The Dialog, Curtis Brown and Faber are happy to announce our 3 judges for The Dialog Prize for writers 2026.
They’re: historical past professor, Catherine Clarke; innovation professor, Tim Minshall; and our very personal Steven Vass, senior editor for Science Insights at The Dialog.
Our pageant is searching for the most productive longform article and nonfiction ebook thought aimed toward a normal target market from our neighborhood of teachers. On your probability to win £1,000, e-newsletter on The Dialog and mentorship from a literary agent and ebook writer, then input your 2,000-word tale and ebook thought.
The contest will shut on July 5, 2026 at 11.59pm BST.
About our judges
Catherine Clarke.
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Catherine Clarke is professor and director of the Centre for the Historical past of Other folks, Position and Neighborhood on the Institute of Ancient Analysis. She is a cultural historian specialising within the Center Ages, however she additionally works throughout a wide vary of sessions on questions of position, id, heritage and makes use of of the previous.
Her ebook A Historical past of England in 25 Poems was once printed via Penguin Allen Lane in September 2005.
Tim Minshall.
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Tim Minshall is the inaugural Dr John C. Taylor Professor of Innovation on the College of Cambridge, the top of the Engineering Division’s Institute for Production and a fellow of Churchill School. His analysis, educating and outreach are targeted at the hyperlinks between production and innovation. He’s the writer of Your Lifestyles is Manufactured: How We Make Issues, Why It Issues and How We Can Do It Higher, printed via Faber. He lives in Cambridge along with his scientist spouse, Nicola.
Steven Vass.
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Steven Vass is Senior Editor, Science Insights, at The Dialog UK and prior to that was once Scotland Editor and Senior Trade and Economic system Editor. He was once up to now a reporter for the Sunday Bring in and The Bring in, in addition to having spent a number of years as a building volunteer in Zambia and a number of other extra as a media analyst in London. He’s the writer of Let the Track Play, printed via Pace, about how synths and drum machines modified 70s and 80s R&B.
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The contest will shut on Sunday fifth July at 11.59pm BST.
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Your ebook thought [max 350 words] Please supply a short lived abstract of a business nonfiction ebook thought according to your article. Let us know why this subject merits a deeper dive and why it might enchantment to an target market of non-academic readers.
About you [max 100 words] Let us know a little bit about you – your present position, your house of experience and any related analysis in your ebook thought. Why would you be the proper writer for this ebook?
Please reveal any conflicts of pastime that are supposed to be discussed relating to your article or ebook thought.
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