The Women's prize for fiction, previously known as the Baileys prize and the Orange prize, rewards writing by female authors in English.
June 2024
‘Don’t read just one book about Sri Lanka’: VV Ganeshananthan on her civil war novel
VV Ganeshananthan and Naomi Klein win Women’s prizes for fiction and nonfiction
May 2024
River East, River West by Aube Rey Lescure review – all change in China
Brotherless Night by VV Ganeshananthan review – heartbreak in war-torn Sri Lanka
April 2024
‘Six spellbinding and thought-provoking novels’: why we chose the Women’s prize for fiction shortlist
Anne Enright, Kate Grenville and Isabella Hammad shortlisted for Women’s prize for fiction
March 2024
Anne Enright and Isabella Hammad make the Women’s prize for fiction longlist
Three Irish authors – including Claire Kilroy and Megan Nolan – and Booker-shortlisted Brit Chetna Maroo sit among the 16 nominees, eight of them debut novels
June 2023
The Guardian view on nonfiction by women: so much buried treasure
Female novelists don’t need their own prizes. Let’s abolish them
Martha Gill
Books interview
Barbara Kingsolver: ‘Rural people are so angry they want to blow up the system’
Barbara Kingsolver wins the Women’s prize for fiction for second time
Maggie O’Farrell leads sales ahead of Women’s prize for fiction announcement
Audiobook of the week
Trespasses by Louise Kennedy audiobook review – love across the sectarian divide
May 2023
‘It’s an opportunity to pull back the curtain’: the rock’n’roll novel is back – from a female perspective
Susanna Hoffs of the Bangles’ tale of a one-hit wonder is the latest in a new wave of music novels written by women
April 2023
Three debut novels compete among Women’s prize for fiction shortlist
‘We were blown away’: how we chose the Women’s prize shortlist
Rachel Joyce
March 2023
Maggie O’Farrell and NoViolet Bulawayo make Women’s prize for fiction longlist
Nine debut novels are among the 16 books up for the 2023 award, alongside novels by Natalie Haynes, Sophie Mackintosh and Barbara Kingsolver
February 2023
The Guardian view on philanthropy in the arts: a bare necessity of life
Editorial: The old models are broken, budgets are shrinking, but where there is a will there is a way – even in the hardest of times
‘Big books by blokes about battles’: why we need the Women’s prize for nonfiction
Authors and publishers discuss the gender imbalance in nonfiction writing, and ask whether the newly announced award can redress it
Women’s prize to launch annual award for women’s non-fiction writing
The Women’s Prize Trust hopes to make the first award in 2024, after research showed female writers were far less likely than men to be reviewed or win prizes
