The Drawing Matter Trust has announced the return of the Drawing Matter Writing Prize for 2021. Last year’s competition brought together diverse texts from participants across the world, a showcase of ideas exploring drawing as both a noun and a verb. The competition invites participants to carefully look at drawings and to consider what they reveal about the process of design, and the buildings or objects they represent.
The Writing Prize competition is open to anyone aged over 18, with or without a background in architecture or design. A broad range of approaches towards writing are welcome, and voices from art and architectural history, the sciences and humanities, alongside practitioners – architects, designers, artists and writers. This year the competition will be judged by Prof. Adrian Forty and Prof. Briony Fer, with support from the Drawing Matter editorial team.
The competition winners, and other participants with outstanding entries, will be invited to publish their texts on Drawing Matter’s website. Covid-19 restrictions permitting, the team hopes to announce the winners on Saturday 17 July 2021 at the Drawing Matter Archive in Somerset. This year, the competition is divided into two categories: Autograph and Archive. Participants are invited to enter either or both categories and should submit one text of up to 1500 words per category.
Deadline: Midnight (BST) on Tuesday 1 June 2021. Find out more about the competition at Drawing Matter.
