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The prize is an international award created to discover and promote new contemporary art critics; in order to enter the competition, a writer can have had no more than three article published in any national or international publication. Past winners have gone on to write regularly for the London-based magazine; Gass, who was recognized for his "lively engagement with complex ideas," will write his first review for the October issue.

Gass also received £2,000 ($3,800), while runners up Graham T. Beck and Conor Carville each received £500, and Kate Forde, Tyler Friedman, Clay Lerner, J. MacNeill Miller, Chris Moore, and Marianne Templeton have been "highly commended."

The judges included Tate Triennial curator Nicolas Bourriaud, frieze co-editor Jennifer Higgie, and Guardian art critic Adrian Searle.

Gass is currently a curatorial intern at the Contemporary Museum St. Louis and lives in that Midwestern city, as does another William Gass, the well-known novelist, short story writer, and critic.