RPS Young Classical Writers Prize: Application Form

In spending time on your application, we advise you save your answers (particularly for the questions requiring longer answers) in a word document or equivalent on your computer in case of any technical glitch.

Your application will only be submitted once you have completed all obligatory fields in the form and clicked the ‘Submit' button at the end

First Name

Last Name

Date of birth

Date

Your age at the closing date

Your contact details

Your Address

Address 1

Address 2

City

Postal Code

County

Phone number

Mobile preferred - please don't enter with characters or spaces

If you are under the age of 18, please also supply contact details for a parent/guardian.

Parent/Guardian First Name

Parent/Guardian Last Name

Parent/Guardian Phone Number

Mobile preferred - please don't enter with characters or spaces

Parent/Guardian Email Address

Other

In no more than 16 words, please summarise your musical and educational circumstances.

Example 1: Bristol University graduate (BA Music), flautist, currently working with local music service; Example 2: Sixth former, composer, guitarist

Beyond the basic info above, in no more than three sentences, give us a picture of your musical passions or any musical endeavours you are pursuing at present.

You do not need to tell us here anything you have already stated in the form above.

Tell us the title of your article.

What is your article about?

State here in as simply and in as few words as you can, what your written piece is about, such as the composer and name of the piece you have written about, or a very brief subject, eg. 'Errollyn Wallen's Piano Concerto' or 'The power of classical music to support mental health.'

submit article

Submit your article here. This should be a PDF and the filename should simply be your forename and surname.

Please carefully read through your application and check you have filled in all fields correctly before submitting. When you click submit, a successful submission will take you to a page confirming this.

If the application form page refreshes after you click submit, this means you have incorrectly filled in a field. Please take time to go back and make sure you have filled in everything correctly. Common application form errors are:

you have other characters such as brackets, spaces or plus signs in the 'Phone Number' field. This should contain numbers only.
you have exceeded the character count in a longer question.
there is a compulsory check box which you have not ticked.

Please tick:

I confirm that a) I agree to the terms of entry, b) what I have submitted is correct to the best of my knowledge, and c) I have successfully uploaded my article using the button above.