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Dickens Journals Online Announces a New Literary Journalism Competition

March 17, 2014 By Denton Dickens Fellowship staff

Charles Dickens’s weekly periodicals ushered in an innovative look at Mid-Victorian life in England.  In 2012, Dickens Journals Online (DJO) adopted a similar innovation when they introduced an Open Access website devoted to exploring articles in these periodicals.  John Drew of the University of Buckingham, where the new journal is housed, remarks that the website is “dedicated to representing them in a readable, scholarly format, and analyzing their contents.”

With this new format in mind, the DJO has undertaken yet another new venture: a Literary Journalism Competition focusing on said articles.  Entrants are to submit articles suitable for publication in a weekly number of Household Words or All the Year Round.  Minimum word count is 1500 words or 60 lines of poetry; maximum word count is 2000 words.  Scholars are urged to visit www.djo.org.uk for suggestions and guidance in composing submissions.

Deadline for submission is Saturday, September 6, 2014, at midnight.  Entrants must submit their work as attachments to an email message.  A panel of judges will choose the winning entries which will be published by the journal in an “Extra Twenty-First-Number.”  The website will post names of winners and details regarding prizes.

Charles Dickens’s weekly periodicals ushered in an innovative look at Mid-Victorian life in England.  In 2012, Dickens Journals Online (DJO) adopted a similar innovation when they introduced an Open Access website devoted to exploring articles in these periodicals.  John Drew of the University of Buckingham, where the new journal is housed, remarks that the website is “dedicated to representing them in a readable, scholarly format, and analyzing their contents.”

With this new format in mind, the DJO has undertaken yet another new venture: a Literary Journalism Competition focusing on said articles.  Entrants are to submit articles suitable for publication in a weekly number of Household Words or All the Year Round.  Minimum word count is 1500 words or 60 lines of poetry; maximum word count is 2000 words.  Scholars are urged to visit www.djo.org.uk for suggestions and guidance in composing submissions.

Deadline for submission is Saturday, September 6, 2014, at midnight.  Entrants must submit their work as attachments to an email message.  A panel of judges will choose the winning entries which will be published by the journal in an “Extra Twenty-First-Number.”  The website will post names of winners and details regarding prizes.

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