Prize Season · Annual Coverage
The Women's
Prize for
Fiction
The prize that consistently finds the books everyone should be reading — and a few that will blow up your TBR entirely. Scott has covered every longlist since 2021 with predictions, reactions, and full reviews.
Fiction by Women. For Everyone.
The Women's Prize for Fiction was founded in 1996 after not a single woman appeared on the Booker Prize shortlist in 1991. Since then it has grown into one of the most important prizes in English language fiction — not just for championing women writers, but for the quality of its selections year after year.
Each year the prize accepts novels written in English by a single woman author, published in the UK between 1 April and 31 March. The longlist of sixteen titles is announced in March; the shortlist of six in April; the winner in June.
It has not been without controversy. Its founding caused debate about reverse discrimination, and more recently the prize has had to grapple publicly with questions of trans and non-binary eligibility — the very definitions of womanhood that the literary world, like the rest of society, is still working through. Scott doesn't shy away from any of it.
2026 Key Dates
- Longlist4 March 2026
- Shortlist22 April 2026
- WinnerJune 2026
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Start Here
Scott works through 43 eligible titles and narrows them to his predicted longlist of 16. The research video. Start here for 2026.
35,000+ views. Scott's most-watched Women's Prize video. His verdict on the 2024 longlist — and why he thinks it's the strongest in years.
29,000+ views. Scott reviewed every title on the 2023 longlist. The definitive guide to that year's list.
Women's Prize Reading
Individual book reviews, longlist deep-dives, and more — written versions of Scott's video coverage.
Women's Prize blog posts are coming soon. In the meantime, watch the full coverage on YouTube →
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