Women's Prize
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Changing the world through books written by women. Charity behind the Women's Prize for Fiction and Non-Fiction supported by Audible, Baileys and Findmypast📚
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The gender pay gap for writers stands at 36%, compared to the national average of 13%. Let's dwell on that for a minute. Female authors are paid 36% LESS than their male counterparts. Their time, expertise, skill and creativity is valued at a third less than that of men. [1/3]
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And without further ado, we’re delighted to reveal that the winner of the 25th #WomensPrize for Fiction is Maggie O’Farrell with Hamnet. Huge congratulations, Maggie!
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We are so excited to reveal that Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has been crowned your 'Winner of Winners.'. You voted in your thousands and picked her novel Half of a Yellow Sun from 25 years of unforgettable #WomensPrize winning books:
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A statement regarding eligibility for the Women's Prize for Fiction.
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We're delighted to reveal this year's #WomensPrize longlist 🙌. Congratulations to our sixteen brilliant longlisted authors. Discover them here:
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We’re thrilled to announce our intention to launch a new annual prize, the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction! . We're seeking sponsorship for the Non-Fiction Prize, to amplify female voices & books that inform, entertain and disrupt. Share to spread the word:
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And without further ado, we're thrilled to reveal the 2019 #WomensPrize longlist 🙌.Congratulations to our sixteen brilliant longlisted authors!
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To celebrate our 25th anniversary, we teamed up with .@BaileysOfficial on something very special. Introducing the #ReclaimHerName collection, 25 books previously published under male pen names, with the real, female authors' names finally printed on them:
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A statement about eligibility for the Women's Prize for Fiction. Our full terms and conditions of entry can be viewed on our website:
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The 2019 #WomensPrize shortlist has been revealed!. To celebrate, we're giving away a set of all six shortlisted books. To #win, simply follow us, retweet this post and tag a fellow fiction lover in the comments 👉
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*Drumroll please* We’re thrilled to announce that the 2018 #WomensPrize winner is Kamila Shamsie with Home Fire 🎉
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We are delighted to reveal the 2021 #WomensPrize longlist 🙌. HUGE congratulations to all of our longlisted authors. To discover this year's sixteen spectacular books, head to our website:
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We are absolutely thrilled to announce that this year’s #WomensPrize for Fiction winner is Barbara Kingsolver with Demon Copperhead . Congratulations Barbara for being our first EVER two-time winner of the Women’s Prize!
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On #InternationalWomensDay we're thrilled to reveal the 2018 #WomensPrize longlist! . Congratulations to all of our longlisted authors:
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We are delighted to reveal that the 2021 #WomensPrize for Fiction winner is Susanna Clarke with Piranesi. Congratulations Susanna 👏. Find out more about why the judges chose Piranesi here:
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And without further ado, we're thrilled to share with you the 2020 #WomensPrize for Fiction shortlist. Huge congratulations to our six shortlisted authors 🙌Discover the books here:
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And without further ado. We are THRILLED to reveal the 2023 #WomensPrize longlist in all of its glory. Huge congratulations to our sixteen brilliant longlisted authors! Discover them here:
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And the 2022 winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction is…. Ruth Ozeki with The Book of Form and Emptiness. Congratulations Ruth!
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And without further ado… This year’s #WomensPrize for Fiction winner is @Tayari Jones with An American Marriage 🎉
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…And without further ado, we are thrilled to reveal that the 2021 #WomensPrize for Fiction winner is Susanna Clarke with Piranesi 🙌
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. Without further ado, we're delighted to reveal the #BaileysPrize 2017 winner is Naomi Alderman with The Power!
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On #IWD2022, we are over the moon to reveal this year’s brilliant longlist! . Congratulations to all of our longlisted authors! Discover the 16 books in the running for the 2022 #WomensPrize here:
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We're delighted to reveal this year's #WomensPrize shortlist, as chosen by our brilliant 2019 judges 🎉. Huge congratulations to our six shortlisted authors:
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Today's the day! The Testaments is here 🙌. To celebrate, we're giving away a set of @MargaretAtwood books, beautifully reissued by @ViragoBooks. Retweet and follow to #win all four books.
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We are over the moon to reveal the 2021 #WomensPrize shortlist 🙌. Enormous congratulations to our shortlisted authors!. To discover these six sensational books, head to our website:
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To celebrate the reveal of the 2020 #WomensPrize shortlist (and to relieve one person's lockdown boredom), we're giving away a set of all six shortlisted books 📚. To #win, retweet this and comment with the shortlisted book you're most looking forward to reading.
