The Brit Writers' Awards is an exciting new initiative to encourage and inspire unpublished writers of all ages.

The Brit Writers' Awards are being launched by the founding team behind the now internationally acclaimed Muslim Writers' Awards (MWA). That initiative has enjoyed tremendous success over the past three years, with entries going from 400 in the first year of the awards to 10,000 last year.

Having achieved great things in just a couple of years, we're keen now to share the energy, excitement and community-building potential of a huge writing competition with the rest of the nation. In line with our vision, we're widening it out into a national British writers' awards event that attracts and accepts entries from people of all backgrounds and all ages.

Not only do we want you to share your writing with the rest of the UK, but we'd love to reward you for doing so – with national acclaim for the shortlisted entrants and a fabulous £10,000 prize for the overall winner.

Learn more about the categories and entry process and stimulate your creativity with our news and features section. And then: get writing! You could be a finalist at our glittering awards ceremony in June 2010...

See who'll be judging your work!