Biographers' Club Prize 2007
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The Biographers' Club Prize 2007
We are featuring this prize again as last year our listing helped the organisers to achieve a record number of entries.
The Biographers Club Prize was established in 1999 to finance and encourage first-time writers researching a biography. It is unusual in that it is open to previously unpublished or uncommissioned writers and aims to fund the researching and writing of a proposed biography.
The judges for the 2007 Prize are Anne Sebba (whose books include biographies of Mother Teresa, Enid Bagnold and the forthcoming Jennie Churchill: Winston’s American Mother), Rachel Holmes (author of Dr James Barry: Scanty Particulars and The Hottentot Venus) and Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson Founded 1995.
General full-length MSS - no children's books.
The prize, which is sponsored by the Daily Mail, is worth £2,000 and has usually led to a publishing deal.
Applicants should submit (preferably by email) a proposal of no more than 20 pages, including a synopsis and 10-page sample chapter (double-spaced, numbered pages), CV and a note on the market for the book, sources consulted and competing literature, to the prize administrator: Anna Swan, anna@annaswan.co.uk or by post to 119A Fordwych Road, London NW2 3NJ.
The deadline for entries is 1 August 2007.
Entry fee: £10 (cheques made payable to the Biographers’ Club).
Further details at www.biographersclub.co.uk
The winner will be announced at a lunch in September.
In 2006 the Prize had its firstall-female short list.
The winner was Helen Smith (for Edward Garnett: Midwife of Genius and she has recently signed contracts for its publication byJonathan Cape in the UK and Farrar, Straus in the US.
