The Rules 2011

The Warwick Prize for Writing is an international cross-disciplinary award which will be given biennially for an excellent and substantial piece of writing in the English language, in any genre or form, on a theme which will change with every award.
The theme of the Warwick Prize for Writing in 2011 is Colour.
The winning work will represent an intellectual, scientific and/or imaginative advance and be written with energy and clarity.
The winner will receive £50,000 and the opportunity to take up a short placement at the University of Warwick.
The Prize may not be divided, unless, as stated below, the winning work is a translation of a work first published in another language, or the work is co-authored.
The Prize may not be withheld.
Assessors from the University of Warwick will be responsible for reading all eligible nominations to agree on a list of a maximum of ten entries. A panel of five judges will be appointed. They may each add one eligible entry from the nominations to create the longlist and will then reduce it to a shortlist of six entries. The judges will choose their winner from that shortlist.
The panel of judges is chosen by the Prize Management Group, which is made up of a group of Warwick University professors and Senior Administrative staff, plus the Vice-Chancellor of the University. The role of the Prize Management Group is twofold: to select the judges and make any amendments to the rules of the Prize.

All current University of Warwick staff employed by the University by the during the nomination period, emeritus professors and readers, current students registered at the University of Warwick during the nomination period, Warwick honorary graduates and Warwick honorary professors are eligible to make one nomination.
Members of the main judging panel are not eligible to make a nomination.
The identity of the nominator will remain confidential.
Nominations should reach the Prize Administrator by Friday 7 May 2010 through the Warwick Prize for Writing website.

The Prize is open to excellent and substantial pieces of writing in the English language in print or electronic form.
Nominations are invited from all disciplines on an international scale.
The theme of the 2011 Prize is Colour.
Eligible works must have been published for the first time - whether in print or electronically - between 1 May 2008 and 30 April 2010.
Current University of Warwick staff, emeritus professors and readers, current University of Warwick students and Honorary Professors are ineligible to be nominated for the Prize.
Nominations may be translations of a work first published in another language. If so, the work must be the first English translation and must have appeared for the first time within the stated prize period. The prize for such a work will be divided between the original author and the translator in the ratio 70:30.
Self-nominations are ineligible.
Authors must be living at the time the nomination is made.
The decision of the administrator as to whether a book is eligible shall be binding. The decision of the judges as to the winner is similarly binding. No correspondence shall be entered into.
No entry shall be ineligible because its author has won the prize previously.
Entries must be submitted by an authorised nominator by Friday 7 May 2010.
The judges may also each call in one entry which has been nominated to go on the longlist.
No submissions will be returned.

The Warwick Prize for Writing