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On #InternationalWomensDay, we’re over the moon to reveal the fantastic 2017 #BaileysPrize longlist!
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We are THRILLED to announce the 2022 #WomensPrize shortlist 🎉. Huge congratulations to our shortlisted authors!. Discover these six spectacular books now:
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Congratulations to Lisa McInerney! Winner of the 2016 #BaileysPrize for her debut novel The Glorious Heresies.
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We're over the moon to reveal the 2018 #WomenPrize shortlist!.Congratulations to this year's brilliant shortlisted authors.
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And without further ado, meet your 2023 #WomensPrize shortlist 🎉 . Huge congratulations to all six shortlisted authors! . Discover their brilliant books now:
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We’re absolutely delighted to announce that @Tayari Jones is the 2019 Women’s Prize for Fiction winner with An American Marriage. Find out more about this incredible book here:
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To celebrate the centenary of Iris Murdoch's birth, @vintagebooks have created these GORGEOUS re-editions of her best-loved books 🙌.And we've got a stack to give away! To #win, simply retweet, follow us and comment with your favourite Iris Murdoch book.
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Did you know that most men don't read books by women?. Only 19% of readers of the bestselling female fiction authors are men. We want to change that. We asked some brilliant men and women to recommend one novel written by a woman. Now we need your vote 👉
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The 2021 #WomensPrize longlist is about to be revealed! . Tune in NOW for a special digital announcement with Chair @BernardineEvari and judges Elizabeth Day, Vick Hope, Nesrine Malik and Sarah-Jane Mee 👇
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‘It is the book I never thought I’d be well enough to write. So this is all the more extraordinary’ . Susanna Clarke on winning this year’s #WomensPrize for Fiction for Piranesi 👏
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Drum roll, please. ! We are absolutely delighted to reveal the 2017 #BaileysPrize shortlist:
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It's happened! The Jane Austen #NewTenPoundNote is in circulation. Which book by a woman will you be spending your first note on?
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We are thrilled to reveal the 2024 #WomensPrize for Fiction longlist sponsored by @baileys and @audible. 16 luminous novels to take you to different worlds, to share, recommend, love and pass on. Which ones are you excited to get your hands on?
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Nearly time to reveal the 2016 #BaileysPrize winner! Tell us which book gets your vote and RT to #win the shortlist
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Over the moon to announce that we're marking our 25th anniversary by challenging YOU to a year of #ReadingWomen. Join in and read the 24 (soon to be 25) brilliant past winners of the Prize. Head to our website for resources galore to inspire you:
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We were OVERWHELMED with your responses to this question last year. So many brilliant books recommended!. So we're asking again, what was the best book by a woman that you read in 2022? 🤔
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Have your discovered the 2021 #WomensPrize shortlist yet?. As a bank holiday treat, we’re giving away a set of all six spectacular shortlisted novels 🙌. To #win, simply follow us, retweet and tell us which book you’re most looking forward to reading!
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The 2019 #WomensPrize shortlist will be announced tonight at midnight 🎉. To celebrate, retweet this post and comment with one book you want to see on the shortlist for a chance to #win a set of all 16 longlisted books!
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To celebrate #InternationalWomensDay, win the 2016 #BaileysPrize longlist. Simpy retweet and follow to win!
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To celebrate our 25th anniversary collaboration, win a set of the 2020 #WomensPrize shortlist, plus a 3 month subscription to @booksthatmatter. To win, retweet this, follow us & @booksthatmatter and comment with the shortlisted book you're most excited to read 🙌
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The 2018 #WomensPrize shortlist has been announced today!.Check it out in beautiful biscuit form, courtesy of @BiscuiteersLtd.
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From Sylvia Plath to Judy Blume: simply RT and follow us to win this brilliant stack of feminist classics as chosen by @dollyalderton, @junodawson and more at our @LatitudeFest event last week!
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We're beyond excited that @MichelleObama's Becoming is out today 🎉.To celebrate, we're giving away a SIGNED copy. Simply RT & follow us for a chance to win.
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Tonight at 7pm BST we'll be live streaming the announcement of the 25th winner of the #WomensPrize, right here. Which book gets your vote? . Tell us in the comments 👇
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Announcing the first two actors performing readings at our Virtual Shortlist Festival 📣. None other than @GillianA will be bringing Sorrow & Bliss to life, and the incredible Jason Isaacs will be reading from The Book of Form and Emptiness. Tickets here:
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We're excited to reveal all six of the AMAZING actors performing readings at our Virtual Shortlist Festival 🙌. Join @NaomieHarris, @GillianA and more, plus host Kate Mosse and our shortlisted authors for three unmissable nights from Monday. Tickets here:
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Calling all budding writers!. We're delighted to announce details of Discoveries, our brand new talent development programme for aspiring female writers in partnership with @CBGBooks and @NatWest_Help. Find out more here:
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Over the moon to reveal this year’s extraordinary Women’s Prize winning novel Demon Copperhead!. Huge congratulations to Barbara Kingsolver, who won in 2010 with The Lacuna, and so is our first ever double #WomensPrize winner!
