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The Kim Scott Walwyn Prize 2012, for female publishers, is launched today (13th January), with prize administrators Booktrust calling for entrants.
The £1,000 prize is given in honour of Kim Scott Walwyn, Oxford University Press publishing director, who died in 2002, and any woman who has worked in publishing in the UK for up to seven years is invited to enter. Submissions are open now until 2nd March.
The prize was won last year by The Bodley Head editor Kay Peddle, and is sponsored by the Society of Young Publishers. Along with £1,000 the winner also receives a two-day training course at the Publishing Training Centre, with a one-day PTC training course also awarded to all shortlisted candidates.
The 2012 shortlist will be announced at the London Book Fair, 16th-18th April, and the winner will be revealed at a ceremony held at the Free Word Centre in London on 9th May.