The National Bar Association of Ukraine is accepting applications for the second nationwide contest ‘In the Language of Prose,’ aimed at discovering creatively talented lawyers and promoting their artistic works.
The contest is initiated by the NAU Committee on Humanities and Creative Initiatives in cooperation with the Center for Advocacy and Law Research of the NAU.
According to the Regulations of the literary contest, participants can be legal professionals who have the right to practice law in our country according to the Law ‘On Advocacy and Advocacy Activities.’
The ‘In the Language of Prose’ contest will determine winners in three categories:
- essay (a work with arbitrary composition, up to 1,000 words or up to 7,000 characters with spaces);
- short story (a work, up to 3,000 words or up to 20,000 characters with spaces);
- feuilleton (a genre of artistic-publicistic literature of satirical content, up to 3,000 words or up to 20,000 characters with spaces).
Entries in the contest are accepted in the state language of Ukraine, as well as in the languages of national minorities residing in Ukraine, and in any other language with an author’s translation into the state language of Ukraine. A participant can submit up to three works for each category.
Interested individuals must submit their application by May 25 (the form can be downloaded at the link) along with the work(s) to the organizing committee’s email advokatskalira@gmail.com. The application should include a photo of the participant (portrait, size 640×400 px).
By the end of June, the submitted applications will be reviewed, after which the contest commission (consisting of committee members and invited specialists) will begin evaluating the works.
The winners will be announced by July 31. The award ceremony will take place at the end of 2025, and the best works will be included in a collection of prose works by lawyers. It is worth noting that following the results of the first prose contest, a collection of literary works by Ukrainian lawyers titled ‘My Lawyer’s Diary’ was published.
Phone for inquiries: +380 (96) 972 87 28.