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- Andre Simon Food and Drink book awards - the annual awards for food and drink books
- The Arthur C. Clarke Award - "the UK's premier prize for science fiction literature". See also Amazon.co.uk Link
- The Betty Trask Prize and Awards - totalling £25,000 are awarded to authors under the age of 35 for a first novel, published or unpublished
- The Boardman Tasker Charitable Trust - "established to promote literature by providing an annual award to authors of literary works, the central theme of which is concerned with mountains. The prize of £2,000 commemorates the lives of Peter Boardman and Joe Tasker and is given to the author or co-authors of an original work which has made an outstanding contribution to mountain literature
- Booktrust Early Years Awards - "supported by Bookstart and the Unwin Foundation, the Awards celebrate, publicise and reward the exciting range of books being published today for babies, toddlers and pre-school children"
- The Branford Boase Award - awarded to the most promising first novel by a first time writer of a book for young people
- The British Fantasy Awards - "administered annually by the British Fantasy Society and were first awarded in 1971. The membership of the BFS vote to determine recommendations, short-lists and winners of the awards. The current award categories are Best Novel, Best Novella, Best Short Story, Best Small Press, Best Artist, Best Anthology, Best Collection, and the Karl Edward Wagner Award is given at the discretion of the BFS committee"
- BSFA Awards - "presented annually by the British Science Fiction Association, based on a vote of BSFA members and, in recent years, members of the British national science fiction convention"
- The Cholmondeley Awards for Poets - founded by the late Dowager Marchioness of Cholmondeley in 1966 to recognise the achievement and distinction of individual poets. They are honorary awards and submissions are not accepted. The recipients are chosen by the Awards Committee for their general body of work and contribution to poetry
- The CILIP Carnegie & Kate Greenaway Children's Book Awards - "are unique in that they are awarded by librarians who work closely with books and children. The books that are nominated for the awards are nominated by library professionals and not by publishers, a democratic process which ensures that any title has an equal chance of being considered for the Awards"
- Commonwealth Writers' Prize - "the objectives of the prize are to promote new voices, reward achievement, encourage wider readership and greater literacy, thereby increasing appreciation of different cultures and building understanding between cultures"
- Costa Book Awards - "one of the most prestigious and popular literary prizes in the UK, recognising some of the most enjoyable books of the year by writers based in the UK and Ireland. See also Amazon.co.uk Link
- The CWA Dagger Awards - from The Crime Writers' Association. Only British publishers can submit entries for the awards, and the submissions must have been published in the English language in the United Kingdom within a limited period of time
- The Desmond Wettern Media Awards - made annually in memory of the late Desmond Wettern, writer on maritime affairs for some thirty years. The Awards are to commemorate Desmond's single minded dedication to the belief that the United Kingdom's wellbeing and security are inextricably bound up with the sea and to encourage publicists and writers to draw attention to this linkage. Nominations are considered by the Awards Committee who make their recommendation to the Trustees of the Maritime Foundation
- The Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography - a prize of £3,000 for the best published historical biography of the year. No unsolicited submissions are accepted
- The Encore Award - a prize of £10,000 for the best published second novel of the year. Entry is by the publisher
- The Eric Gregory Awards - totalling £24,000 each year are awarded to British poets under the age of 30 on the basis of a submitted collection. Published and unpublished collections may be entered
- The Forward Poetry Prizes - created in 1991 to bring contemporary poetry to a wider audience. Known as the 'bardic booker', this is the UK's most valuable annual poetry competition as well as the only major awards that honour both established and up-and-coming poets
- The Galaxy British Book Awards - "are the publishing industry's equivalent of the BAFTA's or the Oscars and are the glitziest event in the UK book trade industry's calendar. The Awards celebrate the nation's favourite books, authors and publishers". See also Amazon.co.uk Link
- The Garden Writers' Guild Awards - celebrate the highest standards of garden writing, illustration, publishing and broadcasting. Among the 17 categories are press, book, TV, radio, photography and multimedia Awards - as well as the Guild's prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award
- The Glenfiddich Food and Drink Awards - intended to recognise achievements in writing, publishing and broadcasting on the subjects of food and drink. The awards have been sponsored since 1972 by William Grant & Sons, a family-owned Scottish distiller that produces Glenfiddich, a Speyside single malt Scotch whisky
- Guardian First Book Award 2007
- The Guild of Food Writers Awards - established in 1996, to be presented annually in recognition of outstanding achievement in any area in which food writers work and have influence. The awards remain the only awards judged entirely by professional food writers, journalists and editors
- The James Tait Black Memorial Prizes - awarded annually by the University of Edinburgh for the best work of fiction and the best biography published during the previous year. Winners are awarded a prize of GBP10,000.
