To all students enrolled in UM English Department courses

The Best Essay in English Studies competition for 2025 is now open. The Department looks forward to acknowledging student achievement by awarding a prize for the best essay in each year of the undergraduate degree, and in each of our three subject areas: Linguistics, Literary Studies, and Translation (for Translation this may be a translated passage). Please submit your most original, insightful, and/or best-researched work.

The competition is open to all students enrolled in UM English Department courses. Each student may submit one piece of work, which should be an academic assignment in one of the Department’s courses in the current academic year (2024–25). If the work has already been graded it must have received a mark of at least 88 to qualify, and please note that creative work and group work is not eligible for these prizes.

Essays will be judged by the relevant professors in each area of study. Prizes will be presented at an Award Day on Friday 2 May, although if no work of a sufficiently high standard is submitted for a subject’s year group, then that prize will not be awarded.

Essays should be submitted to deng.bestessay@um.edu.mo . Please give your name, student number, and year of study (year 1/2/3/4) on the first page of the essay or translation. The deadline for submission is 5pm on Thursday 17 April.

We very much look forward to receiving your work.