• Student contest: 2025 Babel Young Writers' Competition

    From Tristan Miller@Tristan.Miller@umanitoba.ca to comp.ai.nat-lang,sci.lang on Mon Oct 20 13:31:03 2025
    From Newsgroup: sci.lang

    Babel: The Language Magazine <https://babelzine.co.uk/> is running the
    11th edition of its Young Writers' Competition, which encourages young linguists who are starting out on their study of language.

    The competition is open to all linguistics students in further and
    higher education. The winner(s), to be announced in January 2026, will
    have their article published in Babel No. 54 and receive a year's
    subscription to the magazine.

    Competition guidelines:

    Deadline: Monday, 1 December 2025

    Length: 2000 to 2500 words

    Topic: Entries can be on any linguistic topic -- the important thing is
    that the discussion of it is accessible and interesting.

    Format: Entries should be clearly presented in a Word file, with images submitted as separate high-resolution JPEGs.

    Submission: By e-mail to babelthelanguagemagazine@gmail.com with the
    subject "Young Writers' Competition"

    For inspiration, you can browse past articles in the sample issues
    available for free on the magazine's website, or check out articles
    featured on the magazine's social media accounts:

    Bluesky: @babelzine.bsky.social

    X: @Babelzine

    Instagram: @babel_zine

    Mastodon: @babel@masto.ai

    Please e-mail babelthelanguagemagazine@gmail.com if you have any
    questions about the competition.

    Sincerely,
    Tristan Miller
    Babel Advisory Panel
    --
    Dr. Tristan Miller, Assistant Professor
    Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba https://clam.cs.umanitoba.ca/ | Tel. +1 204 474 6792
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