Eligibility
The Woolf Essay Competition is open to all women students currently in Year 12 (or equivalent), from any country or school. It is designed to give students the opportunity to think and write about women in literature, history, society and culture, while developing their independent study and writing skills.
Through exposure to the type of work they might be expected to do at Cambridge, high flying students will be encouraged to consider applying to the University – and hopefully to Newnham, where women’s history and educational excellence are, of course, central.
This competition may be of particular interest to those studying English Literature, History, Politics, Philosophy or Sociology; but entries from interested students studying any combination of subjects are welcomed.
The deadline for submission is 12pm GMT on Friday 14th July 2023.
Prizes
The Woolf Essay Competition will have book tokens as prizes (£300 for first prize, £200 for second prize, and £100 for third prize, with a small number of highly commended and commended certificates also awarded).
Submission
Entrants are invited to submit a response to any one of the questions given below, which should be between 1,500 and 2,500 words (including footnotes and captions). All sources must be appropriately acknowledged and cited, and a bibliography – including websites consulted – should be attached (though excluded from the word count).
The completed cover sheet must also be submitted. Entries without an appropriately completed cover sheet will be invalid. Entrants should submit their entry to the webform, found here: https://cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5u8ipFriCCKgfAy
The Woolf Essay Competition 2023 Questions
1) “She had to work on equal terms with men. She made, by working very hard, enough to live on. The importance of that fact outweighs anything that she actually wrote, […]”.
Discuss the significance of the struggle for financial independence and equality on the place of women in academia or any other profession, either historical or contemporary.
2) “It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men […] considering the vastness and variety of the world, how should we manage with one [sex] only?”
Using at least two examples, discuss the impact and value of the voices of women and/or gender non-conforming individuals to the literary world.
3) “The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself”.
Analyse the role and responsibility of men in combatting gender inequality in a specific place and historical period.
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