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Harbingers’ Human of the Year
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The Harbinger Prize in Rhetoric
Submit a written speech supporting your nominee for Human of the Year.
Harbingers’ Human of the Year is a person who has contributed to the possibility of today’s youth living full lives rather than cleaning up messes left by their forebears.
The speech may not exceed 2,000 words.
Coordinator: TBC
Chair: TBC
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The Harbinger Prize in Politics
Submit an essay of no more than 2,000 words on the subject:
Your 50th birthday.
Coordinators: Levon Nurijanyan, Mary Stabińska
Chair: TBC
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The Harbinger Prize on Human Rights
Submit an essay of no more than 2,000 words on the subject:
The day my rights ceased to exist on paper alone.
Coordinators: Noemi Elliott, Jinn Ong
Chair: TBC
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The Harbinger Prize in International Relations
Submit an essay of no more than 2,000 words on the subject:
Do (border) walls make good neighbours?
Coordinators: Mary Stabińska, Daria Badger
Chair: TBC
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The Harbinger Prize in Social Justice
Submit an essay of no more than 2,000 words on the subject:
Imagine a revolution in 2022.
Coordinators: Jinn Ong, Levon Nurijanyan
Chair: TBC
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The Harbinger Prize in History
Submit an essay of no more than 2,000 words on the subject:
Change an aspect of a historical event and explore the implications.
Coordinators: Ilya Kan, Noemi Elliott
Chair: TBC
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The Harbinger Prize in Economics
Submit an essay of no more than 2,000 words, answering the question:
How will the world end?
Coordinator: TBC
Chair: TBC
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The Harbinger Prize in Science
Submit an essay of no more than 2,000 words on the subject:
Explain a commonly misunderstood scientific topic, ignorance of which could be fatal.
Coordinator: Noor Bejjani, Aleksy Chwedczuk
Chair: TBC
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The Harbinger Prize in Short Fiction
Submit a short story of no more than 2,000 words considering the prompt:
The perfect villain.
Coordinators: Noemi Elliott, Ilya Kan
Chair: TBC
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The Harbinger Prize in Visual Art
Submit an artwork, a comic of up to 4 panels, or an animation of no longer than 60 seconds, on the subject:
The foreseeable future.
Coordinators: Daria Badger, Elizabeth Bronstein, Sandy Chen
Chair: TBC
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Statutes of The Harbinger Prize Competition 2021
(1)
The Harbinger Prize Competition 2021 is organised and funded by The Oxford School of Practical Journalism.
(2)
The competition is open to those born on or after January 1, 2003 and not later than the December 31, 2006.
(3)
All submissions must be in English.
Each work can have only one author, and each entrant can submit only one work. We therefore encourage entrants to decide on the category which offers them the best chances of winning
To ensure impartiality during the evaluation process, all entries are blinded upon submission.
All submissions are final and cannot be edited or amended in any way.
(4)
The application form is available at www.hrbmagazine.com/harbingerprize and will remain open until 11.59 pm GMT on 31 October 2021, which is the deadline for all applications.
(5)
Shortlists of ten authors in each category will be announced at www.hrbmagazine.com/harbingerprize at 12 noon GMT on 19 November 2021.
(6)
Winners will be announced at www.hrbmagazine.com/harbingerprize at 12 noon GMT on 10 December 2021.
(7)
Prizes shall be awarded in ten categories by the magazine’s Editorial Board.
During awards deliberations, each member of the Editorial Board shall have one vote.
The Editorial Board may delegate decision-making to a subcommittee, but the Board must ensure that every entry is evaluated at least twice.
In the final stages of their proceedings, award juries shall be chaired by special guest Chairpersons, who are renowned experts in their respective fields.
The Chairperson shall have one vote, except for instances in which the jury vote is tied; in such instances the Chairperson’s vote shall count as two.
Each jury shall have one or more Coordinators from the Editorial Board. Coordinators’ responsibilities include verification of the validity of submissions, initial assessment of submissions and provision of the Editorial Board and jury Chairpersons with all the information required for deliberations.
Chairpersons of juries and Coordinators shall be announced at a later date.
Tutors from The Oxford School of Journalism may support jurors during evaluation of submissions, but they shall not have the right to vote.
(8)
Three entries shall be awarded in each category. The 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes shall take the form of educational vouchers worth £750, £500 and £250, respectively, to be applied towards an educational course of the prizewinners’ choice.
No more than thirty prize-winning essays, short stories and artworks will be published by harbingers’ magazine online and in the annual print edition of the magazine.
No more than thirty winners will be offered a total of ten hours each of one-on-one tuition with tutors from The Oxford School of Practical Journalism, during which time they may prepare new contributions for harbingers’ magazine – or work on something else, if such is their wish.
Jurors may decide not to award the 1st prize, if no submission meets the standards set by the jury. The same applies to the 2nd and 3rd prizes.
(9)
The Harbinger Prize Competition 2021 consists of ten categories, listed at www.hrbmagazine.com/harbingerprize
(10)
Once submitted, applications shall be blinded and coded, so members of the juries will not know the identity of the authors of works they evaluate.
