Discover the 2024 Jhalak Prize and Jhalak Children's & YA Prize longlists
We’re thrilled to be partnering with the Jhalak Prize for the fourth year in a row so we can support bookshops everywhere to promote the longlisted, shortlisted and winning titles to your customers, and highlight the incredible work that you all do to raise awareness for new books within your communities.
The Jhalak Prize and Jhalak Children's & YA Prize seek to support and celebrate books by British and British resident writers of colour. As part of our partnership in 2023, we distributed point of sale kits and social media assets to more than 140 bookshops so they could create instore displays and shout about the titles from their online channels, with many hundreds more receiving digital assets to share online. This year, more than 150 bookshops have already signed up to celebrate with us. If you'd like to join them, request your free point-of-sale kit for the 18th April shortlist announcement by emailing Lisa at marketing@booktokens.co.uk by 22nd March.
This year's longlists were announced on 14th March, with titles by new and established authors, spanning a range of genres: from fiction, non-fiction, short stories and poetry to picture books, early readers and young adult fiction. Find out more about this year's longlists and download assets to promote the longlisted titles on your social channels and website.
Below are the full longlists, including ISBNs, which can all currently be ordered from Gardners.
Jhalak Prize 2024 longlist
A Flat Place, Noreen Masud (Penguin, 9780241544051)
A Pebble in The Throat, Aasmah Mir (Headline, 9781472288523)
Anansi’s Gold: The Man Who Swindled The World, Yepoka Yeebo (Bloomsbury, 9781526668578)
Azucar, Nii Ayikwei Parkes (Peepal Tree Press, 9781845235475)
Boundary Road, Ami Rao (Everything with Words, 9781911427353)
Bright Fear, Mary Jean Chan (Faber & Faber, 9780571378906)
Elsewhere, Yan Ge (Faber & Faber, 9780571373116)
Fire Rush, Jacqueline Crooks (Penguin, 9781787333635)
River Spirit, Leila Aboulela (Saqi Books, 9780863569173)
Self-Portrait As Othello, Jason Allen-Paisant (Carcanet, 9781800173101)
Small Worlds, Caleb Azumah Nelson (Penguin, 978241574348)
Twelve Words for Moss, Elizabeth Jane Burnett (Penguin, 9780241556832)
Jhalak Children's & YA Prize 2024 longlist
Friendship Never Ends, Alexandra Sheppard (Knights Of, 9781913311414)
Geoffrey Gets The Jitters, Nadia Shireen (Puffin, 9780241623688)
How to Die Famous, Benjamin Dean (Simon and Schuster, 9781398512573)
Koku Akanbi and the Heart of Midnight, Maria Montunrayo Adebisi, ill. Simone Douglas (Orion Children’s Books, 9781510111431)
My Life as a Chameleon, Diana Anyakwo (Little Brown, 9781472156150)
Part of a Story that Started Before Me, chosen by George the Poet (Penguin, 9780241566992)
Poetry Prompts, Joseph Coelho, ill. Georgie Brikette, Grasya Oliyko, Amanda Quartey & Viola Wang (Quarto Kids, 9780711285118)
Safiyyah’s War, Hiba Noor Khan (Andersen Press, 9781839133138)
Steady for This, Nathaniel Lessore (Hot Key Books, 9781471413223)
Story of Now, Shelina Janmohamed, ill. Laura Greenan (Welbeck Children’s Books, 9781803381442)
To The Other Side, Erika Meza (Hodder Children’s Books, 9781444971774)
Wild Song, Candy Gourlay (David Fickling Books, 9781788452076)
KEY DATES:
Longlists announced: 14th March
Shortlists announced: 18th April
Winners announced: 30th May
We'll be sending updates and social media assets at every stage of the prize, so do keep an eye out!
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