Registration is open, and participants are invited to the World Handwriting Contest 2024 by Handwriting Repair, New York. The last date for submitting entries is June 30, 2024.

Eligibility Criteria

Anyone in the world of any age may enter the World Handwriting Contest.

Their team of judges will evaluate your entry within ONE of the following age groups.

  • Children (age 7 and under)
  • Pre-Teens (ages 8 through 12)
  • Teens (ages 13 through 19)
  • Adults (ages 20 through 64)
  • Seniors (age 65 and over)

Contest Categories

Within each age group, the judges will sort submissions into two categories of handwriting.

  • Functional Handwriting: Functional handwriting strives for legibility, speed, and fluency without aiming at artistic effect. For this category, the judges will further separate entries as cursive, which joins 50% or more of its letters or manuscript printing, which joins fewer than half of its letters.
  • Artistic Handwriting: Artistic handwriting uses a monoline or calligraphy marker, pen, or brush along with decorative strokes, flourishes, and/or combinations of shading, hairlines and/or thick and thin strokes to create an artistic effect.

Awards

The World Handwriting Contest awards first and second prizes in each of the above categories and subcategories.

Prize-winners’ names and writing samples will be announced and posted on this website and their social media by October. Winners’ names & handwriting samples are displayed on this website for a full year.

How to Submit?

Interested candidates can apply individually for the competition through this link.

Note: Online entries must include a scan of your writing sample at 600 dpi or greater, attached as a gif, jpg, jpeg, png, or pdf file.

Deadline

June 30, 2024.

Contest Rules

One Entry per Year

To keep the contest open to the greatest possible number of entrants and winners, please submit only ONE (1) entry per year.

Past Winners

Past winners of the Contest may enter. However, to keep the contest continually open to aspiring hand writers, we ask any entrant who has won three prizes in the Contest to refrain from entering future World Handwriting Contests.

Lifetime Winner

Lifetime Winners’ names and winning samples will be permanently added to the Triple Crown Lifetime Winners’ page! Hail to all who earn their Triple Crown!

Entry Specifications

Paper

  • Use either lined or unlined paper, 8 1/2 x 11 inches or A4 size.
  • The written quote must fit on the front side of ONE sheet of paper. Allow at least a 1/2-inch margin on all sides of the quote.

Writing Instruments

  • Use any of the following writing instruments: ballpoint pen, fountain pen, felt/fiber tip marker, or calligraphy pen/brush. Use the same writing instrument throughout the entry.

Back Ink Only

  • Because we scan winning entries for display, please use only black ink and white or light-coloured paper, either plain or lined, with no preprinted pictures or decorations.

Info Required

On the reverse side of your entry, not on the front, or in the text of the email to which a scan of an entry is attached, write or type in English:

  • Your full name
  • Your full address
  • Your age on July 1 of the year in which you enter
  • Your phone number
  • Your email address (if any)

Students

Please give your school name, address, phone number, and email address, along with your own name and address. Your school will receive a notification if you win.

Send Your Best Work

Do NOT send rough drafts. If you make a mistake, start over: do NOT erase, cross out, “white out,” or cover up your errors. Visible erasures/cross-outs/cover-ups/”whiting out” will count more heavily against your work than the original errors themselves.

Click here to view the official notification of the World Handwriting Contest 2024 by Handwriting Repair, New York.