Maria Reva was announced as the winner of the £10,000 Gordon Burn Prize 2026 for Endling, published by Virago, on 5 March. The ceremony took place at Northern Stage, in Gordon Burn’s home city of Newcastle upon Tyne. Maria was joined by her fellow shortlisted authors: Omar El Akkad, Sarah Hall, Elizabeth Lovatt, Anthony Shapland and Morgan Talty for an in-conversation event …
The shortlist for the Gordon Burn Prize 2026 was announced today. It is: The shortlist includes: a deeply affecting and uniquely informed account of the anguishfelt being an immigrant of Middle Eastern heritage living in the Western world today(One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad); a millennia spanning novel about climate change, told through …
Based on a series of interviews with a horse trainer, the US author’s genre-defying book was described by judges as a ‘thundering achievement’ Read more here…
The shortlist for the Gordon Burn Prize 2023–24, which recognises and celebrates fiction and non-fiction books that are fearless in their ambition and execution, is announced today (Thursday 25 January). The seven books on the Gordon Burn Prize 2023-24 shortlist are: Founded in 2012 by New Writing North, Faber & Faber and the Gordon Burn Trust, the Gordon Burn Prize …
Narrative non-fiction winner is written by Preti Taneja, who taught Usman Khan creative writing two years before he stabbed five people and killed two Read more here