FT Series The Bodley Head/FT Essay Prize Enter your essay for a chance to be published and win £1,500 2019 Bodley Head/FT Essay Prize winner: Your tongue is still yours What happens when we lose the language of our ancestors? Thursday, 5 December, 2019 The Bodley Head/FT Essay Prize: how to write a winning entry Six tips that could lift your essay to the £1,500 prize Thursday, 5 December, 2019 Simon Schama: why not be wordy? Aspiring writers are often advised to be concise — yet there are other ways of making every word count Thursday, 5 December, 2019 The 2018 Bodley Head/FT Essay Prize winner Memories of being laid low in a Manhattan hotel by a honeymoon virus prompt a journey into the more distant past Thursday, 5 December, 2019 The fight for survival in China’s abandoned rural towns As China’s young migrate to cities, nature is reclaiming villages inhabited only by the old and poor Thursday, 5 December, 2019 The muralists keeping peace in Belfast’s no man’s land Protestant Mark Ervine and his Catholic apprentice Paul Doran on a fragile peace ‘on the wall’ Thursday, 5 December, 2019 More from this Series Simon Schama: Why I write Dickens’ abundance and Orwell’s asperity are equally inspiring Thursday, 5 December, 2019 2016 Bodley Head/FT Essay Prize winner: Cash and curry How demonetisation and a TV chef inspired an unlikely Indian pilgrimage Thursday, 5 December, 2019 2015 Bodley Head/FT Essay Prize winner: Dreams of the sea Bolivia’s battle to reclaim its lost coastline Thursday, 5 December, 2019 2014 Bodley Head/FT Essay Prize winner: Eiderdown Edward Posnett explores the links between Icelanders, ducks and capitalism Thursday, 5 December, 2019 2013 Bodley Head/FT Essay Prize winner: British Muslim Soldier Adnan Sarwar endured racial abuse growing up. What led him to fight ‘for Queen and country’? Thursday, 5 December, 2019 2012 Bodley Head/FT Essay Prize winner: Getting past Coetzee The South African academic Hedley Twidle won the first Bodley Head/FT Essay Prize with this essay Thursday, 5 December, 2019 The Bodley Head/FT Essay Prize 2019 terms and conditions Thursday, 5 December, 2019
