Previous Shortlists & Winners

The New Media Writing Prize has been running since 2010. Here is an archive of all our winners and shortlisted entries.

Opening Up, Writing Magazine Student Award

Alone

Mudkipaz

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Opening Up, Writing Magazine Student Award

Do No Harm

EduSim

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Opening Up, Writing Magazine Student Award

Daily Life of Regular Joes

EstPiedrahita

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Opening Up, Writing Magazine Student Award

Pas de Deux

Ruben Gandus, Lorenzo Micozzi, Lorenzo Pandolfi, Livia Chiriatti, Filippo Rabottini

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Opening Up, Writing Magazine Student Award

The Universe is a Lonely Place

Haroro

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Opening Up, Writing Magazine Student Award

The Reflection

EstPiedrahita

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Opening Up, Writing Magazine Student Award

Egyptian Survivors of Sexual Violence Complain of Forensic Examiners Mistreatment

Isra’ Saleh

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Chris Meade Memorial Prize (Main Prize), Opening Up

Ghost City Avenue S

Jody Zellen

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Chris Meade Memorial Prize (Main Prize), Opening Up

Potential Ideas and Other Things that Live in Your Gut

Alex Saum-Pascual

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Chris Meade Memorial Prize (Main Prize), Opening Up, Winner

Anonymous Animal

Everest Pipkin

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Chris Meade Memorial Prize (Main Prize), Opening Up

Admiration Point

Rachel Helps

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Chris Meade Memorial Prize (Main Prize), Opening Up

Beneath the Veil

Kuda Rice

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Chris Meade Memorial Prize (Main Prize), Opening Up

Ren’s Demons I

yo252yo

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Chris Meade Memorial Prize (Main Prize), Opening Up

Falling

Laura Catherine Brown

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Chris Meade Memorial Prize (Main Prize), Opening Up, Winner, Writing Magazine Student Award

Penrose Station

Kathryn Yu

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Chris Meade Memorial Prize (Main Prize), Opening Up

Instructions

Alina Rios

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Chris Meade Memorial Prize (Main Prize), Opening Up

Miss Communication

Joanna Walsh

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Chris Meade Memorial Prize (Main Prize), Opening Up

love

Alan Bigelow

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Chris Meade Memorial Prize (Main Prize), Opening Up

Paying It Forward

xtine burrough

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Chris Meade Memorial Prize (Main Prize), Opening Up, Writing Magazine Student Award

Under the Surface

eveghost (Elian Eve Jentoft)

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Chris Meade Memorial Prize (Main Prize), Digital Journalism Award, Opening Up, Writing Magazine Student Award

1st September 2020 My float journey by Sarah Clark

Sarah Clark

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Digital Journalism Award, Opening Up, Writing Magazine Student Award

Istorya Ta!

Paul Mart Jeyand J. Matangcas

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Chris Meade Memorial Prize (Main Prize), Opening Up

Figurski at Findhorn on Acid

Richard Holeton, Marc Rose, Dene Grigar, Holly Slocum, Kathleen Zoller, Betsy Hanrahan

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Chris Meade Memorial Prize (Main Prize), Opening Up

The Voyage of Earnest (I) The Northern Paradise

Damon Macmillan

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Opening Up, Writing Magazine Student Award

A library discovery in La Paz, Bolivia

Clinton R. Siegle

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Chris Meade Memorial Prize (Main Prize), Opening Up, Writing Magazine Student Award

And maybe I am not lost. Maybe this is just the way I must travel..

Clinton R. Siegle

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Chris Meade Memorial Prize (Main Prize), Opening Up

The Noisemaking Girl

Kahra

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Chris Meade Memorial Prize (Main Prize), Opening Up

Voidopolis

Kat Mustatea

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Chris Meade Memorial Prize (Main Prize), Opening Up

These Things Are (Not) Alike

Milla van der Have

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Chris Meade Memorial Prize (Main Prize), Opening Up, Writing Magazine Student Award

L’Appel Du Vide

Muhammad Ardi Bahtiar

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Chris Meade Memorial Prize (Main Prize), Opening Up, Writing Magazine Student Award

Time travelers dilemna in one reality is dilemma in another..

