In a time when we need art more than ever, this collaboration between London Writers Centre and Wellcome Collection enables our most talented emerging writers to evoke different perspectives and insights about our society. The programme is immersive, comprehensive and truly the best ladder you could give to any writer and I’mdeeply proud to be a part of supporting new writing from the margins and to support London Writers Centre once again.
I’m very excited to be judging this year’s Wellcome Collection Non-Fiction Awards. We need more underrepresented voices shaping narratives on health, but too many currently face barriers to access in the publishing industry. I’m keen to read interventions that feel unexpected, either in their subject, their tone or their approach to storytelling.
I’m hugely excited to be working with the Wellcome Collection and London Writers Centre teams on this prize – expert-led non-fiction that helps us all to understand the lives we lead and the bodies we inhabit has never been more important and I’m looking forward to discovering some essential new voices and making sure they’re heard.
We’re excited to run this programme again this year, to support a new cohort of writers with a big idea on health and human being. Particularly following the successes of 2025 – with all six awardees securing offers of representation in the autumn, and Masud Husain’s brilliant win of the Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize with Our Brains, Our Selves. We can’t wait to be challenged, surprised and inspired by the entries that come in.
