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Orange Award for New Writers 2009
shortlist announced 7 April 2009
judges
Mishal Husain (Chair), Presenter, BBC World News
Louise Jury, Chief Arts Correspondent, Evening Standard
Diana Evans, Author and winner of the inaugural Orange Award for New Writers
Orange Prize 2009 Dates
Orange Prize for Fiction shortlist 21 April
Orange Readers’ Day at The Conservatoire, Birmingham 9 May
Orange Award for New Writers event at Southbank Centre 1 June
Orange Prize Shortlist Readings at Southbank Centre 2 June
Awards Ceremony 3 June
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shortlist
An Equal Stillness
Francesca Kay, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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Miles From Nowhere
Nami Mun, Virago
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The Personal History of Rachel DuPree
Ann Weisgarber, Macmillan New Writing
find out moreThe Orange Award for New Writers
The Award was launched in 2005 in partnership with Arts Council England. Renewing their commitment to the partnership with Orange, Arts Council England has committed a further £30,000 over the next three years (£10,000 per year) for bursary awards for the winners of the Orange Award for New Writers. By offering a bursary to a novelist or short story writer for her first publication, the Arts Council is able to support the professional development of a writer at a crucial stage in her career.
Authors who have written their first work of fiction can be entered for both the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Award for New Writers.