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A weekend treat! Win this fantastic stack of books as chosen by our brilliant Women, Power and Revolution panelists, including @junesarpong, @KateWilliamsme and more! RT & follow to #win
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Our wonderful 2020 winner, Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell, won the National Book Critics Circle prize for fiction over the weekend!. Huge congratulations to Maggie and her marvellous book 🙌
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'This is an immense and incredible honour'. Watch the moment when Chair of Judges @BernardineEvari crowned Susanna Clarke the 2021 #WomensPrize winner, with her second novel Piranesi.
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The 2021 #WomensPrize winner will be revealed TOMORROW 🙌. But who will win?. Retweet, follow and comment with the shortlisted novel that gets your vote for a chance to win all six spectacular books 📚. And join us at 6.55pm tomorrow for the livestream of the winner announcement!
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The #WomensPrize longlist will be announced at midnight (GMT) tonight. We are SO excited to share these 16 brilliant books with you. Who's staying up with us? 🙋♀️
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Win the ultimate summer reading list!. From @MargaretAtwood to @BernardineEvari, you voted on the ultimate woman-penned reading list for men, and now we're giving you the chance to WIN all 10 brilliant books. Simply retweet and follow us to enter. Terms:
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Enjoy a Halloween tipple with your spooky read! Win one of five bottles of delicious NEW Baileys Pumpkin Spice. Retweet & follow to #win.
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We couldn't be more excited about #WomensPrize winner Valerie Martin's new novel I Give It To You 🙌. It's coming in August, but we have 12 proofs to giveaway for those of you who can't wait. Simply retweet and tag a fellow booklover for a chance to #win a copy for you both.
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‘I sit on that sofa as a woman, as a person of colour who is not a robot’.Naga Munchetty talks BBC Breakfast, #BlackLivesMatter and women writers on the latest episode of the #WomensPrize Podcast. Listen now 🎧
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It’s official! We’re thrilled to announce that the winner of this year’s #WomensPrize for Fiction is @ozekiland’s The Book of Form and Emptiness. Huge congratulations Ruth 👏 . Find out more about this spectacular novel:
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Here they are in all their glory. the inaugural Women's Prize for Non-Fiction longlist! . A big thank you to our judges @sixteenthcgirl, @profnicolarollock, @venetialamanna, @annesebba and @kamilashamsie plus our sponsor @findmypast . #WomensPrize:
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Announcing the first ever winner of the #WomensPrize for Non-Fiction – @NaomiAKlein with her book Doppelganger. Congratulations Naomi!. #WomensPrize With thanks to our sponsors @findmypast
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Let's start up a nice new book list! 📚. Let us know in the comments below what is your FAVOURITE non-fiction book by a woman?. Some inspiration here from our podcast guests, from Gillian Anderson to Emeli Sandé:
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Okay, drop everything. @Lupita_Nyongo will be starting in a TV adaptation of #WomensPrize winner Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah. Who's excited? 🙋♀️.
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Introducing the 25th #WomensPrize longlist!. In case you didn't quite manage to stay up til our midnight reveal, here it is again in all of its glory:
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We're raising a glass to Naomi Alderman, winner of the 2017 #BaileysPrize, with The Power. Congratulations Naomi!
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We are over the moon to reveal the phenomenal 2021 #WomensPrize judging panel 🎉. Chair @BernardineEvari is joined by judges Elizabeth Day, Vick Hope, @NesrineMalik and Sarah-Jane Mee. Meet the year's judges:
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In exactly one month we'll be announcing the 2022 #WomensPrize longlist 📚🙌. Here's a little reminder of the incredible books that were on last year's longlist. Who do you want to see on this year's list?
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This #InternationalWomensDay, the 2022 Women’s Prize longlist is about to be revealed!. Tune in NOW for a special virtual announcement with this year’s #WomensPrize judges Mary Ann Sieghart, Lorraine Candy, Dorothy Koomson, Anita Sethi and Pandora Sykes 👇
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We're delighted to reveal, on #InternationalWomensDay, the 2016 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction longlist!
