Upcoming Competitions 2024-2025
University of Oxford Tower Poetry Competition
https://www.chch.ox.ac.uk/tower-poetry/enter-tower-poetry-competition
The 25th Christopher Tower Poetry Competition will open for entries in October 2024 and run until February 2025, with students between 16-18 years of age challenged to write a poem on a given theme. The Tower Poetry Competition offers the UK’s most valuable prize for young poets. The competition is free to enter and it is open to students between 16-18 years of age who are educated in the UK.
The competition is judged anonymously by two guest judges, who are different each year, and the Christopher Tower Student. Each year the theme is chosen with the intention of giving entrants free rein to interpret it as widely as they like.
The Christopher Tower Poetry Prizes recently reached new heights with a newly increased first prize and a full set of awards worth more than £14000.
This year, the poet who writes the best single poem on the theme receives £5000. There will be a second prize of £3000, and a third prize of £1500. Along with these, there will be ten runners up, who will each receive £500.
The History of Totalitariamism essay competition
The Foundation for the History of Totalitarianism’s annual essay competition for students in Years 12 and 13 is now open! The subject of the 2024 - 2025 competition is ‘Jung Chang and the Cultural Revolution’. Jung Chang’s book, Wild Swans, was an international sensation when it was published and has sold more than 13 million copies worldwide. Jung Chang herself will be presenting the prizes at the awards ceremony in London next year. The deadline is 26th January 2025.
Details about the competition can be found here: https://historyoftotalitarianism.com/essay-competitions/.
Royal Academy of Arts
Artists are at the heart of everything we do at the Royal Academy of Arts — we believe in nurturing and celebrating the next generation of artists. Taking inspiration from the Summer Exhibition, the Young Artists’ Summer Show is a free, open submission exhibition for young artists aged 4–19 years studying in the UK. The project is generously supported by Robin Hambro, a passionate advocate for the importance of access to art, and the benefits of encouraging the arts, for children and young people.
To take part, students can submit any artwork of their choice and to enter students must give their work to a member of The Art Department in the window of January – February of March 2025 for the submission window. The work will be submitted by the department through The Heathland School registry. These artworks are then judged by a panel of artists and arts professionals with selected artworks displayed online and on-site at the Royal Academy of Arts.
