Essay Competition 2023
The editors of the Elizabeth Bowen Review would now like to invite undergraduate and postgraduate students to submit essays that focus on Bowen’s life or work for the 2023 Essay Competition. Essays should be no more than 4,000 words in length (excluding reference list) and use the Harvard referencing system. The essay should be submitted by email to bowen@beds.ac.uk by 11.59pm on 31st December 2023.
The submitted essays will be judged by a panel, and the winner will have the opportunity to work with the editors so that the essay can be published in either Volume Six or Volume Seven of the Review. The winning essayist will be announced in Volume Six.
For more information, please contact the editors, Dr Nick Turner and Dr Nicola Darwood, at bowen@beds.ac.uk
Essay Competition 2022
The editors of the Elizabeth Bowen Review invite undergraduate and postgraduate students to submit essays that focus on Bowen’s life or work for the 2022 Essay Competition. Essays should be no more than 4,000 words in length (excluding reference list) and use the Harvard referencing system. The essay should be submitted by email to bowen@beds.ac.uk by 11.59pm on 25th June 2022.
The submitted essays will be judged by a panel, and the winner will have the opportunity to work with the editors so that the essay can be published in either Volume Five or Volume Six of the Review. The winning essayist will be announced in Volume Five (to be published in October 2022).
For more information, please contact the editors, Dr Nick Turner and Dr Nicola Darwood, at bowen@beds.ac.uk
Signed copy of Eibhear Walshe’s The Last Day at Bowen’s Court
If you win, you can gift your original copy to a friend, who will be an even better friend thereafter.
Essay Competition 2020
The Editors of the Elizabeth Bowen Review invite BA and MA students to submit essays which focus on Elizabeth Bowen’s life or work for the 2020 Essay Competition. Essays should be no more than 4,000 words in length (excluding reference list) and use the Harvard referencing system. The essay should be submitted by email to bowen@beds.ac.uk 11.59pm on 26th June 2020.
The submitted essays will be judged by a panel and the winner will have the opportunity to work with the editors so that the essay can be published in either Volume Three or Volume Four of the Review. The winning essayist will be announced in Volume Three (to be published in September 2020).
For more information, please contact the editors, Dr Nick Turner and Dr Nicola Darwood, at bowen@beds.ac.uk