English 4-11 Picture Book Awards
The English 4-11 Picture Book Awards for the best children’s picture books of the year
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The Beatrice White Award
This is award is to the best scholarly article noticed in the Year’s Work in English Studies (YWES) in the fields of English Literature before 1590.
The Betty Haigh Shakespeare Prize
The competition is open to any sixth form student of English literature.
Michael Murphy Memorial Prize Poetry Competition
A biennial prize for a distinctive first book of poetry in English published in Britain or Ireland.
The Margaret Mallett Award for Children’s Non-Fiction
The prize has been established by the English Association in memory of Margaret Mallett, a Fellow of the English Association and a long-serving member of the editorial board of our journal English 4-11, who died after a short illness in March 2017.
English Postgraduate Essay Prize
The competition provides an ideal opportunity for students to enhance their CV through the publication of their work in an excellent high-profile journal that caters to a very wide range of genres, periods, and critical approaches.
Fellows Award
The competition provides an ideal opportunity for students to enhance their CV through the publication of their work in an excellent high-profile journal that caters to a very wide range of genres, periods, and critical approaches.
Charles Dickens Essay Prize
The 2016 competition was based on a passage taken from Great Expectations Dickens. It was open to UK students aged between 14 and 16, or students abroad who were taking UK examinations (GCSE or IGCSE).
Charles Dickens Primary Award
The Charles Dickens Primary Award was sponsored by the Dickens Fellowship in collaboration with the English Association and the Charles Dickens Museum. Successful schools received an award of £250
Jane Eyre Essay Competition
This was an essay competition for enthusiastic young readers aged 15 years and under, who enjoyed writing. It was an annual competition based on a literary text, requiring sound writing skills, a strong imagination and a desire to explore works of literary merit.