Deadline: 31 March 2011
Wine writers are invited to enter the 3rd Annual South African Wine Writers Award.
The award will be presented by the Franschhoek Wine Valley Tourist Association (FWVTA) at the Franschhoek Literary Festival in May this year.
This award was initiated in 2009 as an acknowledgement to the art of wine writing in South Africa. The R25 000 cash prize, and a custom-made artwork, was won last year by Tim James, and by Joanne Gibson in 2009.
This year, the wine writing community of South Africa is again invited to submit one wine-related article per journalist, written and published during 2010, which will be anonymously judged by a panel of local and international independent judges. The judges for this year are South African author and journalist Martie Retief-Meiring, author and US Wine critic Jay McInerney and France-based Andrew Jefford, who was International Wine Columnist of the Year at the Louis Roederer Awards 2010.
The purpose for the award is to celebrate the art of wine writing, and the articles will be evaluated on both technical accuracy and literary quality.
The closing date for submission is 31 March 2011. Articles should be submitted in the original language of publication. If necessary, they will be translated into English by translators from the University of Stellenbosch.
The articles will be forwarded anonymously to the panel of judges in an electronic PDF format. After all three judges have agreed on a winner, he or she will be announced at the Franschhoek Literary Festival on 14 May. The judges’ decision is final.
Entries need to be submitted in MSWord format to info@thefamousidea.co.za by 31 March 2011. Please ensure that the following are supplied: author, publication, date of publication, article title and author contact details.
About the South African Wine Writers Award
Established in 2009, the South African Wine Writers Award celebrates the literary art of wine writing in South Africa. It is presented annually by the Franschhoek Wine Valley Tourism Association, in association with the Franschhoek Literary Festival.
About the Franschhoek Literary Festival
The FLF has gained an international reputation as a respected celebration of books and writers, with the focus on promoting South African writing and reading, and well supported by the local community. The aims of the Franschhoek Literary Festival are to appreciate and encourage writers and writing at informal events in a village setting, to foster a vibrant culture of reading that will excite children about reading and writing, and to raise funds for community and school libraries in the Franschhoek valley so that appropriate books are available to all.
Gilly Hemphill
The Famous Idea Trading Co.
gilly@thefamousidea.co.za
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Franschhoek Literary Festival