BJUP Essay Contest

The BJUP essay contest has been set up in order to provide an extra forum in which undergraduates may excel, to celebrate the role of undergraduates in academic philosophy and to encourage the brightest of budding philosophers. For those aspiring to an academic career, this should be incentive enough to enter, although there is money to be won, as well as reputation. Authors successful in the competition may be offered publication in the British Journal of Undergraduate Philosophy, as well as the opportunity to speak at one of our events.

Contest Format

Essays may be of no more than 4,000 words.

Authors may choose their own title so long as their essay relates to one or more of the following topics:
Mind
Language
Truth
Knowledge

Entrance

Essays should be handled using the journal’s usual policy for ensuring anonymous reviewing. (Essays should be emailed to contest@bups.org in a word document that does not contain the author’s name. A separate document should be given with the essay title and word length and author’s name, so that we can re-match essays to authors after reviewing.)

The closing date on submissions will be Friday 18th May at noon. Authors will be informed of the competition panel's decision within four weeks.

Only one piece of work per author may be submitted. For this reason, and to regulate the volume of submissions, we unfortunately can only accept submissions from authors currently enrolled in a UK higher-education institution. Members of the BUPS Committee are excluded from the competition.

Judging will be handled by our team of professional academics, who act as reviewers on a voluntary basis.

Sponsorship and Prizes

First Prize:          £200 and a year’s subscription to The Philosopher’s Magazine
Second Prize:      £50 and £50 in book tokens
Third Prize:         £30 in book tokens and a year's subscription to the BJUP

This has been made possible by The Royal Institute of Philosophy, The Philosopher's Magazine and Edinburgh University Press.



      

For further information or enquiries, please contact info@bups.org.