Jhalak Prize

@jhalakprize

Awards two annual prizes to books by writers of colour in UK. Disrupts publishing, celebrates great writing. Submissions open September 1

London, England

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Jhalak Prize@jhalakprize · Jun 4

Delighted to announce our 2025 winners: 1. Jhalak Children's & Young Adult Prize: @NateLessore for #KingofNothing (@HotKeyBooks) 2. Jhalak Poetry Prize: Mimi Khalvati for #CollectedPoems (@Carcanet) 3. Jhalak Prose Prize: N.S. Nuseibeh for #Namesake (@canongatebooks)

jhalakprize's tweet image. Delighted to announce our 2025 winners:

1. Jhalak Children's &amp; Young Adult Prize: @NateLessore for #KingofNothing (@HotKeyBooks)
2. Jhalak Poetry Prize: Mimi Khalvati for #CollectedPoems (@Carcanet)
3. Jhalak Prose Prize: N.S. Nuseibeh for #Namesake (@canongatebooks)

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Jhalak Prize@jhalakprize · Jul 23

Just over a month to go till publication day for #UnderFire and delighted to see it at no 4 in the river category of hot new releases ... here is the first page of a child's trauma 3 years after a nazi bomb falls on their Coventry home ...preorder 🙏🏼 #readingforpleasure #WWII

ssufiya ahmed@sufiyaahmed · Jun 24

🤩 to share cover of my new WWII book #UnderFire 🕵️‍♂️🚢 with supporting quote from @tompalmerauthor From Coventry to Calcutta ...Hasan is evacuated to his grandfather but British India is not where he expected to find: 1. A secret spy agency 2.Allied soldiers fighting Japan 3. A…

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Jhalak Prize@jhalakprize · Jul 25

And their 'linguistic capital' and 'investment' in 'English' didn't give them better jobs or safer lives. It didn't give them any basic human rights or even animal rights or forests rights... #GazaStarving #GazaGenocide

ZZara Rahim@ZaraRahim · Jul 25

these same children who are starving to death right before our eyes tried holding press conferences begging us to save them in November 2023 and the world did nothing. I’ll genuinely never get over having to write these sentences as long as I live….the heart atrophies.

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Out-Spoken Press@Outspoken_Press · Jul 25

💐!!10th ANNIVERSARY!!💐 Sept 2025 marks a decade of publishing for Out-Spoken Press, founded by Anthony Anaxagorou in 2015. Come celebrate with us and a host of Out-Spoken poets at a special event: Tues 16 September, 7–10pm Star of Kings, London N1 0AX OSPanniversary.eventbrite.co.uk

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Jhalak Prize@jhalakprize · Jul 22

Oh this is cool. Resources matched up to the #InformationBookAward shortlist, including: 🤓Summary of text 🤓Discussion ideas 🤓Activities 🤓Short bios of the creators ⬇️

SSchool Library Association (SLA)@uksla · Jul 3

Have you been exploring the #InformationBookAward shortlist? #IBABookClub resources are now available to download. Find suggestions for activities to encourage interest and #booktalk and to facilitate voting in the Children's Choice categories! bit.ly/4eygWZq 📚 #uksla

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Dr Khawla Badwan@KhawlaBadwan · Jul 25

We are neither dead, nor alive too #GazaStarving #GazaGenocide #KeepTellingofGaza

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Forward Prizes@ForwardPrizes · Jul 25

MEET THE POETS First up for Best Single Poem Performed is the incredible Raymond Antrobus (@RaymondAntrobus) with Dynamic Disks, 1933 — a powerful exploration of language, sound & absence. 🎥 Watch an excerpt + full poem/interview: buff.ly/nWB8ncv #ForwardPrizes2025

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Marvin Poet 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇯🇲@MarvinPoet · Jul 24

Dear friends, big up @rmcfarlane63. His book helped me finish the 10th edit of my new book. 51 poems. I’ll do a final read-through looking for sloppy verbs then it's off to @peepaltreepress!

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Jhalak Prize@jhalakprize · Jul 22

The language of rights, childhood, law, interconnectedness, social responsibility, impact, ethics, moral standards, truth telling, humanity, feminism, interculturality, making kin on a broken planet All those in disciplines associated with this language Where is your language?

