Judging process

For the first time this year, a panel of five women, all passionate readers and at the top of their respective professions, will choose the winner of the inaugural Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction.

The whole process starts in the summer of the previous year. We approach potential judges and invite UK publishers to submit eligible books.

Judges plunge immediately into reading their allocated books, basing their deliberations for the longlist, shortlist and winner on three core tenets, which mirror its sister fiction prize: excellence, originality and accessibility.