***The deadline for the Annual Student Essay Prize has been extended to 27th January 2014***
The FWSA is delighted to announce that we are now accepting submissions for our 10th anniversary student essay competition. To encourage a new generation of feminist scholars, the FWSA sponsors an annual student essay competition for work which is innovative, interdisciplinary and grounded in feminist theory and practice. The top seven entries will be judged by our anniversary judging panel and will be published in the Journal of International Women’s Studies. In addition, the winner will receive a year’s free FWSA membership and a publisher’s prize.
Anniversary Student Essay Prize Poster
The theme for the competition is ‘New Directions in Feminist Studies- Activisms, Emotions, Intersectionality’.
Our anniversary judging panel:
Professor Mary Evans
LSE
Professor Christina Hughes
University of Warwick
Professor Diana Negra
University College Dublin
Professor Imelda Whelehan
University of Tasmania
Students at any stage of their studies at a British or Irish university are encouraged to submit work that has not been previously published and is not currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. Essays can be on this general theme or can focus on a sub-theme e.g. Activisms. Entries should be 7,000 words (including footnotes and bibliography), must be submitted electronically and including a completed competition coversheet. The deadline for this year’s competition is 27th January 2014. The winning entries will be announced in Summer 2014.
Please download the coversheet here
Read the previous winning essays from FWSA Student Essay Competition in the Journal of International Women’s Studies online
Please submit the essays electronically to administrator@fwsa.org.uk
We look forward to receiving your entries!
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I wonder sadly why students from other countries cannot submit their papers.
Hi Zahra,
It is only open to those who are registered at institutions in the UK and Ireland at this time as we are funded (for the most part) by UK and Ireland fees. However, it’s not restricted to those with British and Irish passports. Therefore international students can enter.
I am from New Zealand – am I eligible to enter?
Unfortunately, at this point you are only ably to enter if you are registered to a university in the UK or Ireland. If this is the case then it doesn’t matter what nationality you are
Hello,
When will the entries be available to read? Will they be open access? I’d love to read the journal issue they’ll appear in but I don’t have institutional access to journals.
Thanks.
Hi,
We are currently working on the journal. Watch this space for further details.
Many thanks for your interest
When will details for the next competition be announced?
Hi,
Very, very shortly. We’re just finalising things and as soon as we’ve sorted that we will release the date- so please watch this space
Best wishes