THE CHURCH MONUMENTS ESSAY PRIZE

In 2006 the Council of the Church Monuments Society launched a
biennial prize of £250 called the Church Monuments Essay Prize, to be
awarded with a certificate for the best essay submitted in the
relevant year. The aim of the competition is to stimulate more people,
particularly those who are perhaps aiming to write on church monuments
for the first time or who are not regular contributors, to submit
material for the CMS journal Church Monuments. The competition is
therefore open only to those who have not previously published an
article in Church Monuments.

The subject of the essay must be an aspect of church monuments of any
period in Britain or abroad. The length (including endnotes) shall not
exceed 10,000 words and a maximum of 10 illustrations. The prize will
only be awarded if the essay is considered by the judges to be of
sufficiently high standard to merit publication in the Society?s
journal.

There were six entries for the Essay Prize in 2007, of which the
winning essay has now appeared in Church Monuments 23 for 2008;
another entry is due to be published in vol. 24. The next closing date
for entries is 1 January 2010. Please contact the Journal Editors Dr
Sophie Oosterwijk (so4le.ac.uk) or Dr Kerry Bristol
(k.a.c.bristolleeds.ac.uk) for details, or see the Society's website
www.churchmonumentssociety.org for a copy of the rules and for the
guidelines to contributors.

Address for submission of articles (before 1 January 2010):

Dr Kerry Bristol
School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies
University of Leeds
Leeds
LS2 9JT
(United Kingdom)
email: k.a.c.bristolleeds.ac.uk

THE CHURCH MONUMENTS SOCIETY
Patron HRH Duke of Gloucester KG GCVO
Registered Charity 279597
http://www.churchmonumentssociety.org