MARION Science + Storytelling Prize 2025 – YOA

Deadline: July 22, 2025

Applications for the MARION Science + Storytelling Prize 2025 are actually open. The MARION Science + Storytelling Prize invites ACT-primarily based writers of all ages to creatively discover the wonders of science by storytelling. They are on the lookout for unique, imaginative quick written works, in essay kind, poetry, quick tales, or hybrid writing that reply to the 2025 National Science Week theme:

Decoding the Universe – Exploring the unknown with nature’s hidden language.

This theme invites reflection on the methods we perceive and interpret the world, from DNA and information to fowl calls, star patterns, magnetic fields, fungi networks, and mathematical methods. Writers are inspired to contemplate how nature “speaks” and the way we, as people, pay attention, translate, and create which means from these hidden methods. Whether you’re fascinated by the cosmos, animal behaviours, local weather rhythms, or the algorithms behind synthetic intelligence, we invite you to reply with creativity, and curiosity.

Prizes

Open (18+)

• Winner: $400
• Runner-up: $200

65+ (for writers aged 65 and over)

• Winner: $400
• Runner-up: $200

Youth (below 18)

• Winner: $250
• Runner-up: $150

Additional commendations could also be awarded on the choose’s discretion.

Eligibility

• This prize is open to writers who’re both:
  • Residents of the ACT
  • Can clearly and strongly reveal an ACT-primarily based arts observe.
• Entrants should choose the proper age class on the time of submission:
  • Open (18+)
  • 65+ (aged 65 and over)
  • Youth (below 18)
• Youth entries (below 18) have to be submitted with parental/guardian permission. A checkbox to verify this, is on the submission kind.

Submission Requirements

• Entries should:
  • Be unique works written throughout the 12 months previous to submission.
  • Respond meaningfully to the 2025 theme:
    “Decoding the Universe – Exploring the unknown with nature’s hidden language.”
  • Not be beforehand revealed, awarded a prize, or presently into consideration elsewhere.
• Works submitted to different competitions are allowed, offered they meet the situations above.

Format Requirements

Submit your entry as a .doc, .docx, or PDF file by way of the net kind.

• Entries have to be typed in a readable font (e.g. Times New Roman or Arial, 11 or 12 pt).
• Submissions have to be nameless — no names or figuring out info within the doc. (Your title might be captured by way of the shape however de-recognized for judging.)
• All entries have to be written in English.

Length Limits

• Poetry: Maximum 40 traces (excluding title).
• All different types (essays, quick tales, hybrid writing): Maximum 1,000 phrases.

Application

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to MARION Science + Storytelling Prize.