RSL Giles St Aubyn Awards for Non-Fiction 2022 $1,000

Submissions for the 2022 RSL Giles St Aubyn Awards for Non-Fiction are open until 5pm on Wednesday 14 September 2022.

How To Submit To RSL Giles St Aubyn Awards for Non-Fiction

About The Contest

In 2017, the RSL established these annual Awards for first-time writers of non-fiction through a generous bequest from author and RSL Fellow Giles St Aubyn.

Giles St Aubyn, who died in 2015 aged 89, wrote 14 non-fiction books and taught history for nearly 40 years at Eton College. A nephew of Vita Sackville-West, he counted John Betjeman, John le Carré and The Queen Mother among his friends. Read the press release announcing the Awards.

The new awards build on the RSL Jerwood Awards. a previous form of non-fiction awards, generously supported by Jerwood Charitable Foundation from 2004 to 2016.

The 2022 Awards

Submissions for the 2022 RSL Giles St Aubyn Awards for Non-Fiction are open until 5pm on Wednesday 14 September 2022. 

This year’s judges are Homi K. Bhahba, Fiona Boyle and Violet Moller.

Past Winners

The 2021 winners of the RSL Giles St Aubyn Awards for first commissioned works of non-fiction, as selected by judges Gwen Adshead, Fiona Boyle and Clive Myrie, were:

• £10,000 –Tomiwa Owolade – This is Not America (Atlantic Books, 2022)
• £5,000 – Tom Ireland – The Good Virus (Hodder & Stoughton, 2022)
• £2,500 – David Veevers – A New History of the World at the Dawn of British Expansion (Penguin Random House/Ebury, 2022)

Three awards – one of £10,000, one of £5,000, and one of £2,500 – are available to provide financial support for talented new writers to complete their first commissioned work of non-fiction for a mainstream audience.

Please ensure that you have read and understood the eligibility and guidelines prior to completing your application.

Applications will only be accepted via the form below and must be submitted by 5pm on Wednesday 14 September

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