The Wingate Prize
The only UK literary award to recognise authors and writing that explore the idea of Jewishness to the general reader. Established in 1977.
wingatefoundation.org.uk/literary_prize.php
- Reposted by The Wingate PrizeOctober 7 survivor Amir Tibon scoops 2026 Wingate Prize for ‘The Gates of Gaza’ www.thejc.com/news/uk/wing...
- Reposted by The Wingate PrizeThe £4,000 Wingate Literary Prize has been awarded to Amor Tibon for The Gates of Gaza (Scribe, 2025) 👇 #BookSky
- We are delighted to announce the winner of this year's Wingate Prize - Amir Tibon for his remarkable *The Gates of Gaza* Congratulations to Amir and his publishers @scribepub.bsky.social @littlebrown.bsky.social and thank you to our partners @jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk
- Amir will be appearing with the Wingate judges at an event at Kings Place as part of Jewish Book Week at 2pm on Sunday 8 March, chaired by @ekasriel.bsky.social author and Trustee of the Wingate Foundation shorturl.at/4j5xA
- And finally a big thank you to our wonderful judges @ericawgnr.bsky.social Xiaolu Guo, Kate Weinberg and Rabbi Adam Zagoria-Moffet
- Tickets are now on sale for our event - What’s Next for Jewish Books? at Jewish Book Week on 8 March. Author and Wingate Trustee @ekasriel.bsky.social will be joined by our judges @ericawgnr.bsky.social Xiaolu Guo, Kate Weinberg and Rabbi Adam Zagoria-Moffet alongside this year’s winner.
- Book your tickets jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/events/whats... Thanks as ever to our partners @jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk and to @jw3london.bsky.social for their continued support
- Reposted by The Wingate PrizeCongratulations to all the incredible authors who've made @thewingateprize.bsky.social shortlist! As partners of the prize, we're thrilled to host a special event at JBW 2026 with the winner and judges of the prize. Sign up to our newsletter to stay in the loop: shorturl.at/P1aWD
- Reposted by The Wingate PrizeCongratulations to Samantha Ellis' ALWAYS CARRY SALT (UK Title - CHOPPING ONIONS ON MY HEART) for being shortlisted for @thewingateprize.bsky.social 2026. Take a look at the rest of the amazing winners here:
- Reposted by The Wingate PrizeThrilled to partner with the Wingate Prize on this exciting award, and a big congratulations to all the authors who've made the shortlist! Don't miss our special Wingate event celebrating the winner and judges of the prize at Jewish Book Week next year (28 Feb - 8 March) shorturl.at/a1IAq
- Congratulations to all the authors and their publishers, and a big thank you to our wonderful judges, @ericawgnr.bsky.social , Kate Weinberg, Xiaolu Guo and Rabbi Adam Zagoria-Moffe, as well as our partners @jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk, and to @jw3london.bsky.social for their continued support.
- We are delighted to reveal this year’s shortlist.
- *The Einstein of Sex* by @brookfiles.bsky.social *Chopping Onions on my Heart* by @samanthaellis.bsky.social *City of Laughter* by @temim.bsky.social *Berlin Atomized* by Julia Kornberg *Letters* by Oliver Sacks, edited by Kate Edgar *The Gates of Gaza* by Amir Tibon
- Congratulations to all the authors and their publishers, and a big thank you to our wonderful judges, @ericawgnr.bsky.social , Kate Weinberg, Xiaolu Guo and Rabbi Adam Zagoria-Moffe, as well as our partners @jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk, and to @jw3london.bsky.social for their continued support.
- We'll be announcing the winner early in the new year
- Reposted by The Wingate PrizeHonored to be longlisted for the 2026 Wingate Prize! *Honoured (they're British)
- Reposted by The Wingate PrizeCongrats to Acre author @moshezmarvit.bsky.social whose #novel, NOTHING VAST, has been recognized by the prestigious @thewingateprize.bsky.social! 🎉🎉🎉 #booksky
- Reposted by The Wingate PrizeSo honored to be on this list.
- Reposted by The Wingate PrizeThank you @thewingateprize.bsky.social!