- The John Llewellyn Rhys Prize - rewards the best work of literature (fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama) by a UK or Commonwealth writer aged 35 or under
- The Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards for Photography and the Moving Image - Photography books and books on the moving image published or distributed in the UK are eligible
- The Lannan Literary Awards and Fellowships - "established in 1989 to honor both established and emerging writers whose work is of exceptional quality. Over the last 18 years, through its Awards and Fellowships program, the Foundation has awarded 161 writers and poets over $11 million. The awards recognize writers who have made significant contributions to English-language literature. The fellowships recognize writers of distinctive literary merit who demonstrate potential for continued outstanding work"
- Longman History Today Awards - made jointly by the publishers Longman and History Today magazine to mark links between the two organizations and to foster a wider understanding of, and enthusiasm for, history
- The Man Booker Prize for Fiction - "promotes the finest in fiction by rewarding the very best book of the year". See also Amazon.co.uk Link
- The McKitterick Prize - GBP4,000 for the best first novel by an author over the age of 40
- The nasen and TES Special Educational Needs Book Awards - represents excellence and best practice in books and resources for special educational needs
- The National Library of Scotland/Saltire Research Book of the Year - Each year the Saltire Society/National Library of Scotland Research Book of the Year Award is presented at the Saltire Society's literary awards ceremony, held in the Library, in recognition of the importance of scholarly research in Scotland. This award was established in 1998
- The Nestlé Children's Book Prize - one of the UK's longest running prizes. The Prize celebrates the very best in children's literature, and, over the years, around half a million school children have been involved in choosing the winning authors. See also Amazon.co.uk Link
- The Northern Rock Foundation Writer's Award - A £60,000 award to help writers in the north of England to develop their work
- The Olive Cook and Tom-Gallon Awards - both prizes of £1,000 for a short story. They are each awarded biennially, in alternate years. Published and unpublished stories may be entered
- Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction - "one of the United Kingdom's most prestigious literary prizes, awarded annually for the best original full-length novel by a female author of any nationality, written in English and published in the UK in the preceding year. The winner of the prize receives GBP30,000, along with a bronze sculpture called the "Bessie" created by artist Grizel Niven, the sister of actor/writer David Niven". See also Amazon.co.uk Link
- PEN/Ackerley Prize - When Joe Randolph Ackerley (1896-1967), author and long-time literary editor of The Listener magazine, died, his sister Nancy endowed a literary prize in his memory. Ackerley's posthumous royalties continue to provide capital for this award
- The Portsmouth Book Awards - allow young people in the city the opportunity to decide their book of the year. The pupil judges decide the winners in two categories following extensive reading and debating. The Award is administered by the City Library Service, which works closely with school staff
- The Red House Children's Book Award - "made annually to the best work of fiction for children. Hundreds of books are read, short-listed and voted for by children from around the country and any child in the UK can take part"
- The RIBA International Book Awards - about celebrating exceptional writing that inspires greater interest and pleasure in the many and diverse aspects of architecture, construction and design
- Romantic Novel of the Year Award - open to all romantic fiction first published in the UK in the current year
- Rose Mary Crawshay Prizes - In April 1888 Mrs Rose Mary Crawshay established 'The Byron, Shelley, Keats In Memoriam Yearly Prize Fund'. In 1914, some years after her death, the Charity Commissioners transferred the administration of the prize fund to the British Academy. Two prizes are normally awarded each year. Each goes 'to a woman of any nationality who, in the judgement of the Council of the British Academy, has written or published within three years next preceding the year of the award an historical or critical work of sufficient value on any subject connected with English Literature, preference being given to a work regarding one of the poets Byron, Shelley and Keats'
- The Royal Society of Literature Prizes and Awards
- The Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize. An annual award of £10,000 for an outstanding work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry evoking the spirit of a place.
- The Royal Society of Literature RSL/Jerwood Awards for Non-Fiction. Three annualawards, one of £10,000, two of £5,000, for authors engaged on their first major commissioned works of non-fiction.
- The VS Pritchett Memorial Prize. An annual award of £1,000 for a previously unpublished short story.
- Companions of Literature. The Society confers the honour of Companion of Literature on writers of outstanding achievement. The Benson Medal. Awarded by the Society to honour a lifetime's distinguished service to literature.
- Royal Society Prizes for Science Books - "are made up of two awards for the best popular science books of the last year. The General Prize is open to science books written for a non-specialist audience and the Junior Prize is open to science books for children. The winners of both prizes will receive £10,000 and the authors of the short listed books £1000"
- Saltire History Book of the Year Award - Scottish historial books. In memory of Agnes Muriel Mackenzie
- Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction - open to books in the areas of current affairs, history, politics, science, sport, travel, biography, autobiography and the arts. All books published in the UK by writers of any nationality are eligible. See also Amazon.co.uk Link
- The Society for Theatre Research Book Prize
- The Somerset Maugham Awards - £12,000 are awarded each year to British authors under the age of 35 for a published work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry
- Southern Schools Book Awards - Aims: To alert young people to 'books well worth reading'. To re-establish and strengthen the reading for pleasure habit. To promote the ethos that it's OK to read! To create a mechanism for lively book discussions. To link young people across the region through the common medium of books. To offer young people their 'own' book award
- The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award - administered by the Society of Authors
- The T S Eliot Prize - now the biggest cash award in UK poetry, increased from £10,000 to £15,000. In a move which will be widely welcomed, each of the 10 shortlisted poets will also receive £1000. The £15,000 prize money is kindly donated by Eliot's widow, Mrs Valerie Eliot
- Wingate Literary Prize - this prize, sponsored by the Harold Hyam Wingate Charitable Foundation, is the only award in the UK to recognize a major work, by a Jewish or non-Jewish author, that stimulates an interest in and awareness of themes of Jewish concern among a wider reading public
