Submissions are invited for Humanimal Trust Creative Awards 2024. The last date of submission is March 31, 2024.

About the Trust

They are a charity based in the UK working towards One Medicine.  What is One Medicine, you might ask?

They want to create a world where both humans and animals have better opportunities to benefit equally from medical progress. So, information learnt in the human field is passed onto the veterinary sciences and vice versa.   We can achieve this when vets, doctors, allied professionals and researchers routinely collaborate and connect with each other to share information, resources and studies. This is medical progress for all, but not at the expense of an animal’s life. – this is One Medicine.

Contest Details

In celebration of the connectivity between us and other animals, they are launching our Creative Awards 2024. They invite you to share, using all your creative skills, your thoughts and art based on the wonderful bond between us and the animals we live with on this planet.

Each entry will then be judged by a panel consisting of our founder, Professor Noel Fitzpatrick, world history author and storyteller, Christopher Lloyd, and Managing Director of What on Earth Books, Nancy Feresten.

So whether you are a writer, artist, photographer or film director we have a category for you to enter!

The theme of Time to Connect fits beautifully with what we are striving for at Humanimal Trust.  Humans and animals’ lives are so closely interlinked daily.   We share our homes, our lives, our struggles, world resources and we care for each other.   Sadly, we also share diseases.  What better Time to Connect than now, in Humanimal Trust’s 10th anniversary year to share the power of that connection?

Categories

Entries will be split into age four groups, 7-9 years, 10-11 years, 12-15 years and 16 upwards. An individual can submit one entry per artistic medium. E.g. a short story, a poem, a piece of art or a photograph. Each entry should be accompanied by its own entry form.

Your entry will be judged on how original your creation is, the relevance to the theme of Time to Connect and/or One Medicine, and the use of story writing, poetic, artistic, photographic or videographic techniques for each entry. This will decide a first and runner up place for each age group.  

Guidelines

  • Your entry can be written word, visual art, photographic or video recording.
  • Written word – (Short story, poetry entry, short essay).
  • Create a written piece reflecting the theme of connectivity between species.
  • A short story/essay should be maximum of 500 words.
  • Poetry should be no more than one side of A4 paper.
  • If hand written, the entry must be legible. If typed use font size 12pt.
  • The art category is for creativity, design and self-expression of a visual nature.

Prizes

All winning entries will be published on Humanimal Trust website, shared on our social media and with our supporters. 

How to Submit?

Interested participants can submit online via this link.

Submission Deadline

The last date of submission is March 31, 2024.

Contact

Email: info[at]humanimaltrust[dot]org[dot]uk

Click here to view the official notification of Humanimal Trust Creative Awards 2024.