Founded in 2013 in the UNESCO World Heritage City of Bath, the Bath Novel Awards are international writing competitions for unagented emerging writers. The awards are judged by leading literary agents and the full list of Bath Novel Awards winners and listees can be found below.
2025
The Bath Novel Award 2025 — Winner: Parker Barrington for Guardian Angel
The Bath Novel Award 2025 — Full winner and listees announcement
The Bath Children’s Novel Award 2025 — Winner: Melanie Whitmarsh for The Nighthawk Detectives and the Phantom of Antarctica
The Bath Children’s Novel Award 2025 — Full winner and listees announcement
2024
The Bath Novel Award 2024 — Winner: Ben Reeves for Everything was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt. (Atlantic and Simon & Schuster, July 2026)
The Bath Novel Award 2024 — Full winner and listees announcement
The Bath Children’s Novel Award 2024 — Winner: Craig Pearson Fender for Panjandrum
The Bath Children’s Novel Award 2024 — Full winner and listees announcement
2023
The Bath Novel Award 2023 — Winner: Ian Nettleton for Out of Nowhere (SALT Publishing 2027)
The Bath Novel Award 2023 — Full winner and listees announcement
The Bath Children’s Novel Award 2023 — Winner: Carmen Wittmeier for The Train with No End
The Bath Children’s Novel Award 2023 — Full winner and listees announcement
2022
The Bath Novel Award 2022 — Winner: Francesca Robbins for Victoriana
The Bath Novel Award 2022 — Full winner and listees announcement
The Bath Children’s Novel Award 2022 — Winner: Truly Johnston for The Shell Keepers.(Chickenhouse, 2025)
The Bath Children’s Novel Award 2022 — Full winner and listees announcement
2021
The Bath Novel Award 2021 — Winner: AP Firdaus for Remember, Mr Sharma. (Sceptre 2023)
The Bath Novel Award 2021 — Full winner and listees announcement
The Bath Children’s Novel Award 2021 — Joint Winners: AE Daly for Dreamdogs and Rachel Darwin for The Doll’s House Mouse
The Bath Children’s Novel Award 2021 — Full winner and listees announcement
2020
The Bath Novel Award 2020 — Winner: Andrew J King for The Arrow Garden (Aderyn Press 2023)
The Bath Novel Award 2020 — Full winner and listees announcement
The Bath Children’s Novel Award 2020 — Winner: Ruth Moore for The Enemy Inside
The Bath Children’s Novel Award 2020 — Full winner and listees announcement
2019
The Bath Novel Award 2019 — Winner: Kate Simants for A Ruined Girl. (Viper 2020)
The Bath Novel Award 2019 — Full winner and listees announcement
The Bath Children’s Novel Award 2019 — Winner: Matthew Fox for The Sky Over Rebecca (Hachette 2022)
The Bath Children’s Novel Award 2019 — Full winner and listees announcement
2018
The Bath Novel Award 2018 — Winner: Abi Daré for The Girl with the Louding Voice (Sceptre 2020)
The Bath Novel Award 2018 — Full winner and listees announcement
The Bath Children’s Novel Award 2018 — Winner: Cassie Powney for Loops
The Bath Children’s Novel Award 2018 —Full winner and listees announcement
2017
The Bath Novel Award 2017 — Winner: Sophie Draper for Cuckoo (Harper Collins / Avon, 2018)
The Bath Novel Award 2017 — Full winner and listees announcement
The Bath Children’s Novel Award 2017 — Winner: Struan Murray for Orphans of the Tide (Puffin 2019)
The Bath Children’s Novel Award 2017 — Full winner and listees announcement
2016
The Bath Novel Award 2016 — Winner: Kim Sherwood for Testament (Riverrun 2018)
The Bath Novel Award 2016 — Full winner and listees announcement
The Bath Children’s Novel Award 2016 — Winner: Gareth Osborne for Cogs of Castile
The Bath Children’s Novel Award 2016 — Full winner and listees announcement
2015
The Bath Novel Award 2015 — Winner: Clarissa Goenawan for Rainbirds (Soho Press, 2020)
The Bath Novel Award 2015 — Full winner and listees announcement
The Bath Children’s Novel Award 2015 — Winner: Lucy Van Smit for The Hurting (Chickenhouse, 2017)
The Bath Children’s Novel Award 2015 — Full winner and listees announcement
2014
The Bath Novel Award 2015 — Winner: Joanna Barnard for Precocious (Ebury Press, 2016)
The Bath Novel Award 2015 — Full winner and listees announcement
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The Bath Novel Award £5,000 prize for adult & YA manuscripts in every genre.
The Bath Children’s Novel Award £5,000 prize for children’s & YA manuscripts.