FWSA is delighted to announce that we are now accepting submissions for the 2019 Student Essay Competition (deadline Monday 27 May 2019)
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 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.
Student’s 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, or for competitions which result in publication, elsewhere. Essays should be 6,000-7,000 words (including footnotes and bibliography), must be submitted electronically, include a completed competition coversheet and adhere to the submission instructions (see below).
Submission Instructions:
1 – Attach a cover sheet to your submission (downloadable here Cover sheet 2019)
2 – You must submit the coversheet and essay in a combined word file (PDFs and other formats will not be accepted).
3 – Please use your surname as the file name (e.g. ‘ROWELL’).
4 – Please anonymise your manuscript. To anonymise your essay, please remove all details that may reveal your identity within the body of the essay, by doing the following:
- Remove all occurrences of author name(s) and institution(s) from the essay
- Remove anything that can identify you as a co-author or editor of other works from the essay
- Replace author references in text by referring to yourselves as ‘Author A’, ‘Author B’ etc within the essay
4 – Submit the essays through email, as a word attachment (adhering to all of the above) to fwsachair@gmail.com.
Please note that entries that do not adhere to the above will not be considered.
Deadline: The deadline for this year’s competition is Monday 27 May 2019.
We look forward to receiving your entries!
The previous winning essays from the FWSA Student Essay Competition can be read online in the Journal of International Women’s Studies:
Volume 20, Issue 4 (2019) New Writings in Feminist and Women’s Studies Winning and Short-listed Entries from the 2018 Feminist and Women’s Studies Association’s (FWSA) Annual Student Essay Competition
Volume 19, Issue 1 (2018) New Writings in Feminist Studies: Winning and Shortlisted Entries from the 2017 Feminist and Women’s Studies Association’s Annual Student Essay Competition
Volume 18, Issue 3 (2017) New Writings in Feminist Studies: Winning and Shortlisted Entries from the 2016 Feminist and Women’s Studies Association’s Annual Student Essay Competition
Volume 17, Issue 2 (2016) New Writings in Feminist Studies: Winning and Shortlisted Entries from the 2015 FWSA Student Essay Competition
Volume 16, Issue 1 (2014) The 10th Anniversary of the FWSA Essay Competition: New Directions in Feminist Studies – Emotions, Activisms, Intersectionality
Volume 14, Issue 4 (2013) New Writings in Feminist and Women’s Studies: Winning and Short-listed Entries from the 2012 Feminist and Women’s Studies Association’s Annual Student Essay Competition
Volume 13, Issue 2 (2012) Winning and Short-listed Entries from the 2010 Feminist and Women’s Studies Association Annual Student Essay Competition
Volume 12, Issue 2 (2011) Winning and Short-listed Entries from the 2009 Feminist and Women’s Studies Association Annual Student Essay Competition
Volume 11, Issue 3 (2009) Winning and Short-listed Entries from the 2007 Feminist and Women’s Studies Association Annual Student Essay Competition
Volume 10, Issue 3 (2009) Feminist and Woman’s Studies Association Annual Student Essay Competition
Volume 9, Issue 2 (2008) Politics, Sexualities, and New Feminist Scholarship: Winning and short-listed entries for the 2006 Feminist and Women’s Studies Association Annual Student Essay Competition
Volume 8, Issue 2 (2007) Identity, Difference and New Feminisms: Winning and Short-listed entries for the 2005 Feminist and Women’s Studies Association, U.K. Annual Essay Competition
Volume 7, Issue 3 (2006) New British Feminist Scholarship and Contemporary Politics: Prizewinning and Short-listed Essays from the Feminist and Women’s Studies Association (UK and Ireland) Essay Competition
Volume 6, Issue 3 (2005) Winning and Short-listed Essays from the Second Annual Essay Competition of the Feminist and Women’s Studies Association (UK and Ireland) (FWSA)
Volume 5, Issue 2 (2004) New Writings in Women’s Studies: Selected Essays from the First Women’s Studies Network (U.K.) Association Essay Contest