Students compete for top prizes (including audience favourite) by presenting their research through any creative form of expression that is not an essay. Presided by a panel of Humanities faculty judges.

When?

Tuesday, 11 February, 6:30-7:45

Where?

Remote; please register at https://events.uvic.ca/humanities/event/93537-the-unessay-competition

Prizes

• Excellence in Humanistic Creative Expression (decided by judges) $300
• Courageous Creativity (decided by judges) $150
• Audience Favourite (decided by zoom poll) $150

To submit:

We invite UVic undergraduate and graduate student submissions of “unessays” — that is, creative expressions of humanities research or scholarship that depart from the traditional academic essay in favour of painting, film, embroidery, poetry, music, dance, or any other innovative media. Submissions can be solo or team efforts.

Competition rules:

This is a virtual competition and will be held on zoom. Accordingly, submissions will all be virtual.

Each competitor/team has a maximum of 4 minutes to present, and submissions must fall within this time constraint in order to be considered. That is, submissions must be competition ready.

Submissions such as embroidery, painting, or sculpture must be accompanied by an explanatory text that would be presented at competition, or they may be accompanied by recorded audio; such unessays should be submitted as high-quality digital images (still or moving).

All finalists must be present at the live zoom competition in order to be eligible. Presentations accepted for competition may either be pre-recorded or presented in real time over zoom at the event.

How to submit:

All submissions should be sent to the Associate Dean Research, care of humsassistant@uvic.ca, with the subject line “Submission: unessay competition.” To be considered, submissions must be competition ready and received by midnight on January 24, 2025.