Women journalists are being invited to compete for a £1,000 prize in the annual Sunday Telegraph Catherine Pakenham Award.

The contest is open to women aged between 18 and 25 years who are resident in the UK.

The article submitted for the award must be original.

Entrants are asked to submit a non-fiction article of between 750 and 2,000 words long.

The winner of the award will receive £1,000, plus the chance to write for one of the Telegraph publications. Three runners-up will each receive £200.

The judges this year include Sunday Telegraph editor Dominic Lawson, and the novelist, journalist and sister of Catherine Pakenham, Rachel Billington.

The award, sponsored by The Sunday Telegraph, was established in 1970 in memory of Lord and Lady Longford’s daughter who died in a car crash at the age of 23 when working for the Telegraph Magazine.

Previous winners of the award have included Polly Toynbee, the Guardian columnist and Tina Brown, editor-in-chief of Talk magazine, The New Yorker and Vanity Fair.

For further information on this year’s awards, contact Emma Gilbert-Harris in corporate affairs at

The Sunday Telegraph, 1 Canada Square, London, E14 5DT. Her e-mail address is [email protected].

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