The 2025 Honi Soit Writing Competition will launch at Welcome Week 2025 and invites all Sydney University Students to submit an entry for a chance for your work to be recognised by leading writers and to win cash prizes.
2025 THEME: Each year a theme is chosen for the competition by the Honi Soit Editorial team and Prize donor. The 2025 Writing Competition theme will be chosen in January 2025 and the competition will be Launched at Welcome Week 2025
NON-FICTION: Pieces can be up to 1200 words, and must be of an opinion genre expressing a clear argument. Re-imagine, revisit, re-examine. We want you to convince, challenge and provoke us.
FICTION: Pieces can be up to 2000 words of prose or 40 lines of poetry. However, you are not restricted to write in these styles. Be as creative as you would like, and interpret the theme as broadly as you wish while still maintaining thematic links.
PRIZE MONEY (in each category):
First place – $2000
Second place – $700
Third place – $250
Editors’ choice – $50
JUDGES:
FICTION — 2024 Judge Sara M Saleh
2025 Judge TBD
NON-FICTION — 2024 Judge Naaman Zhou
2025 Judge TBD
SUBMISSIONS CLOSE– Week 8 or 9 Semester 1 2025
2025 Submission for to come
AWARD PRESENTATION EVENT – Verge gallery week 11 or 12, Semester 1 2025