- We're delighted to announce the longlist for this year's prize. Congratulations to all of the authors and their publishers
- And a big thank you to our judges - @ericawgnr.bsky.social Kate Weinberg, Xiaolu Guo and Rabbi Adam Zagoria-Moffet. And thanks also to our partners @jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk
- Only a few days to go until we announce our longlist... Keep your eyes peeled
- We are delighted to announce this year's judging panel... Author and editor Erica Wagner is to chair and will be joined by the novelists Xiaolu Guo and Kate Weinberg and rabbi and the Director of Strategy for Masorti Judaism in the UK, Adam Zagoria-Moffet. @jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk
- Reposted by The Wingate PrizeManya Wilkinson reads from her Wingate prize-winning book Lublin - watch the newly released video on our JLF Player: shorturl.at/8LUJ2 Don't miss Manya and Ayelet Tsabari in a free online event this June 18, 5PM BST/ 12PM ET, with @thewingateprize.bsky.social and @jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social
- Reposted by The Wingate PrizeNew releases on JLF Player to enjoy this week! |The Z Word: Reclaiming Zionism: With Adam Kirsch |Inside the Wingate: A Literary Showcase @thewingateprize.bsky.social |Nicole Krauss & Naomi Alderman |One Hundred Saturdays: Michael Frank is joined by Lyn Julius Watch now: shorturl.at/FaAh3
- Reposted by The Wingate PrizeBOOK OF THE WEEK: Lublin, by Manya Wilkinson Winner of @thewingateprize.bsky.social Surreal, incredibly Jewish and heartbreakingly funny. Manya captures the absurdity and tragedy of Jewish history in Eastern Europe in the ‘30s and ‘40s with extraordinary tenderness. Read now: shorturl.at/0O3bT
- Reposted by The Wingate PrizeTo celebrate the Wingate winner Manya Wilkinson, @thewingateprize.bsky.social are hosting a special event with the @jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social, where Manya and Ayelet Tsabari will discuss their stories and inspiration. Free online event: June 18th at 5PM BST/ 12PM ET shorturl.at/eTFlG
- Reposted by The Wingate PrizeExcited for this event by @jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social & @thewingateprize.bsky.social, featuring author of one of my favorite books this year, @ayelettsabari.bsky.social, w/Manya Wilkinson & @ekasriel.bsky.social. And it's free! June 18, noon ET on Zoom. www.jewishbookcouncil.org/events/2025-...?
- Free tickets now available for How to Tell a Jewish Story with winner of this year's prize, Manya Wilkinson and Ayelet Tsabari - moderated by @ekasriel.bsky.social and hosted by the Global Jewish Literary Alliance www.jewishbookcouncil.org/events/2025-...
- Reposted by The Wingate PrizeCongratulations to our tutor & columnist, Margaret Wilkinson, whose novel, Lublin (@andotherstories.bsky.social), has won the 2025 Wingate Literary Prize @thewingateprize.bsky.social! #BookSky #WritingCommunity
- Manya Wilkinson has won the 2025 Wingate Literary Prize for Lublin (And Other Stories, 2024), a “wholly unique coming of age novel, fusing fable, history and Jewish joke-making, set against the backdrop of the oncoming darkness of the 20th century”. 👇 #BookSky
- Great piece by Manya Wilkinson, winner of this year's prize, in @boundlessmagazine.bsky.social www.boundlessmagazine.com/p/writing-in... @andotherstories.bsky.social
- Reposted by The Wingate PrizeLublin by Manya Wilkinson, published by @andotherstories.bsky.social, is the winner of this year’s @thewingateprize.bsky.social!
- Reposted by The Wingate PrizeManya Wilkinson has won the 2025 Wingate Literary Prize for Lublin (And Other Stories, 2024), a “wholly unique coming of age novel, fusing fable, history and Jewish joke-making, set against the backdrop of the oncoming darkness of the 20th century”. 👇 #BookSky
- Our winner, Manya Wilkinson, with our judges @ericawgnr.bsky.social @keironpim.bsky.social @alicesherwood.bsky.social Rabbi Zahavit Shalev and @ekasriel.bsky.social, author and Trustee of the Wingate Foundation
- Reposted by The Wingate PrizeI’m very grateful to have been a @thewingateprize.bsky.social judge and to have read this and the other brilliant books on our shortlist. What an enriching and stimulating experience this has been… thank you to all involved in running and judging the prize.
- Reposted by The Wingate PrizeLublin by Manya Wilkinson (pub. @andotherstories.bsky.social ) is such a worthy winner. It’s a beautiful, funny, poignant short novel told with exquisite control; a prewar Yiddish fable refracted through a postwar lens. A book that we judges all wanted to press on people and say: “Read this!”
