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The Pushkin Prizes

The Pushkin Prizes commemorate writer Alexander Pushkin who died in 1837. A charitable trust administers the prizes which draws entries from every state secondary school in Scotland as well as from schools in and around Pushkin's hometown of St Petersburg.

Students submit a folio containing three pieces of original writing - prose, poetry, autobiography, fiction or journalism. The judges look for original, imaginative writing in any genre.

Schools are invited to submit a maximum number of 20 folios per school year.
Past winners' work is posted on the website for reference; as are tips on how to approach the task.

Each winner receives a certificate and each school at which a winner is a student receives a certificate. Winners also receive a selection of books.

The winners - including those from St Petersburg - are invited to attend a residential creative writing course at Moniack Mhor Arvon Foundation Writers' Centre near Inverness, where they are tutored by two professional writers

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