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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Shane Hickey

Winners and judges out of pocket as £20,000 writing awards appear to have closed

An author with her manuscript and a laptop
An author with her manuscript. The Plaza Prizes website was inaccessible this week. Photograph: Robert Carner/Alamy

A competition for new writers that promised a £20,000 prize fund appears to have shut down, leaving winners and judges, including a Booker prize-winning novelist, out of pocket.

Established in 2022, the Plaza Prizes last year offered 10 awards that were judged by the “finest poets and writers in the world”.

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