Given that it conveys a significant cash prize to the entrant deemed best to advanced the principles of liberty and defended free society in his writing, I thought I would advertise the Bastiat Prize.
This is a prestigious prize with high-profile judges which aims to reward writers who work to defend liberty. There's $15,000 to be won, plus trips to New York for the awards dinner. Deadline for submissions is June 30th.
Full details and online entry forms are at www.bastiatprize.org, but:
The Prize is open to writers anywhere in the world whose published articles eloquently and wittily explain, promote and defend the principles of the free society, including property rights, free markets, sound science, limited government and the rule of law. Bastiat Prize entries are judged on the intellectual content of each article, the wit, eloquence and persuasiveness of the language used, the type of publication in which it appeared and the location of the author.
Previous judges have included Lady Thatcher, James Buchanan and Milton Friedman. This year's panel includes the former British Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord Lawson of Blaby, and Amity Shlaes, syndicated Bloomberg columnist, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a previous Bastiat Prize winner.
Submissions – in English – will be accepted from 1 April until 30 June 2008. (Postal entries must be postmarked 30 June or before). Submissions must be in the form of up to three articles totalling no more than 4,500 words, published between 1 July 2007 and 30 June 2008 in recognized news publications. Finalists will be invited to a ceremony in New York in October 2008, where winners will be announced.
