Autumn 2023
Welcome to the Alpine Fellowship Journal for Autumn 2023.
It’s been a busy year!
After awarding our prizes in March, it was full steam ahead to our tenth annual symposium. This year, we returned to Fjallnas, Sweden to explore the concept of Flourishing and, in the process, experienced one of the most inspiring, rewarding and transformational events in our history.
Here’s a quick roundup of what happened and a brief glance ahead to next year.
Enjoy!
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Alpine Fellowship Symposium 2023
It’s hard to believe it’s been ten years since we were founded and hosted our first symposium.
We were a lot smaller back then, but our mission remained exactly the same; to encourage the sharing of ideas and knowledge, to bring together people from disconnected fields and to support new talent in a variety of art forms.
In ten years, we’ve hosted symposiums all over Europe, we’ve handed out tens of thousands of pounds of financial support to emerging talent, and we’ve created hours of free intellectual and educational content.
Our reach and ambition are growing all the time and we look forward to the next ten years.
If you want a quick snapshot of the action from this years’s symposium, watch the video below.
YouTube Channel
Our symposium has always attracted extraordinary speakers. All of them are industry experts and thought leaders in a diverse array of fields.
At our 2023 symposium, we welcomed Aloe Blacc, Ben Ahrens, Alison Stanger, and many more.
We’re often limited in the number of guests we can invite to the symposium, but we’re committed to making sure that all of the excellent content that we create is made available to anyone who wants to engage all over the world.
If you haven’t already, please visit our YouTube Channel, where you can find all of the talks from our 2022 symposium, as well as our extended back catalogue of content arranged by year.
2023 Prizes
On 1st January 2023, our fives prizes - Academic, Poetry, Theatre, Visual Art and Writing opened to the world. Over the next two months, thousands of people applied from over 100 hundred countries. Then our judges commence the hard work of selecting winners.
We’re proud to announce those winners and to share with you some of the winning work:
Alpine Fellowship Poetry Prize 2023
Winner: Once for each thing. Just once; no more. by Lois P. Jones
Second place: December Loreby Sharon Black
Third place: Titania by Katie Hale
Honourable Mentions: Paul McMahon and Eleanor Stanford
To read the winning poems from this year, click the link below:
Alpine Fellowship Writing Prize 2023
Winners (joint): Judith O’Reilly and Laura Theis
Runners up: Zaqary Fekete and Pooja Poudel
To read the winning stories, please click the link below:
Alpine Fellowship Theatre Prize 2023
Winner: Fintan Dineen
Runners up: Kate Roche and Amy Lever
Alpine Fellowship Visual Art Prize 2023
Winner: Tara Abdullah
Second Place: Jian Luo
Third Place: Fǎng Zhōu
Honourable Mentions: Samira Alborzhouh, Zillah Bowes, Greg Crowhurst, Mostafa Saeidi, Öykü Tunaboyu
Alpine Fellowship Philosophy Prize
Last year, we launched our new-look Academic Prize, to ensure that we’re offering targeted support to academics in a field that has been close to our heart since our foundation ten years ago: philosophy.
The first ever winners, Toby Tricks and Maria Zanella, received their awards and memorably presented at our symposium. You can watch their talks below:
The prize was such a success that we’re continuing it again this year, only this year we’re renaming it the Alpine Fellowship Philosophy Prize.
We’re welcoming applicants studying philosophy at any UK-based instituion. Full details can be found below and applications will be opening on 1st December, to give academics more time to compile the application materials.
For more information on this prize, please visit the prize page on the link below:
The 2024 Prizes
The Theatre, Poetry, Visual Art and Writing Prizes will be opening for entries from:
1st January 2024 - 1st March 2024 at 23:59 UK time.
Entries are accepted from anywhere in the world and full details can be found on each of our prize pages.
New Prizes
We’re always looking for more ways to support artists and academics, and to make our symposiums as relevant, engaging and life-changing for its participants as we can.
In 2024, we’re launching two new prizes that will offer incredible oppurtunities to people who might not have had the chance to apply before.
To find out more about our new prizes, click the links below:
The Alpine Fellowship Music Prize
Awarded for an original composition that responds to our theme.
The Alpine Fellowship Refugee Scholar Prize
Created to help refugees, asylum-seekers, internally displaced or stateless people to continue their academic careers.
That’s all for now…
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