Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize 2025 - Print and digital packs (English and Welsh)

Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize 2025 - Print and digital packs (English and Welsh)

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*Free promotional materials for the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize 2025**

The Wilbur & Niso Smith Foundation have announced the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing, Best Published Novel award, shortlist for 2025.

American, British, Filipina and Jamaican authors are represented on this year’s shortlist. Hand-selected by a panel of librarians and library staff from the UK, the titles were nominated for their bold ideas, ability to transport a reader, and irresistible power to make us turn the next page. 

Find out more about the shortlisted books here.

We are pleased to offer free print and digital materials for libraries for this year's prize. If you order the physical pack, you will automatically receive the digital pack. 

Your physical pack includes:

  • Shortlist poster
  • 25 bookmarks
  • Roundel stickers

Your digital pack includes:

  • Downloadable posters for the shortlist and each of the six books
  • Social media graphics
  • Prize roundel
  • Press release
  • Discussion sheets for each book
  • Written interviews with each author, including an author biography and book blurb
  • Author headshots and cover images
  • A 'Guide to sharing the Prize online' document

Your materials will be emailed to you following purchase. Please check your junk box if you do not receive it to your inbox. Email Caitlin.Morgan@readingagency.org.uk if you have any problems downloading your pack. 

For more information, visit the Wilbur & Niso Smith Foundation website, or join in the conversation on social media using: @readingagency (X, Facebook, Instagram), @Wilbur_Niso_Fdn (X), /WNSmithFoundation (Facebook) and @adventurewritingprize (Instagram).

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