    Books blog
    Writing YA fiction requires new skillsets: slang dates more swiftly than X Factor winners

  • Authors clockwise from top left: Alex Wheatle, Tanya Landman, Zana Fraillon and Brian Selznick

    Guardian children's fiction prize 2016 shortlist announced

August 2016

  • a 1920s biplane in flight.

    Wild Lily by KM Peyton review – celebrating a sense of adventure

    A young woman’s bold and risky adventures captivate in the latest book from the 86-year-old author of the Flambards trilogy

July 2016

  • Young Critics competition 2016 logo

    Guardian young critics competition 2016
    Enter the Guardian young critics competition 2016

  • Guardian children's fiction prize logo

    Children's books
    Guardian children's fiction prize 2016, the longlist – in pictures

March 2016

  • Guardian children's fiction prize logo

    Children's books
    How to enter the Guardian children's fiction prize 2016

    Submissions are now open for publishers to enter the Guardian children’s fiction prize 2016. The closing date is 22 March 2016 so enter ASAP!

January 2016

  • Frances Hardinge

    Children's books
    Frances Hardinge scoops the Costa children’s book award 2015 with The Lie Tree

  • 'PIGLETS BIG MOVIE' FILM STILLS<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo By REX FEATURES Eeyore, Winnie the Pooh, Rabbit and Tigger 'PIGLETS BIG MOVIE' FILM STILLS 470005 EDITORIAL USE ONLY CARTOON CHARACTER CHARACTERS ANIMATION

    Children's books
    What's happening in children's books in 2016? A literary calendar

December 2015

  • Children's books
    2015 in children's books – quiz

  • Patrick Ness

    A life in ...
    Patrick Ness: ‘You’re 10, a refugee in a foreign country. What the hell do you do?’

  • David Almond and Piers Torday

    Children's books
    If the real world isn't censored – why should fiction be?

  • David Almond, winner of the Children's Fiction Prize 2015, with last year's winner Piers Torday

    David Almond’s honest book is a worthy winner of children’s fiction prize

November 2015

  • David Almond outside his home in Northumberland

    David Almond’s fiction prizewinner is for grownups of 17, not children

  • Guardian Children's Fiction Prize 2015, 19/11/2015.

    Children's books
    David Almond wins the Guardian children's fiction prize - in pictures

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