Cherie Blair has stepped in to help fund the Women's Prize for Fiction - previously the Orange Prize - while it looks for new sponsors. Organisers ...

Madeline Miller has won The Orange Prize for Fiction 2012 with The Song of Achilles, her debut novel. The American claimed the award - along with ...

Tonight the last winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction will take away a £30,000 prize and a place in the history books, as the organisers look for a...

The Orange Prize shortlist has been announced - the only annual book prize in the UK that focuses solely on rewarding female authors. Some might fe...

The Orange Prize has announced its 2012 shortlist. This year sees one British author make the cut, Georgina Harding for her novel Painter of Silen...

Other than a fairly crucial commitment to brevity, what is it that makes a short story a short story? As the 2012 edition of the world's richest prize for the form comes to a conclusion, I spoke with this year's shortlist to get their own insights into the art and craft of writing short fiction.

A former teacher and one-time ski lodge manager, Emma Henderson graduated with a distinction from Birkbeck's MA Creative Writing course in 2006. Her luminous debut, Grace Williams Says It Loud (Sceptre, 2010), was shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize and the Orange Prize. A second novel is in the works.

A 'prize winner' sticker is a powerful thing in the book world, which is why literary awards - particularly the big ones - are important for far more ...