Participants’ details shall be sealed and stored by The Oxford School of Practical Journalism.
The Coordinators of the juries shall provide The Oxford School of Practical Journalism with ten codes corresponding with the shortlisted works. The School shall announce the shortlists, and jurors shall not know which codes correspond to which works during the final stages of their deliberations.
(11)
Members of the Editorial Board shall not be eligible to enter the competition, and tutors associated with The Oxford School of Practical Journalism are barred from tutoring those entering The Harbinger Prize Competition.
(12)
The Oxford School of Practical Journalism reserves the right to contact authors of submissions – both shortlisted and not – to offer them the opportunity to develop their submissions into articles for harbingers’ magazine.
(13)
A valid application consists of:
(a.) A .docx file for written works, a .jpg/jpeg file for artwork, a .mov file for animation.
The file cannot exceed 10MB in size and should not be arranged or marked in such a way that it would be impossible to blind the application for the evaluation process. As creative liberty is of paramount importance, an author may decide to reveal their identity, but only when the content of their work clearly supports such a decision and the same value cannot be achieved otherwise.
(b.) Personal details: name(s), surname(s), date of birth, address, country of residence, details of school attended.
(c.) Contact details for both the entrant and the entrant’s school, including valid e-mail and phone number.
Winners will be also asked to submit a bio of 80-150 words, written in third person and a current picture, which are required for the publication of winning works.
(14)
Entrants are required not to publish or use their works in any other way, in full or in part, until the outcome of their application is resolved. Failure to comply with this provision shall result in the application’s being deemed invalid.
Entrants who win a prize agree to transfer the copyright of the materials submitted to The Oxford School of Practical Journalism with no compensation beyond the prize. The Oxford School of Practical Journalism shall assert the moral rights of the authors of winning works when using winning works for publication.
(15)
Entrants shall be required to attest that the work submitted is their own, and that they are of eligible age.
In case of reasonable doubt on the part of the jury, the Oxford School of Practical Journalism may verify the above information in any way it deems appropriate within the context of the Statute. Failing to comply with requests for verification from the Oxford School of Practical Journalism may result in an application’s being deemed invalid.
All submissions shall be tested with regard to plagiarism. All written works shall be uploaded to relevant databases as references for future plagiarism tests.
Please note that any attempt at submitting work authored by someone else may result in the notification of relevant institutions and authorities and the permanent disqualification of the entrant from all contests and programmes sponsored by The Oxford School of Practical Journalism.
(16)
Winners will be contacted individually and provided with all relevant information about their prizes and the process of claiming them.
Harbinger’s Human of the Year 2021 is a symbolic title awarded to the person nominated by the winner of the 1st prize in The Harbinger Prize in Rhetoric.
(17)
Educational vouchers – in valuations of £750 for winners of first place, £500 for winners of second place, and £250 for winners of third place – shall be claimable within six months following the announcement of the winners – that is until 3 July 3 2022; on the next day prizes will become void.
The Oxford School of Practical Journalism shall arrange to apply the amount of the respective educational voucher to the course nominated by the winner within 14 days of being notified of the winner’s decision.
The Oxford School of Practical Journalism encourages participants to spend their prizes on the best journalistic and educational experiences the United Kingdom can offer – including, but not limited to the Faber & Faber Academy, Guardian Masterclasses, and University of Oxford online courses might serve as examples – but shall do its best to accommodate other choices. It shall be solely the responsibility of the winners to ensure that they are eligible for and enrolled on courses they plan to attend.
Winners cannot and shall not, under any circumstances, receive a direct transfer, cash, or other emolument in lieu of an educational voucher.
(18)
The publication of the winning works will be arranged as soon as reasonably possible.
Each of the winners will receive a copy of the annual printed edition of harbingers’ magazine in which their work is printed.
Winning works may undergo typical editorial procedures before publication; authors will be consulted throughout the process. Because animated works cannot be published, they will be included to the best of publisher’s ability.
(19)
Winners may claim ten hours of one-to-one tuition from The Oxford School of Practical Journalism within six months following announcement of the winners.
The Oxford School of Practical Journalism reserves the right to negotiate the dates and times of tuition according to the availability of its tutors – in the case of scheduling difficulties, the deadline for claim of tuition may be extenuated.
(20)
Entrants are required to consent to The Oxford School of Journalism’s storing and processing their personal data for purposes of completing the competition.
The Oxford School of Practical Journalism shall be responsible for storing and processing the personal information of the entrants, in line with current legal requirements. These data shall not be stored any longer than necessary, and entrants shall have the right to view, amend, and request deletion of their personal data.
(21)
In case of doubt with regard to the rules of this Statute, The Oxford School of Practical Journalism reserves the right to make the final decision.
The Oxford School of Practical Journalism reserves the right to amend or update the Statute when made aware of a circumstance or circumstances requiring such a change to be made.
The Oxford School of Practical Journalism also reserves the right to change the Statute at any date, especially where the introduction of such changes would benefit competition participants as a class.
The list of any and all amendments made to the above Statute will be provided at www.hrbmagazine.com/harbingerprize
