Wales’ book of the year shortlist for 2025 highlights the nation’s “incredible talent, expertise, knowledge, and craft”, according to one of the judges.

The competition includes poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, and children and young people categories in both English and Welsh.

Author and Children’s Laureate Wales, Eloise Williams, said the shortlist showed it was “an exciting time to be a Welsh writer sending words from Wales to the world”.

The winners will be announced at an awards ceremony in July.

The competition is judged by two separate panels focusing on each language and it has been run by national charity Literature Wales since 2004.

The awards ceremony takes place at Cardiff’s Sherman Theatre on 17 July with a total of £14,000 shared amongst the writers, with £1,000 each for the category winners and an additional £3,000 for the overall winners in both languages.