Free to enter, 2011 Cheshire Prize for Literature (unpublished manuscript for children), prize: £2,000

Deadline: 1 September 2011

The High Sheriff ’s Cheshire Prize for Literature

Rules and Conditions

1. The 2011 Cheshire Prize for Literature will be awarded for an original and previously unpublished piece of writing for children. The entry may be in prose or verse. A prose entry should not exceed 1,500 words. A verse entry should not exceed 100 lines. The intended readership is seven to 14-year old children.
2. The writer must have been born, live or have lived, study or have studied, work or have worked, in Cheshire. For the purposes of the Prize, Cheshire is deemed to include the Wirral, as well as Warrington and Halton. Documentary evidence of eligibility may be required.
3. Entrants must be aged 18 years or over on 1st September 2011.
4. Entries must be received by 1st September 2011. Three typed, (non-returnable) copies of the entry should be sent to: The Cheshire Prize for Literature, University of Chester, Parkgate Road, Chester, CH1 4BJ. The writer’s name should not feature on the entry itself. A covering letter should include the writer’s name and address, telephone number and/ or email address, and the title of the entry submitted. Entrants from outside the county must state the reason for their eligibility. There is no charge for entering the competition. Entrants may submit only one entry.
5. Entries will be judged anonymously, by a panel chaired by Jaki Brien, Senior Lecturer from the Faculty of Education and Children’s Services at the University of Chester. The decision of the judging panel will be fi nal. No correspondence can be entered into concerning individual entries.
6. By entering the competition the writer consents to their work being published.

Enquiries about eligibility, or requests for further information, should be directed to:

The Cheshire Prize for Literature,
University of Chester
Parkgate Road, Chester, CH1 4BJ
Tel: 01244 513240
Email: l.baguley@chester.ac.uk
Information is also available at
www.chester.ac.uk/literatureprize

More information here.