The Alpine Fellowship Writing Prize 2024
APPLICATIONS ARE CLOSED.
Awarded for the best piece of writing on the theme of ‘Language’.
Prizes:
The winner and runners-up will receive cash prizes and will be invited to attend our annual symposium. We will offer up to £500 travel expenses to help with travel to the event and meals and accommodation during the symposium dates are also covered.
The symposium will take place from Sat 6th - Tue 9th July 2024 in Tuscany, Italy.
First place: £3,000
Second place: £1,000
Third place: £1,000
Rules:
All genres of writing are permitted, including fiction, non-fiction, and non-academic essays.
Open to all nationalities.
Applicants must be aged 18 or above at the time of entry.
All entries must be written in English.
Limited to one entry per person.
Submissions must be standalone and cannot be extracted from a larger piece.
A maximum of 2,500 words per entry.
Stories must not have been published (not including self-published), or accepted for publication in print or online, or have won or been placed in another competition at any time.
Travel expenses can be used for economy travel costs only and are not exchangeable for cash, any leftover travel budget will not be redeemed as cash.
Travel expenses can be used for transport only, and can not be used towards accommodation outside of the dates of our symposium.
Submissions will be judged anonymously, so please ensure that your name does not appear anywhere on your work.
Due to the volume of applications, the judge’s decisions are final and no correspondence will be entered into following the results.
Key dates:
Applications open: 1st January 2024
Applications close: 1st March 2024 at 23:59 (UK time)
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*Please note: we reserve the right to change any aspect of our prizes at any point during the submission or judging process or to not award a prize if we choose.
Alpine Fellowship Writing Prize 2023
2023 - On Flourishing
Winners (joint): Judith O’Reilly and Laura Theis
Runners up: Zaqary Fekete and Pooja Poudel
To read the winning stories, please click the links below:
Previous winners
2022 - On Freedom
Winners (joint): Allan Gaw and Matthew Beven
Honourable Mentions: Ke Shuan Chow, Harry Hext, Tabitha Potts and Susannah Rickards
2021 - Untamed: On Civilisation and Wilderness
Winner: A.J. Bermudez
Second Place: Comfrey Sanders
Third Place: Kerry Andrew
2020 - On Forgiveness and Retribution
Winner: N.G.F. Clarke
Second Place: Maya C. Popa
Third Place: Emma Venables
2019 - Identity
Winner: Ashani Lewis
Second Place: Putul Verma
Third Place: Caroline Zarlengo Sposto
2018 - Childhood
Winner: Mo Ogrodnik
Second Place: Francesco Lo Basso
Third Place: Krystal Song