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Warwick Prize Nominations Open to Students & Staff!

Writing about web page http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/insite/newsandevents/intnews2/2011_pfw_nominations

The Second Warwick Prize for Writing is now open for nominations and what's more, students are invited to submit titles as well. The theme for the 2011 Prize is 'Colour'. From the web pages:

The University has opened nominations for the second Warwick Prize for Writing. All University staff, Honorary Professors and Honorary Graduates can make a nomination – and this time, all Warwick students can do so too.

The Warwick Prize for Writing is unique in its scope: you can nominate any substantial piece of writing in the English language in any genre, discipline or form. It could have been published online, it could be a book, it could be factual or fictional. The Prize aims to identify excellence and innovation in new writing and help to define where writing may go, what new shapes and forms it may take and even through what media it might be conducted.

With a potential 21,000 staff & students, not to mention the Honorary Professors & Graduates on top, eligible to nominate books, I'd be tempted to encourage enough submissions to collapse the bureaucratic machine. But that's just my wilfully mischievous side coming through.

*edit 2/10/2: see comments, as Helen has pointed out bureaucratic machinery = Helen May. One person. Yes, that's right. Probably only take about 5000 entries to squash her flat, but you won't want to do that because she's lovely. But that doesn't mean don't submit, it just means, don't go saying silly anarchic statements on blogs when someone you know is lurking around the corner, unless, like me, you enjoy the taste of your own toes.*

Deadline is Friday 7th May 2010.

George Ttoouli : 05 Feb 2010 09:00 |  Tags: Warwick Prize For Writing |  Comments (2) |  Close comments |  Report a problem