Entries for the 2016 Royal
Society Science Books Prize, the world’s leading science books prize, are
being accepted from today 20 February 2016.
The 2016 Royal Society Science
Books Prize will celebrate the best of 2016’s new popular science writing for a
general adult readership. The Prize is open to science books written for a
non-specialist audience. The winner will receive £25,000 and the authors of the
shortlisted books £2,500.
The Royal Society is currently
looking for a partner or sponsor to help expand the Prize.
Books submitted for the prize
must have been published for the first time in English during 2015 and be
available to buy in the UK. Full details of the prize’s regulations and
eligibility criteria and the entry form are available on the Society’s website
at: https://royalsociety.org/grants-schemes-awards/book-prizes/science-books-prize/
An online entry form must be
completed for each entry, and seven non-returnable copies of each entry
submitted to the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books, 6-9 Carlton
House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AG, UK by Friday 8 April 2016.
In 2015 the Prize celebrated its
first solo female winner with Gaia Vince’s book Adventures in the
Anthropocene.
Founded in 1988 (and previously
known under different banners including the Aventis Prize, Rhône-Poulenc Prize
and Winton Prize), the Prize celebrates outstanding popular science books from
around the world and is open to authors of science books written for a
non-specialist audience. Over the decades it has championed writers such as
Stephen Hawking, Jared Diamond, Stephen Jay Gould, Robert Winston and Bill
Bryson.
The 2016 Royal
Society Young People’s Book Prize, which will celebrate the best books that
communicate science to young people, first published in English in the calendar
year of 2015, is currently also open for application. The deadline for entries
is 10 February 2016.
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