[1][2][3] It was announced in June 2023 that the inaugural sponsor of the prize would be the family tree company Findmypast.
[4] Kate Mosse, announcing the launch of the prize, said it was "not about taking the spotlight away from the brilliant male writers, it's about adding the women in".
[5] The prize entry criteria state that: "Any woman writing in English – whatever her nationality, country of residence, age or subject matter – is eligible.
"[6] The 2024 judges were historian Suzannah Lipscomb (chair), fair fashion campaigner Venetia La Manna, academic, author and consultant, Professor Nicola Rollock, biographer and journalist Anne Sebba, and author and 2018 winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction Kamila Shamsie.
[8] The Guardian noted that the subject matter of the longlisted books included "Capitalism, artificial intelligence, Renaissance history and motherhood".