Frieze Writer’s Prize 2008 Announced
The award will be judged in 2008 by Tate Triennial curator Nicolas Bourriaud, frieze co-editor Jennifer Higgie and Guardian critic Adrian Searle.
• Entrants must submit one previously unpublished 700 word review of a recent contemporary art exhibition.
• Entries must be submitted in English, but it may be a translation (this must be acknowledged).
• Entrants must be over 18 years old.
• To qualify, entrants may only previously have had a maximum of 3 pieces published in any national or regional print newspaper or magazine. Publication online does not prohibit entry
• The winning entrant will be commissioned to write a review for the October issue of frieze and be awarded £2000.
• Two further awards of £500 will be made for outstanding entries.
• Closing date is: 23rd June 2008.
Entries should either be sent to:
frieze Writer’s Prize, 81 Rivington Street, London, EC2A 3AY or emailed as a word attachment to .
The judges’ decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into regarding individual entries.
Jennifer Higgie
Responses
Added by neodisea,
Is the contest open for any nationality?
How recent must the exhibition be?
Added by jonathan_griffin,
The prize is open to any nationality. There are no strict rules about how recent the exhibition should be, although I would interpret ‘recent’ as meaning roughly within the last three months.