Clinton Siegle

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Chris Meade Memorial Prize (Main Prize), Opening Up

Chase the Sun

Frankie Kavakich

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Chris Meade Memorial Prize (Main Prize), Opening Up

Graveyard Strolls

Adina Brodkin

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Chris Meade Memorial Prize (Main Prize), Opening Up

The Thick Table Tavern

Manon (manonamora)

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Chris Meade Memorial Prize (Main Prize), Opening Up

A Sea of Dragons

Briana “Bri” Craig

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Chris Meade Memorial Prize (Main Prize), Digital Journalism Award, Journalism Entry, Opening Up

Hidden Away, These Women Also Made The Revolution

Diogo Cardoso, Rafaela Cortez, José Magro

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Chris Meade Memorial Prize (Main Prize), Opening Up

Soul of Water

Xiaofan Jiang

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Chris Meade Memorial Prize (Main Prize), Opening Up, Winner

Child of Empire

Omi Zola Gupta

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Chris Meade Memorial Prize (Main Prize), Opening Up

One Perfect Day

Margarita Valderrama

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Chris Meade Memorial Prize (Main Prize), Opening Up

Dolphins in the Reservoir

Will Luers, Hazel Smith, Roger Dean

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Chris Meade Memorial Prize (Main Prize), Opening Up

flâneur treadmill

David Thomas Henry Wright, Chris Arnold

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Chris Meade Memorial Prize (Main Prize), Opening Up

Audioplay

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Chris Meade Memorial Prize (Main Prize), Opening Up

In Search of Lost Scroll

Vidya Rajan

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Chris Meade Memorial Prize (Main Prize), Opening Up

The Golden Heist

George Lockett, Rob Thorman

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Chris Meade Memorial Prize (Main Prize), Opening Up, Writing Magazine Student Award

Journalist in a Vacuum (fiction)

Hanna Klimovich, Maryia Klimovich

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Chris Meade Memorial Prize (Main Prize), Opening Up, Writing Magazine Student Award

Cannelé & Nomnom — Defective Agency

Yazaleea, Younès Rabii

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Chris Meade Memorial Prize (Main Prize), Opening Up, Writing Magazine Student Award

I Would’ve Liked The Stillness of Night

Makayla Gubbay

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Chris Meade Memorial Prize (Main Prize), Opening Up, Writing Magazine Student Award

(con)TEXT

Javeria Kausar

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Chris Meade Memorial Prize (Main Prize), Journalism Entry, Opening Up, Winner

Future is uncertain, memory is real. Virtual museum of the prison camp Shtalag 352 in Minsk, Belarus

Maria Ivanova, Maria Kotova, Tatiana Zaidal

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Chris Meade Memorial Prize (Main Prize), Opening Up, Writing Magazine Student Award

Heaven17

Moritz Schwenger

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Chris Meade Memorial Prize (Main Prize), Opening Up

Her Pound of Flesh

IHIABE PAULINE LUCIA

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Chris Meade Memorial Prize (Main Prize), Opening Up

Ila’s Quest

Amulya B

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Chris Meade Memorial Prize (Main Prize), Opening Up

Half a Million Mothers

Dylan McNulty-Holmes

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Chris Meade Memorial Prize (Main Prize), Opening Up

Flight of the CodeMonkeys

Mark C. Marino

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Chris Meade Memorial Prize (Main Prize), Opening Up

Grumple

Rob Wittig, Mark C. Marino

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Chris Meade Memorial Prize (Main Prize), Opening Up

An All Hallow’s Tale

Aasta L. Otnes, Regan Music

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Chris Meade Memorial Prize (Main Prize), Opening Up

CurioCreatures

Alinta Krauth, Jason Nelson

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Chris Meade Memorial Prize (Main Prize), Opening Up

The Many Occasions of Moving

Jason Nelson

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Chris Meade Memorial Prize (Main Prize), Opening Up

Ur Favourite Scary Movie

Louise Orwin

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Chris Meade Memorial Prize (Main Prize), Opening Up

Clever at Seeing without being Seen

Dr Lee Campbell

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Chris Meade Memorial Prize (Main Prize), Opening Up

Niña Perro (Dog-girl)

Lucía Carvalho

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Chris Meade Memorial Prize (Main Prize), Opening Up

Suno

Sukriti

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Chris Meade Memorial Prize (Main Prize), Opening Up

The Secret Behind Sweetmart

Lucy Fulford

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Chris Meade Memorial Prize (Main Prize), Opening Up

Note that some entries may no longer be available due to changes in technology and website hosting provision. An extensive archive of the New Media Writing Prize shortlists and winners is available at the British Library.