- Huge congratulations to Manya Wilkinson - winner of this year’s prize for the magnificent Lublin. Thank you to our judges @ericawgnr.bsky.social @keironpim.bsky.social @alicesherwood.bsky.social and Rabbi Zahavit Shalet
- Reposted by The Wingate PrizeThis funny, moving, extraordinary novel is a worthy winner from a magnificent shortlist. Bravo Manya Wilkinson & @andotherstories.bsky.social —
- Huge congratulations to Manya Wilkinson - winner of this year’s prize for the magnificent Lublin. Thank you to our judges @ericawgnr.bsky.social @keironpim.bsky.social @alicesherwood.bsky.social and Rabbi Zahavit Shalet
- Reposted by The Wingate PrizeMassive congratulations to Manya Wilkinson for winning @thewingateprize.bsky.social - the UK's foremost prize for Jewish literature! So thrilled to be able to host such a special event at Jewish Book Week with the shortlisted authors and judges!
- Reposted by The Wingate PrizeCongratulations to Manya Wilkinson, winner of the 2025 @thewingateprize.bsky.social for Lublin! ✨
- Huge congratulations to Manya Wilkinson - winner of this year’s prize for the magnificent Lublin. Thank you to our judges @ericawgnr.bsky.social @keironpim.bsky.social @alicesherwood.bsky.social and Rabbi Zahavit Shalet
- Thank you also to our partners @jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk for hosting tonight’s ceremony at Jewish Book Week
- There are still some tickets left for this year's award ceremony which is part of Jewish Book Week thanks to our association with @jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/events/9378
- Tickets are still available for The Power of Words: Celebrating the 2025 Wingate Prize - part of this year's Jewish Book Week, thanks to our association with @jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/events/9378
- Reposted by The Wingate PrizeREMINDER! This is happening tonight with the wonderful Sara Gibbs, @sararoseg.bsky.social, Jeremy Eichler, Manya Wilkinson, Miriam Gold, and Taffy Brodesser-Akner @taffyakner.bsky.social. Register for free for tonight's event at 7pm GMT: buff.ly/42M0j8L Chaired by @alicesherwood.bsky.social
- Reposted by The Wingate PrizeI’ll be speaking at this online event tonight in case anyone wants to show up and throw their virtual knickers onstage
- Our judges @ericawgnr.bsky.social @keironpim.bsky.social @alicesherwood.bsky.social and Rabbi Zahavit Shalev have decided the winner of this year's prize. Alice Sherwood will be online talking to some of the shortlisted authors tomorrow night jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/events/insid...
- Our judges @ericawgnr.bsky.social @keironpim.bsky.social @alicesherwood.bsky.social and Rabbi Zahavit Shalev have decided the winner of this year's prize. Alice Sherwood will be online talking to some of the shortlisted authors tomorrow night jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/events/insid...
- And to find out who the winner is, tickets are now on sale for the event at Jewish Book Week here jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/events/9378 thanks to our partners @jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk
- Reposted by The Wingate PrizeVery much looking forward to hearing from our brilliant @thewingateprize.bsky.social shortlist authors - @sararoseg.bsky.social Maya Wilkinson Miriam Gold Jeremy Eichler @taffyakner.bsky.social on the 11th Feb
- Congrats to all the shortlisted authors for the 48th Wingate Prize! Don't miss our online event on 11th Feb at 7pm with judge Alice Sherwood and the authors, including readings from their books. @alicesherwood.bsky.social @thewingateprize.bsky.social Book your free ticket 👇 buff.ly/3EiQq8s
- Reposted by The Wingate PrizeCongrats to all the shortlisted authors for the 48th Wingate Prize! Don't miss our online event on 11th Feb at 7pm with judge Alice Sherwood and the authors, including readings from their books. @alicesherwood.bsky.social @thewingateprize.bsky.social Book your free ticket 👇 buff.ly/3EiQq8s
- Nephew of shortlisted author, József Debreczeni, Alexander Bruner, will be talking about *Cold Crematorium* in this online event tomorrow. Register here momentmag.com/momentlive/z...
- You can see our shortlisted author, @sararoseg.bsky.social talk about the importance of funny books on the Jewish Literary Foundation archive here jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/videos/laugh...
- Reposted by The Wingate PrizeTime’s Echo, by Jeremy Eichler, has been shortlisted for this year’s @thewingateprize.bsky.social – many congratulations to all the shortlisted authors.
- Reposted by The Wingate PrizeI’m delighted to be a judge for the @thewingateprize.bsky.social and our shortlist is out today! Six wonderful books, novels and non-fiction, from Holocaust memoir to romantic comedy, each superb in its own way. The winner will be announced at Jewish Book Week in March.
- Reposted by The Wingate PrizeHuge congratulations to Manya Wilkinson as her beautiful novel Lublin is shortlisted for the 2025 @thewingateprize.bsky.social ✨
- Congratulations Manya Wilkinson - shortlisted for this year's Wingate Prize @andotherstories.bsky.social
- Reposted by The Wingate PrizeI'm so proud that Long Island Compromise is on the shortlist for @thewingateprize.bsky.social!
