Creative Writing Competition 2023

Tabgha (Heptapegon) – Church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fishes الطابغة - الكنيسة

Tabgha (Heptapegon) – Church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fishes الطابغة - الكنيسة

Elias Khamis/Manar al-Athar

We are delighted to announce the launch of the Faculty of Classics Creative Writing Prize for UK students aged between 11 & 18 years.

Our aim is to inspire a creative response to images from the Manar al-Athar Photo Archive and to encourage curiosity in and reflection on the ancient world.

The first prize is £100 and there are lots of other prizes too.

Participants are invited to choose a photo from the The Manar al-Athar Photo Archive and use it as inspiration to write one of the following:
•    Poem
•    Short Story
•    Play
•    Monologue
•    Comic/Graphic Novel
•    Creative Description

Deadline: Sunday 21 May 2023
Full information and how to enter here: https://clasoutreach.web.ox.ac.uk/creativewriting-2023 

This competition is brought to you from The Faculty of Classics, The Manar al-Athar Photo Archive and The Oxford Centre for Byzantine Studies, all at The University of Oxford