Publishing professionals can nominate their favorite young editor for the 2012 Ashmead Award. The winner will get a trip to the Yale Publishing Course in July.
Last year’s winner, Whitney Frick, was recently promoted to editor at Simon & Schuster’s Scribner imprint. The annual award was named after veteran editor Lawrence Peel “Larry” Ashmead (pictured) who passed away in September 2010. Applications will be accepted until May 15th.
Selection committee member and HarperCollins senior director of rights Brenda Segel explained: “The purpose behind the Ashmead award is to carry on Larry’s tradition of taking the time to mentor bright young editors and help them develop their careers in publishing. Publishing has long been acknowledged to be an apprenticeship business, and throughout his career, Larry never lost sight of the fact that the assistant answering a phone today is the editorial director of tomorrow, and today many people among two generations of publishing professionals credit Larry Ashmead with mentoring them.”