Booktrust Teenage Prize

The Booktrust Teenage Prize does what it says on the tin - it celebrates the best in literature for teenagers with an annual award.

Booktrust Teenage Prize 2009 Winner Announced

Neil Gaiman, commonly known as the 'rock star' of the literary world, is revealed as the winner of the Booktrust Teenage Prize 2009. Read the press release here

Booktrust Teenage Prize 2009

You can blind order your copies of the shortlisted titles through the following suppliers:

  • Askews Library Services
  • Holt Jackson
  • Peters Bookselling Services
  • Rondo

For 2009, have developed reading guides for each of the shortlisted books as well as lots of reader development ideas so you can make the most of the initiative. You can dowload the first of these from the Resources column on the right hand side of this page.

There will also be blogs from the shortlisted authors on our website for young people - groupthing

The winner of the Booktrust Teenage Prize 2008 was The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness.

Teenage Judges Short Story competition

Young people between the ages of 11 and 16 can enter a short story competition to win a place on the judging panel for the Booktrust Teenage Prize 2009. The challenge is to write a 500-word short story with the title President for a Day. The deadline for competition entries is 27 July 2009. Download the guidelines and entry form from resources.

The four best short stories will win their authors a place on the 2009 judging panel alongside: The Times journalist Alyson Rudd, the author Marcus Sedgwick, librarian Judi James, writer and translator Daniel Hahn and Aniketa Khushu, a young judge whose short story won her a place on the judging panel last year.

For more information about the Booktrust Teenage Prize go to Bookheads, their dedicated website for teenagers.

Key dates

Teenage Judges Competition deadline - Monday 27 July
Shortlist announcement - Monday 21 September
Winner announcement - Wednesday 18 November