Young Reviewers Competition

The London Review of Books, Europe’s bestselling literary magazine, is holding a competition for young reviewers. The prize for the best entry is £1000 and a one-year subscription to the LRB. Prizes may also be awarded for runners-up.

Each entrant should submit one review, praising or unpraising, between 2000 and 2500 words long, of any work of fiction or poetry published after the beginning of 2009. The review must be original, unpublished work (exceptions will be made for student periodicals).

Entrants must be under the age of 26 at the closing date, 16 June 2010. The first LRB young reviewers competition was won by Sarah Howe in 2008, for her review of Jorie Graham's Sea Change.

Please send submissions, along with contact details, to competition@lrb.co.uk (as an attachment), or by post to:

The Editors,
London Review of Books
28 Little Russell Street
London WC1A 2HN
UK

We regret that we are unable to acknowledge receipt of entries.