Submission of entries

The Trustees of the Boardman Tasker Charitable Trust invite publishers to make submissions for the 2008 Boardman Tasker Prize.

Books with mountain,not necessarily mountaineering, theme whether fiction, non-fiction, drama or poetry, written in the English language (initially or in translation)will be eligible. The entry must be in book format, and not in the format of a magazine or other periodical or anthology.

The Prize will be awarded for a work published or distributed in the United Kingdom for the first time between 1 November 2007 and 31 October 2008.

The chair of the judges for 2008 is Tim Noble who has spent the last forty years climbing and mountaineering around the world. A teacher of English in schools and colleges for 35 years, he is a published poet and has written numerous plays for pupils. For the last ten years has been editor of The Climbers’ Club Journal.

The other members of the panel are Alison Fell, author of seven novels and four poetry collections, of which her first, Kisses for Mayakovsky, won the Alice Hunt Bartlett Award, and is currently Royal Literary Fellow at the Courtauld Institute; and Phil Barlett who has climbed in the remoter areas of every continent and his book The Undiscovered Country was shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Prize in 1993.

Books should be submitted as soon as they are available, but by 18 August 2008 at the latest. Publishers are invited to send four copies of each book entered (or page-proofs if necessary) with an entry form for each title. No restriction is made on the number of entries each publisher may make.

Download Rules and Entry Form

Details of Judges for 2008