The Bookseller - Spotlight - Women’s Prize flourishing after charitable pivot as year-round strategy pays off

If any lesson has been driven home in this summer of our literary prize discontent, it may be that the funding model of a headline sponsor ponying up most of the dough for a book award can be precarious.

The climate that has seen the Costa and Blue Peter gongs go, and a Damoclesian sword quivering above the Desmond Elliott and Sunday Times Short Story prizes, surely begs the question whether the literary award in general is facing something of an existential moment.