PRIZES OF £500

Korero (AEWS), Volume 2, Issue 1, 17 January 1944, Page 12

PRIZES OF £SOO

Literary Competitions for the Services

To celebrate one hundred years of 1 publishing, Macmillan and Co., Ltd., London, publishers, are offering special Macmillan Centenary Awards for men and women in the armed forces of the British Empire and the United States of America. Each of the principal awards will be £s°° payable to any British-born man or woman between the ages of nineteen and thirty-five serving in any branch of the armed or auxiliary forces of the British Empire, or a similar award of 2,500 dollars to any American citizen between nineteen and thirty-five serving in the American armed forces. One /500 prize will be for the best novel, and other ZSOO prizes will be for the best book of biography, for the best book of autobiography, for the best book of essays, and for the best book of belles-lettres.

In addition to these special awards a number of smaller awards totalling or 5,000 dollars, will be made for other manuscripts or publishing proposals at the discretion of the publishers. All the awards are outright payments and are in addition to the usual royalty payments to authors.

Manuscripts do not necessarily have to be complete. A partial manuscript may be sent in with a synopsis of the rest.

Entries from New Zealand servicemen and servicewomen stationed in New Zealand or the Pacific may be sent to DAEWS, Army H.Q., Wellington, with the coverings clearly marked “ Macmillan’s Literary Competition.” They will then be sent forward. The closing date is December 31, 1944. All entries must be in the offices of Macmillan’s by then, so the closing date in Wellington will be considerably earlier. A definite date will be advised later.