ECPMF Young Writers Contest: One thousand words for freedom

Link: ECPMF

Young people under 27 are invited to write one thousand words about what press and media freedom means to them. This can take the form of an essay, a newspaper or magazine article, poem, play or blog post in any of these languages: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Danish, Hungarian, Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian, Albanian, Serbian/Bosnian/Croatian, Greek, Bulgarian, Flemish, Dutch, Russian, Turkish, Romanian.

The multi-lingual jury made up of ECPMF Board Members, Consortium Partners and team will select a shortlist of five entries in each category, to be translated into ECPMF’s official languages of English and German before selection by the Final Jury of Board Members.

Each entry must be entirely the young writer’s own original previously unpublished work, and the ECPMF reserves the right to use anti-plagiarism detection techniques to check this.  ’Published’ means revealed to a general audience, e.g. a blog post.

The first prize will be the participation at the European Media Freedom conference in October in Leipzig (Germany). The expenses for the trip to Leipzig for you and your company (young people aged under 18 must be accompanied by an adult) will be covered.

Moreover the winning entries will be published at the ECPMF website www.ecpmf.eu.

The deadline is 30 June 2016, send your work to press (at) ECPMF.eu