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About the Prize
Information about the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction and the Orange Broadband Award for New Writers
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Who runs the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction and the Orange Broadband Award for New Writers?
Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction
The Management Committee, comprised of representatives from the following partners involved in the administration, organisation and promotion of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction and the Orange Broadband Award for New Writers.
Women's Committee
The Women's Committee evolved from the group of women who founded the prize.
Its role includes:
Acting as guardians of the prize (ie. protecting its original intentions and ethos and safe-guarding and promoting its good name)
Suggesting and using their influence to secure access to potential judges
Providing general support to those involved with the Prize.
The current Members of the Women's Committee are:
Kate Mosse
Co-Founder and Honorary Director of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction, Kate is a broadcaster and author. Her most recent novel is Sepulchre, the follow-up to the #1 international bestselling Labyrinth, which has been published in 40 countries and sold more than 2.5 million copies worldwide.
She is a guest presenter of Radio 4's Saturday Review and Open Book.
A Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, she holds Honorary MAs from Oxford University and the University of Chichester, she is on the Board of Arts & Business and the Arts Council of England South East.
She and her husband, Greg Mosse, teach creative writing at West Dean College and are Joint Directors of the Chichester Writing Festival.
www.sepulchre.co.uk
Clare AlexanderFormerly Publishing Director of Viking/Penguin and then editor-in-chief at Macmillan before leaving publishing in 1998 to become a literary agent with Gillon Aitken Associates. Clare is currently president of the Association of Authors' Agents.
Jane Gregory
Set up her literary agency in 1982, went into partnership in 1987 and, following the retirement of her partner at the end of 2000, is now the sole proprietor of Gregory & Company Authors' Agents.
Susan Sandon
Prize co-founder who runs a division of the Random House Group. Susan was the Women's Committee member who originally made contact with Orange.
Carole Welch
Publishing Director of Sceptre, the literary imprint of Hodder & Stoughton.
She is also a Fellow of the RSA.
Julie Wright
Publisher for Pocket Books at Simon & Schuster. Previous to this, Julie was the Trading Controller for Books at WHSmith Travel, and is a former Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction judge.
The following organisations and individuals currently sit on the Management Committee:
Booktrust
Booktrust, the national charity that brings books and people together, handles administration for the prize, and also manages the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction website.
The Reading Agency
The Reading Agency works to inspire a reading nation, by working with libraries and their partners.
The Honorary Director Kate Mosse
The Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction Project Director Harriet Hastings
Harriet has directed the prize's publicity since its inception, and now also manages the Prize. She spent five years working in publishing and the next ten as director of a top 20 UK PR agency, with responsibility for their consumer division. She now works independently as a publicity and marketing consultant.
Anonymous Donor
They have the right to a representative on the Management Committee. Kate Mosse, the Honorary Director, represents the anonymous donor in their absence.
Orange
Orange sponsors the prize and is involved in its organization.
The Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction website editor Lisa Gee
Author of Stage Mum: when showbiz happens to your child (Hutchinson 2008) and Friends: Why Men and Women are from the Same Planet (Bloomsbury 2004), Lisa works as a freelance writer and book reviewer.
