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Chance To Win £1,000 - A Call For Student Writers
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09 February 2010
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A great chance to win £1,000, trip to the Norman Mailer Writers Colony, a residential educational centre based at the legendary author's former home in Provincetown, Massachusetts, USA. For Student Writers of UK universities.
via GQ - Magazine
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British GQ magazine and the Norman Mailer Writers Colony announce a new annual competition for non-fiction writing
Student writers: Win £1,000 plus the literary trip of a lifetime
The winner will be invited to spend a month at the Norman Mailer Writers Colony, a residential educational centre based at the legendary author's former home in Provincetown, Massachusetts, USA. All travel, accommodation and expenses covered. Plus a cheque for £1,000 and the chance to be published in a future issue of Britain's leading men's magazine.
Runners-up will receive cash prizes and the chance to be published in GQ.
Here's how it works
We are calling for submissions of published and unpublished work completed in the twelve months from May 1 2009.
Entries can be on any topic but must be no less than 2,000 and no more than 4,000 words long and submitted by email to gqmaileraward@condenast.co.uk, on or before May 1, 2010. Entries must be submitted as Word documents, double spaced.
All entries, which must be non-fiction, must include name, home address, name of college / university, email address and phone number, including mobile phone.
The competition is open to all undergraduates and postgraduates at UK universities. Entrants must be over 18 years old on February 4, 2010.
Judges
The awards will be judged by a panel including GQ Feature Director Alex Bilmes; Canongate publisher Jamie Byng; Condé Nast Managing Director and bestselling author Nicholas Coleridge; award-winning novelist and critic Geoff Dyer; GQ Editor Dylan Jones; bestselling novelist and GQ Contributing Editor Tony Parsons; publisher and investor Spas Roussev; Editor of the Times Literary Supplement Sir Peter Stothard; platinum-selling singer-songwriter Lily Allen; and leading literary agent Ed Victor.
Good luck!
Student writers: Win £1,000 plus the literary trip of a lifetime
The winner will be invited to spend a month at the Norman Mailer Writers Colony, a residential educational centre based at the legendary author's former home in Provincetown, Massachusetts, USA. All travel, accommodation and expenses covered. Plus a cheque for £1,000 and the chance to be published in a future issue of Britain's leading men's magazine.
Runners-up will receive cash prizes and the chance to be published in GQ.
Here's how it works
We are calling for submissions of published and unpublished work completed in the twelve months from May 1 2009.
Entries can be on any topic but must be no less than 2,000 and no more than 4,000 words long and submitted by email to gqmaileraward@condenast.co.uk, on or before May 1, 2010. Entries must be submitted as Word documents, double spaced.
All entries, which must be non-fiction, must include name, home address, name of college / university, email address and phone number, including mobile phone.
The competition is open to all undergraduates and postgraduates at UK universities. Entrants must be over 18 years old on February 4, 2010.
Judges
The awards will be judged by a panel including GQ Feature Director Alex Bilmes; Canongate publisher Jamie Byng; Condé Nast Managing Director and bestselling author Nicholas Coleridge; award-winning novelist and critic Geoff Dyer; GQ Editor Dylan Jones; bestselling novelist and GQ Contributing Editor Tony Parsons; publisher and investor Spas Roussev; Editor of the Times Literary Supplement Sir Peter Stothard; platinum-selling singer-songwriter Lily Allen; and leading literary agent Ed Victor.
Good luck!
via GQ - Magazine
