The Biographers' Club Prize

The 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  It is unusual in that it is open to previously unpublished or uncommissioned writers and aims to fund the researching and writing of a proposed biography.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 2005 Prize are HRH Princess Michael of Kent (author of The Serpent and the Moon and Crowned in a Far Country), Jeremy Lewis (whose recent subjects include Allen Lane and Cyril Connolly), and Paul Laity of the London Review of Books.

The prize, which is sponsored by the Daily Mail, is worth £1,000 and has usually led to a publishing deal.

Applicants should submit (preferably by email) a proposal of 15-20 pages (double-spaced), including a synopsis, a sample chapter of no more than 10 pages, a note on the market for the book, sources consulted and competing literature, and a CV 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 2006.

The winner will be announced at a lunch in September. The first four
winners of the Prize all secured publishing deals, some running into six figures.
 

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