Source Writing Prize 2026

Source magazine cover Winter 2025/26 © Source

Source are always looking for new writers to contribute to their publication. If you’ve not written for Source before, you are invited to send Source an article. The winning entry will receive £500 / 570 Euro and will either be published in Source or you will be commissioned to write an article for them in the future. All short listed entries will also be considered for publication or for future commissions. (paid)

Most of the writing in Source takes a specific form: book reviews, exhibition reviews or texts introducing sets of pictures, so these would be good models to follow. But we are also interested in others forms of writing so if you want to submit something in a different form then please do. Our interest in photography is not only about the photographs that appear in books and exhibitions; it touches most aspects of life and we like to read about those encounters too. This could be an article about a particular photograph of historical, aesthetic or biographical interest to you. It could be about some cultural or philosophical aspect of photography. It could be something we’ve not thought about. We enjoy writing that is thoughtful, funny, well researched and surprising. It could be personal or dispassionate. It could be fun, or deadly serious. It might shed new light on something we thought we knew or introduce us to something we’ve never heard of before.

To find out more please go to the direct link.