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Together in all their glory! .Brotherless Night by @V_V_G winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction and Doppelganger by @NaomiAKlein winner of the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction: #WomensPrize.With thanks to @audibleuk, @BaileysOfficial and @findmypast
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See @lovegwendoline on why her #ThisBook made her think differently. Which novel shaped you? http://t.co/1r2aks0WNj
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Announcing the 29th winner of the #WomensPrize for Fiction – @V_V_G with her novel Brotherless Night. Congratulations Sugi!. With thanks to our sponsors @Audible_UK and @BaileysOfficial . #WomensPrize
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Actress Emily Blunt & sister @felicityblunt discuss a love for life & literature #ThisBookClub
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Just ONE WEEK to go until we reveal the 2021 #WomensPrize shortlist! . Which six books get your vote from this exceptional stack? Tell us in the comments 👇
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The 6 spellbinding novels that make up the 2024 #WomensPrize for Fiction shortlist capture between their pages the enormous breadth of the human experience. Congratulations to all the authors!.@audibleuk @BaileysOfficial
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And without any further ado, we're absolutely delighted to reveal the 2015 long list: http://t.co/er8dnZNkS1
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And without further ado, we're delighted to announce Ali Smith has won the 2015 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction! http://t.co/PCsLnKxl3f.
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Our brilliant #WomensPrize shortlisted authors line up for their photocall with an hour and a half to go until the 2018 winner is announced!
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Alright, drop everything. There's going to be a HAMNET MOVIE. Maggie O'Farrell's 2021 #WomensPrize winning novel is going to be made into a film, produced by Liza Marshall, Sam Mendes and Pippa Harris. We. Can't. Wait. More here:
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We're giving away a signed copy of 2016 #BaileysPrize winner The Glorious Heresies! RT and follow to #win.
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Last chance to win this stack of GORGEOUS reads, published by @vintagebooks to celebrate the centenary of Iris Murdoch's birth 🙌.To #win, simply retweet, follow us and comment with your favourite Iris Murdoch book.
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Southbank Centre's London Literature Festival returns this month! . To celebrate, we're giving away this stack of books by brilliant women on the line-up, plus tickets to see #BookerPrize2019 winner @BernardineEvari. RT to #win!. Further info & terms here:
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From Nora Ephron to Maggie O’Farrell, win a stack of Fi Glover’s favourite books, as chosen on the #WomensPrize Podcast 🎧. To win, retweet and comment with a book you'd like to recommend. Don't forget to listen to Fi's episode:
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TODAY is the day! At 6pm GMT we reveal the 2021 #WomensPrize longlist. Join Chair @BernardineEvari and judges Elizabeth Day, Vick Hope, @NesrineMalik and Sarah-Jane Mee for a special digital announcement right here on Twitter. Who's joining us? 🙋♀️
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The 2020 #WomensPrize shortlist is about to be revealed. Tune in NOW for a very special online announcement event with Chair of Judges @Marthalanefox.
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It's finally February, gang 🙌. To celebrate, we're giving away a stack of these rather gorgeous new Angie Cruz editions, including Angie's #WomensPrize shortlisted novel Dominicana. To win, simply retweet, follow us and comment with what you're reading this month.
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The #WomensPrize shortlist will be revealed tonight at one minute past midnight!.Hands up who's excited and planning to stay up for the announcement 🙋♀️
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The 2021 #WomensPrize longlist is just ONE WEEK away. Here's a little reminder of last year's wonderful list 👇. Which books are you hoping to see on the longlist this year? Tell us your predictions!
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Happy International Women's Day all!. May we suggest you celebrate by picking up one of the brilliant 2020 #WomensPrize longlisted books?
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Pink isn't just a colour, it's an attitude. We are SO excited to unveil our brand-new, dazzlingly pink logo to celebrate Women's History Month and International Women's Day 🙌
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There's only ONE WEEK to go until the 2022 Women's Prize shortlist is revealed 🎉. Tell us, who do you want to see on this year's shortlist?
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In case you missed it last night, here's the 2020 #WomensPrize shortlist in all of its glory 🙌. Huge congratulations to our shortlisted authors and best of luck to our brilliant judges (how they're going to choose a winner, we don't know).
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Tomorrow at 6pm we reveal the 2021 #WomensPrize longlist, in a very special digital announcement 🙌. Join Chair @BernardineEvari and judges Elizabeth Day, Vick Hope, @NesrineMalik and Sarah-Jane Mee right here on Twitter. Who do you want to see on the longlist?
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Tonight is the night! The #BaileysPrize shortlist will be revealed at 7.15pm sharp. Any last-minute predictions?
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We're are absolutely delighted to announce Eimear McBride has won the 2014 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction! http://t.co/wE1r5EHydF.
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