Science writers of the future have until March 31 to submit their entries to this year’s Plus Magazine New Writers award. The award winning magazine is looking for those who can make mathematics lively and interesting for a general audience.

Entries can be about any mathematical idea or concept, an application of maths, an historical topic, the story of a mathematician or a mathematical controversy. Winners will join Plus’s acclaimed list of authors, including physicist Stephen Hawking, mathematician and writer Marcus du Sautoy, and NASA astronaut Michael Foale.

Dr Mariane Freiberger, editor of Plus online magazine, said: "The Plus New Writers Award is a great opportunity for aspiring writers and mathematicians to share their passion with a large international audience. One of our previous winners went on to write for New Scientist, and is now combining writing and media work with a successful research career."

Last year’s winning articles ranged from solving Fermat’s last theorem to using game theory to increase pulling power.

Plus magazine is published free of charge online, and provides a window in to the world of maths aimed at the general public. The articles show maths in all its beauty and applications, and cover fields as diverse as art, medicine, cosmology and sport.

The winning entries will be read to an audience of over a hundred thousand in the June 2009 issue of Plus. For more information about the competition visit the Plus site (see sidebar).
 

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