£50,000 reward for excellent

Nominations for the University’s first ‘Warwick Prize for Writing’ have opened, offering the chance for writers across disciplines to win £50,000 and a short placement at the Univeristy.

The theme for entries is ‘complexity’, of which director of the award David Morley commented: “can be felt as a stone in the shoe of good writing, yet”, something that “might be part of the writer’s long and sometimes stony journey to simplicity.”

The judging panel now has until February 2009 to choose the winning title. The panel is comprised of China Miéville, award-winning writer of fiction and non-fiction and chair of the panel; Maya Jaggi, award-winning critic and arts journalist; Jackie Kay, one of Britain’s best-known poets; Stephen Mitchelmore, Britain’s first book blogger; and professor Ian Stewart, author and active research mathematician working on pattern formation and chaos theory.