2012 Winner announced!

We’re delighted to announce the winner of The London Library’s inaugural Student Prize writing competition!

Ben Mason, a final year Philosophy and German student at Trinity College, Oxford, was awarded first prize, with Caroline Criado-Perez, Sylvia Christie and Andrew McCormack named as runners-up.

Read the winning entry, published in The London Library Magazine (Issue 16)

Many congratulations to our winner and three runners-up, and thank you to all those students who entered the competition. Our panel of Student Prize judges thoroughly enjoyed reading all the entries and were impressed with the quality, originality of approach and great effort demonstrated.

The Prize winner receives a cheque for £5,000 and the three runners-up receive cheques for £1,000. The winner and runners-up will also receive a year’s membership of The London Library and a year’s subscription to The Times, as well as the opportunity to take part in a mini-internship at The Times.

Download the latest Student Prize 2012 Press Release here