The Eugenie Summerfield Children's Book Prize has been established in memory of the children’s author Eugenie Summerfield. She is popularly remembered as the author of the Wriggly Worm Stories on BBC Radio Four’s ‘Listen with Mother’. Her 22 children’s books were published by publishers such as Puffin, Ward Lock, Hutchinson, Nelson and Arnold Wheaton.

The prize is for children's authors who currently live in the counties of Gloucestershire, Wiltshire or Somerset and reflects the familial links of Eugenie Summerfield.

The Prize: £500 with a short-list of five writers

Judges: Jane Bailey (Author, shortlisted for the Dillons Prize and writer-in-residence for Cheltenham Festivals First Story), Caroline Sanderson (Author, Associate Editor of The Bookseller, Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the University of Worcester, judge for the 2013 Costa Biography Award and 2016 Wales Book Award), Angela Summerfield (Fine Art oil painter, art historian and author) and Caroline Summerfield (Playwright, novelist and screenwriter.)

Submission rules and how to enter details available here

Closing date for entries: 31 January 2018