THE SPECTATOR'S £500 NEW WRITING PRIZE

An annual prize of £500 will be awarded by the SPECTATOR to whoever In the opinion of the judges, submits the best piece of original, unpublished, new writing of not less than 2,000 words and not more than 6,000 words, in any of the following categories: 1. a short story or (other) imaginative fiction; 2. descriptive reporting; 3. investigative reporting; 4. a political essay, or a polemic.

In addition, an award of £50 will be made to the author of the piece of writing judged best in each category.

Impartiality In judging will be ensured by an entry system which preserves the anonymity of competitors.

Entries must be received by the end of February 1971, and the names of the prize- winner, and the award winners, will he announced during April.

Conditions of entry

1. All competitors must enter under a pseu- donym. The writer's real name should not appear anywhere on the typescript, but the pseudonym should appear at the top of every page. Entries, in duplicate, must be In Eng- lish, and in typescript.

2. Typescripts should be accompanied by a sealed envelope, bearing on the outside the pseudonym and containing inside a stamped addressed envelope bearing the writer's name and address in capital letters. These sealed envelopes will not be opened until the judges have made their choices.

3. Typescripts should reach the SPECTATOR, 99 Gower Street, London, WCI, not later than the last post on 28 February 1971.

ENTRY FORM

4. Each Individual entry must be accompanied by an entry form.

5. Copyright of all entries published by the SPECTATOR rests with the SPECTATOR.

6. Extracts or incomplete works will not be accepted The SPECTATOR's Sixth-Form Prize. A schools competition will be run in association with the SPECTATOR's SPRING PRIZE. A Sixth-Form Prize of £25 for the best entry, and awards of £10 for the best in each of the other categories, will also be made. Entries for this competition will only be accepted when accompanied by a statement from an appropriate master that the entrant Is a member of the sixth form of his school; but otherwise the conditions of entry are identical.

SIXTH-FORM PRIZE Pseudonym*

Category:* • (1) short story or (other) imaginative

EI *fiction

(2) descriptive reporting • (3) investigative reporting

• (4) a political essay, or a polemic 'Please tick In appropriate box.

Pseudonym.

Category:* (1) short story or (other) imaginative fiction (2) descriptive reporting (3) investigative reporting

(4) a political essay, or a polemic