William Hazlitt Essay Prize 2013: The Winners by Notting Hill Editions

In May 2013, Notting Hill Editions announced an annual literary prize for the best essay in the English language, open to anyone in the world, of between 2,000 and 8,000 words, published or unpublished, on any subject. The award is named in honour of William Hazlitt (1778-1830), great master of the miscellaneous essay.

Authors of any nationality were eligible, but submissions must have been written originally in English. If already published, the essay must have appeared for the first time in periodical (print or online) rather than book form, between 1 January 2012 and 31 July 2013.

The first prize was awarded to Michael Ignatieff for Raphael Lemkin and Genocide. 

The runners up were:

Andrew O’Hagan – Light Entertainment
J T Barbarese – Politics 2013
Belle Boggs – The Art of Winning
Leslie Jamison – The Empathy Exams
Sameer Rahim – The Shadow of the Scroll: Reconstructing Islam’s Origins