Entries open for 2013 Alan Lodge Young Spirits Writer of the Year

The search is once again on to find the world’s most promising young spirits writers, as entries are now being taken for the 2013 Alan Lodge International Young Spirits Writer of the Year award.

Hamish Smith (far left) receives the inaugural Alan Lodge Young Writers Award from Daisy Jones, Margaret Lodge and Colin Lodge

First launched last year in memory of the former Spirits Business deputy editor who sadly died in 2012, the Alan

Lodge award seeks to recognise the talent and skill of those writers and journalists dedicating their work to the

spirits industry.

Although run by The Spirits Business, the Alan Lodge award is adjudicated by an independent panel of judges, making the process entirely impartial.

This year’s winner will be announced at The Spirits Masters Lunch in December, and will be awarded with an all-expensespaid trip to the Ardbeg Distillery on Islay – home of Alan’s favourite Scotch.

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 must have been published between September 2012 and September 2013 and written 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.

The inaugural Alan Lodge award winner Hamish Smith, deputy editor of Drinks International, 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.”