Free to enter, The Somerset Maugham Awards 2011 (for UK author), prize: up to £6,000

Deadline: 30 November 2010

The Somerset Maugham Awards 2011
for a published work by an author under the age of 35
up to £6,000 for foreign travel
deadline for entries: 30th November 2010

Criteria for entry

(i) The author must be a British subject by birth but not a national of “Eire or any of the British Dominions”.
(ii) The author must be ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
(iii) The author must be under the age of 35 at 31st December 2010.
(iv) The work submitted must be a full-length book and have been first published in Britain in 2010.
(v) The work submitted may be poetry, fiction, criticism, biography, history, philosophy, belles-lettres or a travel book. Dramatic works are not eligible.

How to enter

For each entry, please complete this form and send it with four copies (non-returnable) of the book to: Paula Johnson, Awards Secretary, The Society of Authors, 84 Drayton Gardens, London SW10 9SB

More information here.