21 September 2005
Do you communicate about beer? Would you like to win £1,000

This years Beer Writer of the Year competition have got even better as Cains would like to offer the winner of The Cains Finest Lager Award for Regional Journalism a weekend for two in a top Liverpool hotel in addition to a prize of £1,000.

The British Guild of Beer Writers is giving writers, broadcasters, photographers, poets illustrators, designers and webmasters the chance to enter their work in five different categories, with one of the category winners to be named as the British Guild of Beer Writers' Beer Writer of the Year.
Nominations and entries are being sort for five categories.
· The Artois Bock Award for National Journalism - includes the national press, consumer magazines, national television and radio and internet, web pages and other electronic media. First prize of £1000 and a runner-up will receive a runner-up award of £500 in prize money. Sponsored by InBev.
· The Cains Finest Lager Award for Regional Journalism – for the very best regional beer writing or broadcasting - includes local and regional newspapers, radio and television, CAMRA newsletters and books published regionally. First prize of £1000 and a weekend for two in a top Liverpool hotel and a runner-up will receive an award of £500 in prize money. Sponsored by Cains.
· The Bishops Finger Beer with Food Award for Beer and Food Writing - the piece can be written or broadcast in national, local or regional media, it could be in a trade magazine or a company publication, on the internet or part of a video. The objective is to encourage journalists to write or broadcast material on the subject of matching beer with food a subject area formerly dominated by wine. There is a first prize of £1,000 and a weekend break at a Shepherd Neame pub hotel for the winner and his/her partner. Sponsored by Shepherd Neame.
· The Budvar Travel Bursary - for the best article or book published in English on overseas beer matters - with a prize of £1,000 plus a trip to the brewery in the Czech Republic .
· The Trade and Technical Journalism Award - for the very best writing in trade and company newspapers, newsletters, magazines and web sites. First prize of £1000.
To enter the competition send four copies of each entry, published or broadcast in the 12 months up to 30 September 2005 - stating where it has been published - by 7 October to Beer Writers Competition, c/o Morrice Partnership Ltd, IT Centre, York Science Park, Heslington, York YO10 5DG.
Entrants are asked to nominate which category they would like their work to be entered into but the judges reserve the right to consider work for other categories.
Entrants do not have to be members the of British Guild of Beer Writers – they just have to communicate about beer or beer culture, new products or the ingredients and brewing of beer.There is no limitation on the number of categories that an individual may enter.
Website entries, send web address only. Entries can only be returned if accompanied with a self-addressed, stamped envelope or packaging.
For more information on the British Guild of Beer Writers Awards contact Tim Hampson – Tel: 07768 614283 Email tim@infopub.co.uk.