Booktrust Teenage Prize
The Booktrust Teenage Prize celebrates the best in literature for teenagers with an annual award.
Booktrust Teenage Prize 2010
This year's judging panel will be chaired by popular children's and young adult author Tony Bradman and also includes:
* Journalist and author Barbara Ellen
* Author and reviewer Mary Hoffman
* Chartered Librarian Barbara Band
* 2009 Booktrust Teenage Prize young judge Claudia Freemantle
The full press release announcing this year's judges can be viewed here
The deadline for ordering material to promote this year's prize from The Reading Agency shop has now passed.
The promotion will run in libraries from September until November 2010.
Reading groups competition - win a flip cam!
We are delighted to be offering teenage reading groups in libraries a fantastic opportunity to report on this year's Booktrust Teenage Prize.
To enter the competition, reading groups just need to tell us, in 300 words, why their reading group should be 'reporters' on this year's Teenage Prize for Groupthing. The reporting will take place from September to November.
The winning reading group will receive a flip cam which can be used to produce short videos of reviews of the books, debates, and events to tie in with the Prize. They will also receive one set of books and three sets of tickets to attend the awards ceremony in November in London.* The videos will be shown on Groupthing and the Booktrust website.
Please submit your entries to judith-shipman@readingagency.org.uk by 5pm on Friday 27 August.
The winning reading group will be announced on 1 September, and the flip cam and books will be delivered to the reading group in time for the shortlist announcement on 7 September.
There will also be a set of books for the runners-up.
*Please note that travel expenses to the awards ceremony are not included.
Teenage Judges Short Story competition
Young people between the ages of 11 and 16 also had the opportunity to enter a short story competition to win a place on the judging panel for the Booktrust Teenage Prize 2010. The winner will receive a ticket to the award ceremony in London in November; the chance to meet and interview all the shortlisted authors, using a flipcam; a complete set of the shortlisted titles; and will have their winning story published on the Booktrust website.
The challenge was to write a 500-word short story on the subject: What would you do if you were invisible? The deadline for competition entries has now passed.
Key dates
Sign-up deadline - Monday 28 June
Shortlist announcement - Tuesday 7 September
Winner announcement - Monday 1 November
Booktrust Teenage Prize 2009 Winner Announced
Neil Gaiman, commonly known as the 'rock star' of the literary world, was 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, we developed reading guides for each of the shortlisted books as well as lots of reader development ideas so you could make the most of the initiative.
The winner of the Booktrust Teenage Prize 2008 was The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness.