The Financial Times and McKinsey & Company, organisers of the Business Book of the Year Award, want to encourage young authors to tackle emerging business themes. They hope to unearth new talent and encourage writers to research ideas that could fill future business books of the year. A prize of £15,000 will be given for the best book proposal.
This prize honours their legacy but also opens a new chapter by encouraging young writers and researchers to identify and analyse the business trends of the future.
The prize will be awarded to the best proposal for a book about the challenges and opportunities of growth. The main theme of the proposed work should be forward-looking. In the spirit of the Business book of the year, the proposed book should aim to provide a compelling and enjoyable insight into future trends in business, economics, finance or management. The judges will favour authors who write with knowledge, creativity, originality and style and whose proposed books promise to break new ground, or examine pressing business challenges in original ways.
Eligibility
- Article must not be longer than 5000 words
- Article should be a description of the finished work’s structure
for example: a list of chapter headings with a short bullet-point description of each chapter
- Article must tackle emerging business themes
- Article must identify and analyse the trends of the future in business, economics, finance or management
- Article must focus on the challenges and opportunities of growth
- Article must examine pressing business challenges in original ways
- Author must be under 35 on November 17 2015
- Author can be a published author
- The proposal itself must be original, not previously submitted to a publisher
- Author submit a biography
- Co-authored submissions are welcomed
Worth
- A prize of £15,000 will be given for the best book proposal.
Deadline: September 30, 2015
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