UKLA Awards

Long time sponsors of the UKLA Book Awards, LoveReading4Kids, have now developed an online bookshop with social purpose on their website www.lovereading4kids.co.uk. Now every book purchase will earn money for the UK school of your choice and, as a result of our new partnership with LoveReading, book purchases will also fundraise for UKLA.

The Brenda Eastwood Award for good practice in teaching for diversity and inclusion 2023. Submissions for this award are now open until May 15th 2023 – 12am. Winners of the award will be announced at the UKLA’s International Conference to be held at the University of Exeter June, 2023.

Celebrating children's books, the UKLA Book Awards are the only children's book awards judged by teachers.

This prestigious UKLA Award celebrates a class’ response (led by their teacher) to one of the books shortlisted for the UKLA Book Awards.

This award celebrates the practices and ethos of schools in which literacy thrives.

The UKLA Digital Book Award, in association with The Open University recognises innovation, creativity and excellence in digital book publishing.

This award is presented annually for a recently published academic text about the development of literacy that will be of interest to teachers, students, consultants or HE tutors.

Discussion groups of teachers and students shadowing the shortlists of the UKLA Book Awards

The UKLA/ Wiley Research in Literacy Education Award is a prestigious prize bestowed on the best article in the Journal of Research in Reading (JRR) and Literacy in the previous year. Both are peer-reviewed journals with international reputations for excellence.