Deadline: 1 April 2025
Applicants are now invited to submit applications for Alpine Fellowship Writing Prize.
Theme
- Awarded for the best piece of writing on the theme of Fear.
Funding Information
- The winner and runners-up will receive financial support in the following amounts:
- First place: £3,000
- Second place: £1,000
- Third place: £1,000
Eligibility Criteria
- 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.
- You can enter multiple prizes.
Application Requirements
- A maximum of 1,250 words per entry (Please note: The word count has been reduced in 2025, so previous years winners word counts are higher).
- Submissions must be standalone and cannot be extracted from a larger piece.
- 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.
- 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.
- The use of generative writing programmes or artificial intelligence (for example, ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude) is strictly prohibited.
For more information, visit Alpine Fellowship Foundation.
