Women’s Prize judges announced for 2025

The Women’s Prize has announced stellar judging panels for both the Fiction and Non-Fiction Prizes for 2025.

Blake Morgan has partnered the Women’s Prize Trust for a number of years and are proud to continue to support the charity. The Women’s Prize for Fiction is int its 30^th year with the Non-Fiction Prize in its second, following a successful launch in 2024.

The Women’s Prize for Fiction judging panel is chaired by international bestselling author, Kit de Waal. She is joined by novelist, journalist and inaugural winner of the Orange Award for New Writers (the Women’s Prize for debut novelists in 2006), Diana Evans; author, journalist and mental-health campaigner, Bryony Gordon; magazine editor, most recently Editor-in-Chief of Glamour UK, Deborah Joseph; and musician and composer known for award-winning film scores, Amelia Warner.

Kit commented: “What an honour to be the chair of the 2025 Women’s Prize for Fiction – and in its 30th anniversary year! Not only do I get to read the most brilliant novels by women around and hear what they have to say about our world, but I’m judging with such interesting fellow judges, with all of us looking for the same thing: books that inspire and inform across the genres, books that make us laugh and weep, books that take chances without apology, and above all, books that stay with us long after the last page is read. I’m thrilled and excited.”

The Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction 2025 judging panel is chaired by award-winning journalist, broadcaster and author Kavita Puri. Kavita is joined by the writer and broadcaster, Dr Leah Broad, whose work focuses on women’s cultural history; novelist and critic, Elizabeth Buchan; writer and environmental academic Dr Elizabeth-Jane Burnett; and author and writer of The Hyphen newsletter on Substack, Emma Gannon.

Kavita remarked: “It’s an enormous privilege to chair the second year of the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction, to celebrate outstanding female writers who are creating original work, across a broad range of genres, from history to science and nature, and beyond. Along with my fellow judges, I look forward to seeing how they are responding – in their own fields – to some of the biggest questions of our time, and elevating their exceptional voices.”

Longlist and shortlist announcements will be made next year and the 2025 winners for the Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction will be announced together in an evening ceremony in central London on Thursday 12 June.

Blake Morgan Legal Director, Michelle Davenport added:

“We are thrilled to continue to partner the Women’s Prize Trust and support the awards. These awards bring people together through a passion for books and reading. I am looking forward to finding out the longlists for both sets of awards.”