- Congratulations @taffyakner.bsky.social - shortlisted for this year's Wingate Prize @wildfirebooks.bsky.social
- Reposted by The Wingate PrizeSix absolute literary gems in the @thewingateprize.bsky.social shortlist announced today. From contemporary fiction to cultural history to illustrated memoir, the shortlist showcases the range of the Wingate Prize. It is a privilege to be one of the judges. Congratulations to the authors!
- Reposted by The Wingate PrizeI loved Time's Echo: one of my favourite books of last year.
- Reposted by The Wingate PrizeThese are all wonderful books. Dive in. So thrilled to be judging this prize.
- Reposted by The Wingate PrizeSome very lovely news I can now share 😍 baby’s first literary prize shortlist! Delighted, honoured and turtling into my t-shirt!
- Congratulations @sararoseg.bsky.social - shortlisted for this year's Wingate Prize @headlinebooks.bsky.social
- We are delighted to announce this year's shortlist. Congratulations to all the authors and publishers.
- Watch this space for news of events with our partners Jewish Literary Foundation on 11 February and the winner's ceremony on 8 March as part of Jewish Book Week jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/events/the-w...
- A big thank you to our judges @ericawgnr.bsky.social @keironpim.bsky.social @alicesherwood.bsky.social and Rabbi Zahavit Shalev
- Congratulations Miriam Gold - shortlisted for this year's Wingate Prize @jonathancape.bsky.social
- Congratulations Manya Wilkinson - shortlisted for this year's Wingate Prize @andotherstories.bsky.social
- Congratulations @sararoseg.bsky.social - shortlisted for this year's Wingate Prize @headlinebooks.bsky.social
- Congratulations Jeremy Eichler - shortlisted for this year's Wingate Prize @faberbooks.bsky.social
- Congratulations @jonathancape.bsky.social - Cold Crematorium by József Debreczeni is shortlisted for this year's Wingate Prize
- Congratulations @taffyakner.bsky.social - shortlisted for this year's Wingate Prize @wildfirebooks.bsky.social
- Just over a week left until our shortlist announcement. Tickets are now on sale for our event at Jewish Book Week on Saturday 8 March, thanks to our partnership with the Jewish Literary Foundation. jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/events/the-w...
- Our shortlist is coming very soon, with the winner to be announced at a ceremony on 8th March in partnership with the Jewish Literary Foundation
- Reposted by The Wingate PrizeBrilliant to see Toby Lloyd's exceptional debut novel FERVOUR on the @thewingateprize.bsky.social longlist! 🔥
- Toby Lloyd' FERVOUR: longlisted for @thewingateprize.bsky.social 'That a young British novelist should have so effectively taken up a gauntlet laid down by the greatest American novelist of an era [Toni Morrison] might seem surprising... A lasting allegory of our dark historical time' NY Times
- Reposted by The Wingate PrizeDelighted to be a judge for the @thewingateprize.bsky.social - Longlist announced today. If you're looking for inspiration for Christmakah/Chanumas presents, look no further..
- Reposted by The Wingate PrizeToby Lloyd' FERVOUR: longlisted for @thewingateprize.bsky.social 'That a young British novelist should have so effectively taken up a gauntlet laid down by the greatest American novelist of an era [Toni Morrison] might seem surprising... A lasting allegory of our dark historical time' NY Times
- Reposted by The Wingate PrizeVery honored to be longlisted for the Wingate Prize!
- Reposted by The Wingate PrizeThe 2025 longlist has been announced for the Wingate Prize, which is for a title that represents the Jewish experience buff.ly/3OUSci9 (£)
- Reposted by The Wingate PrizeCongratulations to Taffy Brodesser-Akner (Long Island Compromise) and Yeal van der Wouden (The Safekeep)!
- The 2025 longlist has been announced for the Wingate Prize, which is for a title that represents the Jewish experience buff.ly/3OUSci9 (£)
- Reposted by The Wingate PrizeCongratulations to Manya Wilkinson, as her brilliant novel Lublin is longlisted for the 2025 @thewingateprize.bsky.social ✨
- Reposted by The Wingate PrizeWingate Literary Prize 2024 longlist announced
- Reposted by The Wingate PrizeThrilled to see FINAL VERDICT by Tobias Buck, longlisted for the 2025 Wingate Literary Prize – and in such excellent company! This 'gripping and fascinating' book 'raises vital questions about how we remember the Holocaust' (Daily Telegraph 5* review)
