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HOLODOMOR 2024 ESSAY PRIZE RESULTS

The Association of Ukrainians in Great Britain is pleased to announce the winners of the 5th AUGB Holodomor Essay Prize Competition 2024 as follows:  

The judges have now assessed all the essays sent in for the AUGB Holodomor Essay Prize 2024 - the outcomes are as follows:

1st prize: Maxim Vorobev, Barton Peveril Sixth Form College, Eastleigh
2nd prize: Emma Price, Durham Sixth Form Centre, Durham
3rd prize: Kateryna Sokolova-Rudakova, Scarborough College, Scarborough

Highly commended: Daniel Milne, Clifton College, Bristol
Highly commended: Meja Froggatt, Carlton le Willows Academy, Nottingham
Highly commended: Oli Berry, Churston Ferrers Grammar School, Brixham

The judges were impressed with all the entries which were all very different and they thank all the entrants for putting in so much time and effort. The Essay Prize Competition, now running for the fifth time, is open to Sixth Form students (Years 12/13) attending any school or college in the UK and studying any subject. Candidates were invited to submit an essay, of between 1500 and 2000 words. The Association of Ukrainians in Great Britain (AUGB), in partnership with the Nadia Diuk Memorial Programme, offers a prize worth up to £1000, split between the candidate and their school, for the best essay on the topic of the 1932 – 1933 Holodomor, the Ukrainian famine in which an estimated seven million Ukrainians died over a period of 18 months.

You can read each of our winning essays here:
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1st Prize Maxim Vorobev

2nd Prize Emma Price

3rd Prize Kateryna Sokolova-Rudakova

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Highly commended Meja Froggat
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Highly commended Daniel Milne

Highly commended Oli Berry

The Association of Ukrainians in Great Britain (AUGB) is not able to acknowledge receipt of entries, but the winning entrants will be contacted by email by mid-September at the latest. An announcement will also be posted on the AUGB website with the names of the winners after this date. Winning essays will be published on the AUGB website, with the winners’ permission.

Essays must be written in English and emailed as Microsoft Word documents. The Essay Cover Sheet with your details should be appended to the email. Please make sure your postal address and other contact details are entered correctly. Your personal details/data will be collected by the AUGB only for the purposes of this competition and will be processed in accordance with any applicable data protection legislation.

Candidates must conform to the guidelines given in terms of length (maximum 2000 words), making sure any citations and quotes are acknowledged using any recognised system. Bibliographies are not included in the word count. Ensure pages are numbered.

The judges are particularly looking for originality, a clear structure, and use of different research and source materials such as books, websites and other sources. Entries composed using essay writing services or AI-powered writing assistants or similar are fraudulent and will not be accepted. Candidates are required to sign a Declaration of Originality (via the provided Essay Cover Sheet) stating that the essay is their own work and give permission for the judging panel to use licensed electronic software to examine their work for plagiarism should they wish to do so. The essay must not have been previously professionally or commercially published in any language and must not be in breach of any third-party rights. Candidates must agree to the Terms of the Essay Prize by ticking and dating the Declaration on the Essay Cover Sheet.

There is no limit to entries per school or college, although only one entry per entrant is accepted. There is no fee to enter.

The deadline for submission of essays is 17:00 (BST) Friday 19th July 2024. Essays which are not submitted by this time may not be considered.

‍Documents to download:
‍·       Essay Cover Sheet
‍·       Printable A4Poster/Leaflet (white background)‍