The Biographer's 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 un-published or un-commissioned writers for a proposed biography.

Entries should consist of a 20 page book synopsis giving the author's cv, a note on sources, the market and competing literature and a synopsis of each chapter together with a sample ten pages from a completed chapter. The judges for the 2005 Prize are Robert Lacey, Caroline Moorehead and Miranda Seymour.  The prize, which is sponsored by the Daily Mail, is worth £1,000 and has usually led to a publishing deal.

Proposals of 15 to 20 pages should be sent to the Secretary, 17 Sutherland St, London, SW1V 4JU or preferably by email to lownie@globalnet.co.uk.

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