Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writer's Award

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The Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writer's Award is given annually to two writers to support their work on a forthcoming book, either fiction or non-fiction, relating to the Americas. [1] It is supported by the Hay Festival and the British Library's Eccles Centre for American Studies. The winners each receive £20,000, divided into four quarterly grants, and have a research residency at the Eccles Centre, with curatorial support, and opportunities to promote their work at Hay Festival events in the UK and elsewhere. [2] [3] The award was previously known as the Eccles British Library Writer in Residence Award [4] and the Eccles British Library Writers Award. [5]

Winners

Past winners, and the books (now published or as yet unpublished) for which they won their awards, include: [2]

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References

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