Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writer's Award

The Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writer's Award is given annually to two writers to support their work on a forthcoming book, either fiction or non-fiction, relating to the Americas. It is supported by the Hay Festival and the British Library's Eccles Centre for American Studies. The winners each receive £20,000, divided into four quarterly grants, and have a research residency at the Eccles Centre, with curatorial support, and opportunities to promote their work at Hay Festival events in the UK and elsewhere. The award was previously known as the Eccles British Library Writer in Residence Award and the Eccles British Library Writers Award.

Winners

Past winners, and the books for which they won their awards, include:

2012:
* Sheila Rowbotham: Rebel Crossings: New Women, Free Lovers, and Radicals in Britain and the United States
* Naomi Wood: Mrs Hemingway
2013:
* Andrea Wulf: The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the lost Hero of Science
* John Burnside: Ashland and Vine
2014:
* Olivia Laing: The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
* Erica Wagner: Chief Engineer: The Man Who Built the Brooklyn Bridge
2015:
* Sarah Churchwell: Mastery
* Benjamin Markovits: A Weekend in New York
2016:
* William Atkins: The Immeasurable World: Journeys in Desert Places
* Alison MacLeod: Tenderness
2017:
* Hannah Kohler: Catspaw
* Bob Stanley: Let's Do It: The Birth of Pop
2018:
* Stuart Evers: The Disappearances
* Tessa McWatt: Shame on Me: An Anatomy of Race and Belonging
2019:
* Rachel Hewitt: In Her Nature
* Sara Taylor: Children of Sorrow
2020:
* Chloe Aridjis: Reports from the Land of the Bats
* Daniel Saldaña París: Principio de mediocridad
2021:
* Pola Oloixarac: Atlas Literario del Amazonas
* Imaobong Umoren: Empire Without End: A New History of Britain and the Caribbean
2022:
* Philip Clark: Sound and the City
* Javier Montes for Trópico de Londres
2023:
* Ayanna Lloyd Banwo: Dark Eye Place
* Jarred McGinnis: The Mountain Weight
2024
* Hannah Lowe: Moy: In Search of Nelsa Lowe
*Alia Trabucco Zerán: Impudence
2025:
*Peter Brathwaite: Not All of Me Will Die
*Joseph Zarate: ''Todo nace en el agua y muere en ella''