Young Writer T&Cs

Updated October 2024

Registration and Applications

1. Applicants to the Young Writer Prizes must be aged 16–18 at the time of the competition submission deadline.
2. Applicants must be enrolled in a sixth-form or further education college and be studying on a full-time or part-time basis at the time of the submission deadline.
3. Applicants must be registered in order to submit their entry. Registration will be open until the submission deadline but submissions received by applicants that have not registered will not be accepted.
4. Applicants must be from the UK, or otherwise qualify as a ‘home’ student for fees purposes, according to UKCISA.
5. Submissions:
• Submissions must be received no later than 11.59pm (BST) on the submission deadline. Submissions received after the deadline will not be considered.
• Submissions must be below or exactly on the stated word count (1,000 words). Submissions that exceed the word count will not be eligible.
• All given instructions should be followed. Any entries judged by the judging panel to not have met any of the given criteria will not be eligible.
• The judges’ decision is final.
• Work submitted must be original and not plagiarised from any existing body of work, professional or otherwise. AI text-generation tools may not be used.
• All submitted work must be written solely by the applicant.
• Applicants are eligible to submit entries for multiple Young Writer Competitions. Applicants will only be eligible to be shortlisted in one of the competitions. In the event of an applicant being shortlisted in more than one competition, the relevant judging panels will meet and decide which competition the applicant will be shortlisted in.
• We will only accept one entry per-applicant, per-competition. Applicants will be allowed to submit one updated version of each submission, as long as this is received before the deadline. This will then be accepted as the final entry.

 Prizes

1. To receive an award, students must meet all of the application and submission criteria above. Goldsmiths reserves the right to ask for proof so as to satisfy the above terms and conditions, prior to awarding any prizes.
2. All prizes are non-transferable.
3. Any financial prizes will be paid directly into the winning applicant’s bank account.
4. All winners are expected to attend the prize-giving event. This is a condition of the competitions and winners will only be excused in exceptional circumstances.
5. Goldsmiths reserves the sole right to determine what constitutes an exceptional circumstance for the purposes of section 3 (d).