PRIZE: Postgraduate Essay Prize in Postcolonial Studies

Prize Competition

Theme: Postcolonial Studies

Type: 6th Annual Postgraduate Essay Prize 2015

Institution: Postcolonial Studies Association (PSA)

Journal of Postcolonial Writing

Deadline: 1.4.2015

The Postcolonial Studies Association (UK) and the Journal of Postcolonial Writing are pleased to announce the 6th consecutive running of their Postgraduate Essay Competition. This is an excellent opportunity for budding scholars in the field of postcolonial studies to showcase their work in a world-leading journal. Whether you work on cultural studies, literature, film, politics, sociology, history, or any other discipline in the humanities and social sciences, if your work contributes in significant and innovative ways to the evolving field of postcolonial studies, then please consider submitting an essay to the competition.

All entries are anonymously read by members of our judging panel, who are all postcolonial experts from various HE institutions. The winning essay, subject to editorial approval, will then be published by the Journal of Postcolonial Writing. Apart from having your work published in a respected postcolonial journal, you would also win £250, as well as complimentary membership of the PSA, if you are not already a member. The runner-up also gets considerable mention in the Chair’s announcement to all our members.

Key dates:

1 November 2014: submissions open

1 April 2015: submission deadline

1 July 2015: announcement of winner and runner-up

For instructions, please see the PSA’s website:

postcolonialstudiesassociation.co.uk

For a submission form, to be sent together with your submission,

please email: psajpw@postcolonialstudiesassociation.co.uk