The Alpine Fellowship is offering prizes to writers, thinkers and theatre and visual artists awarded to best work concerning the theme of the 2023 Alpine Fellowship Annual Symposium in Fjällnäs.
The Alpine Fellowship is a group of writers, thinkers and artists who are passionate about learning and communicating with a view to better understanding themselves and others. They value a capacity for openness – being engaged in critically reflecting on firmly held beliefs; the courage to be vulnerable – speaking from a place of lived experience; the drive for curiosity – being truly able to receive and listen to others.
They think it important to support young people today who may have become somewhat disillusioned by the reality of modern-day education. They care about discovering what an alternative model of education might look like. Hence the spirit of the enterprise is necessarily open-ended, and they welcome and seek the support, contribution and presence of anyone who relates to what they care about.
The Prizes are in four categories:
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 2023 symposium which will be held from 10th-13th August 2023 in Fjällnäs, Sweden
- First place: £3,000 cash grant
- Second place: £1,000 travel expense
- Third place: £1,000 travel expense
Worth of Award
- Writing: The winner and two runners-up are invited to attend the Fjällnäs symposium. The winner receives £10,000 cash prize and is presented with the award by the poet John Burnside. £3000, go to second place, £2000 to the third place.
- Visual Arts: The winner and two runners up are invited to attend the Fjällnäs symposium. The winner receives £2000 and a further £1000 towards shipping and installing the winning piece.
- Theatre: The prize will be £3000 plus a rehearsed reading at the Fellowship’s annual Symposium.
- Academic Writing: The winner and two runners up are invited to attend the symposium. The winner receives £3,000 cash prize and is invited to attend the symposium. Runners-up are invited to attend the symposium and offered reimbursement of travel expenses up to £500.
Eligibility
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All genres of writing are permitted, including fiction, non-fiction and non-academic essays.
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Open to all nationalities.
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Applicants must be aged 18 or above at the time of entry.
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All entries must be written in English.
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Applicants can only enter one of our prizes.
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Limited to one entry per person.
How to Apply
The application is online through their website.
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Submissions must be standalone and cannot be extracted from a larger piece.
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A maximum of 2,500 words per entry.
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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.
Deadline: Applications close on March 1, 2023.