Creative Writing Prize 2026

Our 2026 Creative Writing Competition was brought to you by:

The Outreach Team in the Faculty of Classics at the University of Oxford and   
The Ashmolean Museum.

We received lots of entries for the competition - the standard was incredibly high!

The entries were judged by curators at the Ashmolean Museum and the Outreach Team.

The runners up are:

11-13: Thomas (2nd), Narayan (3rd), Amna (4th)

14-16: Karishma (2nd), Eza (3rd), Riverling (4th)

17-18: Molly (2nd), Sophie (3rd), Dayeon (4th)