Our 2015 competition is now accepting submissions for the following categories:
- Short Story
- Poetry
To enter your work, please carefully read the following Terms and Conditions before clicking here to submit your work click here.
The competition will close on 31st July 2015.
Terms and Conditions
Eligibility
- All entries must be written in English and be the author’s original and unaided work. Submissions must not infringe any copyright or contain defamatory or otherwise unlawful matter.
- All entrants must be aged 5 – 16. Please ensure you submit your work in the correct Key Stage category.
- All entrants must be a permanent resident in the United Kingdom.
- Entries submitted in previous Young Muslim Writers Awards competitions will not be accepted.
- Short Story: your story must not be more than 8,000 words. You can only submit one story.
- Poetry: You can submit up to 3 poems. Please place all poems in one Microsoft Word document, with each poem clearly labelled with the title.
- The closing date for the competition is midnight on the 31st July 2015. Submissions will not be accepted after the closing date.
Submission Process
- All entries must be submitted through Submittable.com and all required fields must be completed.
- All entries should be typed in Times New Roman, font size 11, in a Microsoft Word document with all pages numbered. Please ensure the title of the entry is included in the ‘Header’ of each page, and that your name is not included in the document.
- Schools: Please create one account for the staff members submitting the work. All entries should be entered through this one account, with the author’s name and age clearly written in the submission form.
- Submissions do not need to be centred on topics of Islam or Muslim identity, however these are equally welcome.
Selection Process
Judging for the Young Muslim Writers Awards will be as follows:
Stage 1: A team of readers will read all submissions and select the top entries, comprising the shortlist.
Stage 2: The shortlisted entries will be assessed the judging panels which will assess the entries, giving each a score.
Stage 3: Shortlisted entrants will be invited to awards ceremony to be held in London in Autumn 2015, where the winners will be announced. Updates will be posted closer to the time.
The decisions of the judging panel are final and binding, and Young Muslim Writers Awards will not enter into correspondence or negotiation regarding the results.
Details of winners will be made available on the YoungMuslim Writers Awards website after the Awards ceremony.
Publicity
Each shortlisted writer will agree to take part in publicity for the promotion of the Awards which will include – but is not restricted to – his/her name and photograph being used. Writers will not receive payment for this.
Winners will retain the copyright to their work but grant Young Muslim Writers Awards the right to publish their work in the anthology and excerpts on the Young Muslim Writers Awards website.
If you submit your writing to the competition, it will imply your acceptance of these conditions.
The closing date for the competition is 23:59:59 on 31st July 2015.