AAssal Rad@AssalRad · Jul 22

This is the world that reflects your values.

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Jhalak Prize@jhalakprize · Jul 22

Thank you @NateLessore for such an extraordinary compliment. Nate was shortlisted in 2024 and won the 2025 Jhalak C&YA Prize. If you haven't read his work yet, please do! He's incredible

TThe Rap Up@TherapupUK · Jul 21

King of Nothing byNathanael Lessore won the 2025 Jhalak Children’s & YA Prize. “Immensely readable and downright hilarious,” judges praised its insightful handling of toxic masculinity and grief with humour. Visit: bonnierbooks.co.uk/books/hot-key-… More: therapup.tv/2025-jhalak-pr… Born in…

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ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social@arablit · Jul 18

From a forthcoming essay by our beloved contributor & workshop participant & friend, @AlaaQAlQaisi. An incredibly gifted writer, translator, & scholar. Being starved.

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Jhalak Prize@jhalakprize · Jul 21

Today on ArabLit: arablit.org/2025/07/21/ben…

AArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social@arablit · Jul 18

From a forthcoming essay by our beloved contributor & workshop participant & friend, @AlaaQAlQaisi. An incredibly gifted writer, translator, & scholar. Being starved.

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📚Ashley Thorpe (Updates Only)@ashley__thorpe · Jul 21

Really looking forward to chatting with the inimitable Keisha Thompson at the Spirit Warriors launch event at Blackwell's Manchester⭐️ eventbrite.co.uk/e/spirit-warri…

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Jhalak Prize@jhalakprize · Jul 20

I did a kids' book podcast where the host said, “I didn’t love your book, but kids will!” My book later won 2 reader-voted awards. Makes me wonder why fun stories with simple prose get overlooked by reviewers & booksellers for POC books "worthy" topics & prose adults rate

TThe Guardian@guardian · Nov 5

Report finds ‘shocking and dispiriting’ fall in children reading for pleasure theguardian.com/books/2024/nov…

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The Rap Up@TherapupUK · Jul 21

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Forward Prizes@ForwardPrizes · Jul 17

The Forward Prize for Best Single Poem – Performed Live, powerful, unforgettable. 🎙️ We’re thrilled to reveal the #ForwardPrizes 2025 shortlist for Best Single Poem – Performed! Experience poetry in its most dynamic form. 🔗 Full list: buff.ly/SS35YlZ

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Forward Prizes@ForwardPrizes · Jul 17

The Forward Prize for Best Single Poem – Written Announcing the #ForwardPrizes 2025 shortlist for Best Single Poem – Written! Poems that move, resonate, and demand to be read. 👏 Huge congratulations to the shortlisted poets! 🔗Full list: buff.ly/SS35YlZ

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Forward Prizes@ForwardPrizes · Jul 17

Jerwood Prize for Best First Collection Introducing the future of poetry ✨Jerwood Prize for Best First Collection shortlist is here! Bold new voices. Brilliant debuts! #ForwardPrizes 2025 🔗 Full list: buff.ly/SS35YlZ #JerwoodPrize #BestFirstCollection #PoetryAwards

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Forward Prizes@ForwardPrizes · Jul 17

The Forward Prize for Best Collection – We’re proud to reveal the #ForwardPrizes 2025 shortlist for Best Collection! Five powerful books from some of the most compelling voices in poetry today. 👏 Congrats to the poets & publishers! 🔗 Full list: buff.ly/SS35YlZ

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Jhalak Prize@jhalakprize · Jul 17

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JJenny Mitchell@JennyMitchellGo · Jul 17

If you create poetry in a mono-culture do you end up talking to yourself, saying the same thing and never moving forward? When I'm the only person of colour in the line-up is there an issue with the line-up?

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Little Rebels Award@littlerebsprize · Jul 17

🥳Congratulations🥳to Sarah Hagger-Holt for The Fights That Make Us, shortlisted for the #LittleRebelsAward 2025. @SarahHaggerHolt @Usborne

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