Augmented, Kenechi Udogu (Faber) How to Catch an Idea, Forest Xiao (Orchard Books) My Name is Samim, Fidan Meikle (Kelpies) Roar, Manjeet Mann (Penguin Books) Supa Nova, Chanté Timothy (Nosy Crow) The Shell Keepers, Truly Johnston (Chicken House)

Act Normal: Joy and Despair in Postcolonial Britain, Pete Kalu (HopeRoad) Before We Hit the Ground, SelaliFiamanya (Borough Press) Call Me Ishmaelle, Xiaolu Guo (Vintage) I Want to Talk to You, Diana Evans (Chatto & Windus) The South, Tash Aw (Fourth Estate) Love Forms, Claire Adam (Faber) Saraswati, Gurnaik Johal (Serpent’s Tail) The Science of Racism: Everything you need to know but probably don’t - yet, Keon West (Picador) Foreign Fruit, Katie Goh (Canongate) Minority Rule: Culture Wars and the Rentier Class: Adventures in the Culture War, Ash Sarkar (Bloomsbury) Hail Mary, Funmi Fetto (Magpie) Shamiso, Brian Chikwava (Canongate)

shortlists for three Jhalak Prize awards announced today:

1. Children's & Young Adult
2. Poetry
3. Prose

In C&YA judge Lanisha Butterfield's words, we "defy anyone – of any age, to browse our shortlist(s) and not find something for them."
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all look amazing 😻
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So pleased to be supporting the Poetry Prize and to have our interns able to sit in on some of the the judging.

Wonderful shortlists across all three prizes. Congratulations to all!

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The news is out! When I started this mad, bad, dangerous prize a decade ago, I never thought it would grow to three awards. But here we are: still shouting about future classics and current #mustreads
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The 2026 Jhalak Prize longlists have been announced! 🎉

Congratulations to everyone who has been chosen, these three awards celebrate talent in fiction, non-fiction, short stories, graphic novels, poetry and all other genres.

https://www.gardners.com/Awards/jhalak-awards

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My proudest achievement is building a book family that powers this prize

In 10 years, Jhalak Prize has grown from a single prize to a portfolio of 3 awards:
1. Jhalak Children’s & Young Adult Prize,
2. Jhalak Poetry Prize
3. Jhalak Prose Prize
BEHOLD THIS EXCELLENCE!

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Jhalak Prize submissions open for 10th year Submissions for the 10th year of the Jhalak Prize are open.

📢📢📢📢📢📢#Book peeps: ONLY 3 weeks remain till submissions close for Jhalak Prize for its landmark 10th anniversary year. What are you waiting for? Send in those amazing books! #publishing #books #representationmatters #jhalakprizeat10 #jhalakprize www.thebookseller.com/news/news/jh...