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Essay competitions for current undergraduates?

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Hi! I'm looking for essay competitions that will accept submissions from current undergraduate students, but it seems that nearly all of the competitions are made for 6th formers. Do such competitions exist? Particularly ones for ancient studies/the humanities generally?

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University departments not infrequently award small prizes for the best essay by an undergraduate in a given year (or sometimes a given subject area/module within that department).

There are also external prizes awarded, it took me maybe a few minutes of googling to find most of these (granted I already knew of the Edinburgh Bibliographic Society one via a friend):

http://www.edinburghbibliographicalsociety.org.uk/prizes/

https://www.asmcf.org/funds-prizes-awards/douglas-johnson-memorial-essay-prize/

https://classicalassociation.org/events/hellenic-society-undergraduate-essay-prize/

https://www.bshm.ac.uk/prizes

https://baas.ac.uk/baas-archive/2016/11/baas-undergraduate-essay-prize/

https://www.sfs.ac.uk/prizes/r-gapper-undergraduate-essay-prize

https://www.germanhistorysociety.org/undergraduate-essay-prize/ (this doesn't seem to have been updated for 2024)

https://www.germanhistorysociety.org/rethinking-german-history/

https://www.designhistorysociety.org/awards/student-awards/essay-prize

https://psaparliaments.org/undergraduate-essay-competition/ (must be nominated/submitted by lecturer)

https://www.bshm.ac.uk/undergraduate-essay-prize

https://www.sportinhistory.org/categories/undergraduate-prize (doesn't appear to have been updated for 2023)

In general you'll probably find more results searching for "undergraduate essay prize" in some format than searching for "essay competitions". You may also want to check major journals and associations/societies in the fields.

You may also want to look at research opportunities for undergraduates available in your department (particularly summer research projects).

Reply 2

OP

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Thank you so much! I didn't think to use the term "prize" instead - that helped a lot :smile:

:smile:

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