The Alpine Fellowship Academic Writing Prize up to £3,000

The Alpine Fellowship is accepting entries for Academic Writing Prize 2022, that is awarded for the best piece of academic essay writing on the theme of the Alpine Fellowship 2022 - Freedom. What types of freedom are there?

1. Are we political beings whose freedom is actualized together in a world shared with others? 
2. What does it mean to be personally free? Is subjecting personal freedom to obligation necessary and helpful? 
3. Is there a notion of freedom accessible beyond worldly constraints? Can inner freedom be developed by relating to one’s own experience in new ways? 
4. What role does language have in shaping freedom?

The winner and two runners up are invited to attend the symposium. 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.

• Open to all nationalities, aged 18 and above.
• All entries must be written in English.
• A maximum of 4,000 words per entry (including citations and bibliography)
• Academic writing is to be construed broadly, by way of contrast with creative writing, as writing that a) advances and defends an argument on the question and/or that b) makes a systematic and appreciable contribution to knowledge in academic disciplines, concerning the topic of the symposium. Work from different disciplinary (or interdisciplinary) approaches including, but not limited to, philosophy, history, sociology, literary studies, political theory, biology, anthropology, and psychology will be considered.
• A prime consideration will be the ability of the piece to speak in an engaging way to a general intellectual audience.
• Limited to one entry per person, and one may not submit the same piece for the Alpine Fellowship Writing Prize.
• Applicants can enter more than one prize in a single year, but it MUST be with different pieces of work. One piece of work can only be entered once.
• Text 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.
• Entries are judged anonymously so please ensure your name does not appear anywhere on your submission.

About The Alpine Fellowship:

A fellowship for writers, academics, visual artists and playwrights.

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