he aim of the prize is to promote scholarship among postgraduate research students working on the Victorian period in any discipline in the UK and abroad.
The journal inaugurated the prize in 2007, and our past winners include Louise Lee, Tiffany Watt-Smith, Bob Nicholson, Tom Schriven, Roisin Lang, Lucy Whitehead, Catherine Healy and Sarah Betts, whose essays appear in issues 13.1 (2008), 15.1 (2010), 17.3 (2012), 19.1 (2014), 21.4 (2016), 24.4 (2019), 27.1 (2022), 30.1 (2025), are freely available to read online.
THe winner's prize will consists of publication of the winning essay in Journal of Victorian Culture, £100 cash prize, and £250 worth of OUP books.
Entries should be submitted to the journal in the normal manner via the JVC online submission system.
Additional information can be found online.
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