The Sunday Times Peters Fraser + Dunlop Young Writer of the Year Award, in association with the University of Warwick, is extending its digital offer with high-profile authors and literary experts contributing to an engaging, accessible online hub for emerging and aspiring writers.

The website, youngwriteraward.com, will start to roll out from Wednesday 8 August and it will be a free-to-all content programme in support of writers at the beginning of their careers, featuring:

• Monthly ‘How To’ guides. These accessible, essay-format pieces will provide writers with a DIY online writing course. The series is written by a different writer each year; in 2018 by the author AL Kennedy, Associate Professor at the University of Warwick.
• Monthly ‘What I Wish I Had Known When I Started Writing’ articles. Well-known writers will think back to when they began for these narrative-driven pieces that will encourage, stimulate, and surprise. The series starts with Paul Beatty, Anne Enright, Ian Rankin and Nick Hornby. Paul Beatty’s piece will launch the new programme on Wednesday, 8 August.
• Regular ‘Top Tips’ posts by experts from the growing family of partners that make up the prize, with informed, behind-the-scenes contributions from staff at Peters Fraser + Dunlop, staff and students at the University of Warwick, and journalists from The Sunday Times, well as guest posts from experts from the literary world, such as the British Council, publishers and writers.

The Young Writer of the Year Award rewards the best work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry by a British or Irish author aged between 18 and 35. Last year, Sally Rooney won the prize for her debut novel Conversations with Friends.