The Alpine Fellowship Writing Prize

Awarded for the best piece of writing on the theme of ‘Language’.

Prizes:

The winner of the Writing Prize will receive a cash prize, and the runners up will receive travel expense support that must be used to attend our 2025 symposium – dates and venue to be announced.

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.
Applicants can only enter one of our prizes.
Limited to one entry per person.
Submissions must be standalone and cannot be extracts from a larger piece.
A maximum of 2,500 words per entry.
Stories must not have been published, 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 accomodation 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 judges decisions are final and no correspondence will be entered into following the results.