Entries open for the Alan Lodge International Young Spirits Writer of the Year award

Entries are now open for the 2013 Alan Lodge International Young Spirits Writer of the Year award.

This is the second year of the award, which was launched last year in memory of the former Spirits Business deputy editor and drinks business web editor, who sadly died in 2012.

The Alan Lodge award aims to recognise the talent and skill of those writers and journalists dedicating their work to the spirits industry.

The inaugural Alan Lodge award was won by Hamish Smith, deputy editor of Drinks International, who said: “The award’s development, of which I am now proudly a part, will rightly preserve Alan’s name for posterity, giving longevity to our fond memories. Knowing Alan as I did, he would have smiled at the thought of an award in his name.”

The award is adjudicated by an independent panel of judges and this year’s winner will be announced at The Spirits Masters Lunch in December.

Entrants must be aged 35 or under as of 30 September 2013 – the same day as the deadline for entries – and may submit up to four pieces of work each that have been published between September 2012 and September 2013 in the English language.

Entries must be submitted as word documents to info@thespiritsbusiness.com with the subject headed ‘Alan Lodge International Young Spirits Writer of the Year Award 2013’. All entries will be scored out of 10 for content and style. For more information about the award email daisy@thespiritsbusiness.com

As well as being named the 2013 Alan Lodge International Young Spirits Writer of the Year, the winner will also be given an all-expenses-paid trip to the Ardbeg Distillery on Islay – home of Alan’s favourite Scotch.