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The judges for THE SPECTATOR'S New Writing Prize 1971 will

be: Short story category: Kingsley Amis, novelist, poet and essayist, the film of whose book Take a Girl Like You is currently on general release. Descriptive reporting: Brian Inglis, former Editor of THE SPECTATOR and Chairman of Granada TV's 'What the Papers Say' panel. Investigative reporting: Bob Edwards, one-time Editor of Tribune, the Daily Express and now Editor of The People. Political essay or polemic: Christopher Booker, author, and founder and first Editor of Private Eye. Also on the panel will be Christopher Hudson, deputy literary Editor of THE SPECTATOR and poetry adviser to Faber and Faber, and (as Chairman) George Gale, Editor of the SPECTATOR.