This scholarship is funded by the Booker Foundation and is worth up to £25,000 to the recipient. It is awarded annually to a student enrolled on the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) and covers course fees, living costs and travel expenses.

The recipient will be chosen by a panel of tutors on the Prose Fiction MA, and all students from the UK, Commonwealth countries and Ireland who have accepted the offer of a place on the MA will be eligible for consideration. The main criterion for shortlisting will be the quality of the application including, crucially, the quality of the written work submitted. Interview performance will be considered as part of the candidate's application.

The inaugural Booker scholar was D.W. Wilson in 2009, followed by:

  • Anthony Good in 2010
  • Eliza Robertson in 2011
  • Sharlene Teo in 2012.