The Virginia Prize
In 2009, The Virginia Prize will be sponsored by ea Consulting Group
, a company based in Twickenham which provides Management Consulting Services, primarily to the financial services sector and is in the ‘top 100 fastest-growing companies in the UK’ according to Virgin/ The Sunday Times Fast Track.THE VIRGINIA PRIZE FOR FICTION
To celebrate 20 years of success as a small independent publishing house based in Richmond-upon-Thames, Aurora Metro has launched a new competition to encourage and promote new writing by women.
Virginia Woolf completed and published her first novel The Voyage Out while living in Paradise Road in Richmond where she and her husband Leonard also founded the Hogarth Press in 1917. By naming this prize in Virginia Woolf’s memory, we’d like
to celebrate her significant literary contribution
and her inspiration to young writers.
The Prize is open to any woman over 18 who has written an unpublished novel in English. The shortlist will be compiled in October 2009 and the £1000 prize will be awarded in November as part of Richmond’s Book Now! Literary Festival. The winning entry will be published by Aurora Metro Press in the following year. Closing date for entries 15th September 2009
Portrait of Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
by George Charles Beresford (public domain)
