Fancy a grand? Prizes galore for beer writers
Beer we go again for the biggest and best awards for beer writers and broadcasters!
If you think you have got the words to be Beer Writer of the Year and fancy winning £1,000 the British Guild of Beer Writers is giving writers, broadcasters, photographers, poets illustrators, designers and webmasters the chance to enter their work in five different categories, with one of the category winners to be named as the British Guild of Beer Writers' Beer Writer of the Year.
Nominations and entries are being sort for five categories:
l The Artois Bock Award for National Journalism, which includes the national press, consumer magazines, national television, radio, internet, web pages and other electronic media. Sponsored by InBev, the award has a first prize of £1,000 and the runner-up will receive £500 in cash.
The Cains Finest Lager Award for Regional Journalism is for the very best regional beer writing or broadcasting. The category includes local and regional newspapers, radio and television, CAMRA newsletters and books published regionally. Sponsored by Cains, the award has a first prize of £1,000 and the runner-up will receive £500 in cash.
The Bishops Finger Beer with Food Award for Beer and Food Writing is for a piece written or broadcast in national, local or regional media. It could have appeared in a trade magazine, company publication, on the internet or been part of a video. The objective is to encourage journalists to write or broadcast material on the subject of matching beer with food, a subject area formerly dominated by wine. Sponsored by Shepherd Neame, there is a first prize of £1,000 and a weekend break for the winner and a companion at a Shepherd Neame pub hotel.
The Budvar Travel Bursary is for the best article or book published in English on overseas beer matters. There's a prize of £1,000 plus a trip to the brewery in the Czech Republic .
The Trade and Technical Journalism Award for the very best writing in trade and company newspapers, newsletters, magazines and web sites. There's a first prize of £1,000.
To enter the competition send four copies of each entry, published or broadcast in the 12 months up to 30 September 2005 (and stating where it appeared) by 7 October to:
Beer Writers Competition, c/o Morrice Partnership Ltd, IT Centre, York Science Park, Heslington, York YO10 5DG.
For website entries, send web address only.
Entrants are asked to nominate which category they would like their work to be entered into but the judges reserve the right to consider work for other categories. There is no limit to the number of categories that an individual may enter.
Entrants do not have to be members the of British Guild of Beer Writers they just have to communicate about beer or beer culture, new products or the ingredients and brewing of beer.
Entries can only be returned if accompanied by a self-addressed, stamped envelope or packaging.
For more information on the British Guild of Beer Writers Awards contact Tim Hampson, tel: 07768 614283, email tim@infopub.co.uk or visit www.beerwriters.co.uk
