The David Welch Student Sportswriter of the Year competition was launched in 2012 in memory of the former sports editor of The Daily Telegraph. David was a huge fan of fine writing, who promoted the careers of many of sports media’s best-known journalists, including the Telegraph’s chief sports writer Paul Hayward and chief football writer Sam Wallace. He ran the Telegraph sports desk for 15 years with an adventurous spirit and ground-breaking results.
In honour of those exceptional, award-winning years, this competition is dedicated to uncovering the next generation of brilliant writers who understand that coverage of sport – both in its breadth and detail – can encompass everything from comedy to tragedy to trenchant opinion, colour and illuminating thought.
How to enter
The competition is open to all students aged 16-25 in full-time education at school, college or university. All entrants must submit three pieces of writing no longer than 600 words each. They must be on the subject of sport and should take a wide-ranging form. Specifically:
1. Report of a sporting event (could be hang-gliding, boccia, dressage, as well as the more conventional targets. Colour, detail and humour welcome.)
2. A blog, opinion, feature, interview on any subject either tightly or loosely relevant to sport.
3. A Sporting Top 10. Can be straightforward, such as the top 10 female sports performances of 2015 (along the lines of BT Sport’s Action Woman of the Year Awards) or something far more oblique. It should be an interesting or provocative selection, each of the 10 justified in 50-70 word captions.
The entries must be emailed to entries@davidwelchcompetition.co.uk by Thursday Feb 4, 2016.
Important note
The three sections of your entry must be included in the body of the email, and not added as attachments. Entries must begin with name, address, age, and contact number, and include details of educational establishment, a referee from the school/university and their contact details.
The top three nominees will be decided by a panel of five judges from the industry and the sporting world and invited with a guest to: The SJA British Sports Journalism Awards, sponsored by BT Sport, on Monday Feb 22 at The Lancaster Hotel in London.
The winner will be acknowledged in The Daily Telegraph and have one of their submissions published on The Telegraph website. They will also be offered a week’s unpaid work experience, culminating in the opportunity to attend a sports event to write their own report, accompanied by one of the newspaper’s journalists.
This is an Equal Opportunities award: female students are very much welcome, positively encouraged in fact, to enter.
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