The Tony Lothian Biographers’ Club Prize 2012
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The Biographers' Club Tony Lothian Prize
Deadline: 1 August 2012
Eligibility: open to uncommissioned writers working on a biography
Prize of £2,000
Entry fee £10
The £2,000 Tony Lothian Prize (sponsored by Tony Lothian's daughter, Elizabeth, Duchess of Buccleuch) supports uncommissioned first-time writers working on a biography.
This year’s judges are: the journalist and broadcaster Michael Crick (author of Scargill and the Miners, Jeffrey Archer: Stranger than Fiction and The Boss: The Many Sides of Alex Ferguson); Neil McKenna (On the Margins, The Silent Epidemic and The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde); and Carole Seymour-Jones (Beatrice Webb: A Life, Painted Shadow: The Life of Vivienne Eliot and A Dangerous Liaison: Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre).
Applicants should submit 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 and competing literature, to the prize administrator: Anna Swan, email: anna@annaswan.co.uk or by post to 119A Fordwych Road, London NW2 3NJ. Enquiries: 020 8452 4993.
The deadline for entries is 1 August 2012. Entry fee: £10 (cheques payable to the Biographers’ Club). For further details and mandatory entry form visit www.biographersclub.co.uk