This list of writing awards is an index to articles about notable awards for writing other than literary awards. It includes general writing awards, science writing awards, screenwriting awards and songwriting awards.
General
editCountry | Award | Venue / sponsor | Notes |
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United States | Brass Crescent Awards | Shahed Amanullah and Aziz Poonawalla | Best Muslim or Islam-themed weblogs |
United States | HWA Silver Hammer Award | Horror Writers Association | HWA volunteer who has done a truly massive amount of work for the organization |
Japan | Kobo Emerging Writer Prize | Rakuten | Three different genres |
United States | Lange-Taylor Prize | Duke University | Collaboration between documentary writers and photographers |
United Kingdom | Miles Morland Foundation Writing Scholarship | Miles Morland Foundation | African writers to enable them write a fiction or non-fiction book in English language |
United States | New York State Writers Hall of Fame | Empire State Center for the Book | Recognize the legacy of individual New York State writers |
United States | Niblet award | Mormon blogosphere | Outstanding contributions to the bloggernacle |
United States | PAGE International Screenwriting Awards | PAGE Awards | Discover and promote up-and-coming new screenwriters from around the world |
Thailand | Silpathorn Award | Ministry of Culture of Thailand | Promote Thai contemporary artists who are considered to be in their mid-career and who have already made notable contributions to Thai fine arts and culture |
Denmark | Tagea Brandt Rejselegat | Tagea Brandt Rejselegat | Scholarship for women who have made a significant contribution in science, literature or art |
United Kingdom | Travelling Scholarship | Society of Authors | Enable British creative writers to keep in touch with their colleagues abroad |
United States | Writers Guild of America Awards | Writers Guild of America | Outstanding achievements in film, television, radio and video game writing |
Science writing awards
editCountry | Award | Venue / sponsor | Notes |
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United Kingdom | Best science book ever | Royal Institution | Based on vote |
United States | Chambliss Astronomical Writing Award | American Astronomical Society | |
Canada | Yves Fortier Earth Science Journalism Award | Geological Association of Canada | |
United States | James T. Grady-James H. Stack Award for Interpreting Chemistry | American Chemical Society | |
Denmark | H. C. Ørsted Medal | Society for the Dissemination of Natural Science | |
Canada | Innis-Gérin Medal | Royal Society of Canada | Literature of the social sciences |
Poland | Jan Długosz Award | International Book Fair in Kraków | Polish works that contribute to advancement of science and cultural enrichment |
United States | John Burroughs Medal | John Burroughs Association | Work distinguished in the field of natural history |
Canada | Lane Anderson Award | Fitzhenry Family Foundation | Canadian non-fiction science; adult and young readers |
International | Ludwik Fleck Prize | Society for the Social Studies of Science | Published book in science and technology studies |
United States | Patrusky Lecture | Council for the Advancement of Science Writing | |
United States | PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award | PEN America | |
Canada | Prix Hubert-Reeves | Association of Science Communicators of Quebec | Canadian author(s) of a popular science book written in French and published in Canada |
United Kingdom | Royal Society of London Michael Faraday Prize | Royal Society | Excellence in communicating science to UK audiences |
United Kingdom | Royal Society Prizes for Science Books | Royal Society | Outstanding popular science books from around the world |
United States | Science in Society Journalism Awards | National Association of Science Writers | Outstanding investigative and interpretive reporting about the sciences and their impact for good and ill |
United States | Science Writing Award | American Institute of Physics | |
United States | Walter P. Kistler Book Award | Foundation For the Future | Science books that significantly increase the knowledge and understanding of the public regarding subjects that will shape the future of our species |
Screenwriting awards for film
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