The 2026 Daniel Singer Prize
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
October 22, 2025
The Daniel Singer Millennium Prize Foundation is offering a $10,000 prize for a published article addressing the following:
Why and how have ethnonationalism and anti-immigrant politics become a central response to the crises of inequality, climate change, capitalism, and war? What forms of resistance have emerged?
We will consider essays that explore these questions in the context of any one state, or internationally.
Daniel Singer was a committed socialist with a courageous respect for the facts on the ground. His journalism was descriptive, analytical, elegantly written, and accessible for a popular audience. These are the qualities the Singer Foundation hopes to honor with the Daniel Singer Prize.
Criteria:
Essays must have been published between January 1, 2025, and February 28, 2026.
If published in a language other than English, the submitter must submit an English translation, which will be considered as submitted.
Essays may be submitted by authors, editors, publishers, or readers.
The maximum length of the submission is 8,000 words, including footnotes.
Submission must include a motivation and author bio in English not exceeding 500 words, and a URL link to the published essay.
No individual may submit more than one of their own pieces. Coauthored submissions may only be submitted with full consent from all authors, and such a submission counts as each individual coauthor’s only opportunity to enter the contest; neither author may submit another entry independently.
Submissions of essays to be published after February 28, 2026, and any submission received after the deadline will not be considered.
The deadline for submissions is March 1, 2026 11:59 PM US Eastern Time Zone.
If you have questions about the prize or the nomination process, please write to admin [at] danielsingerprize [dot] org.
Judging: Contributions will be reviewed by a panel of Daniel Singer Millennium Prize Foundation board members. All decisions made by the judges regarding the winners of the contest are final.
Award: The winning entry will be awarded a $10,000 cash prize. The awardee will be notified in spring 2026 and recognized at a public event and panel discussion organized by the Singer Prize Foundation in the fall of 2026. Only the author of the winning entry will be notified directly. To receive the announcement of the outcome of the contest, please subscribe to our email list.
About Daniel Singer: Daniel Singer (1926–2000) was a Polish Jew, a French intellectual, and an international journalist. In English, he wrote for The Economist, The New Statesman, and Tribune, and was The Nation’s Europe correspondent for twenty years. You can find some of his writing here. He also wrote in French, Russian, Polish, and Italian. In whatever language, Singer was a passionate and thoughtful socialist.
Singer’s was not only the socialism of bare necessities like bread, land, and peace but the socialism of supposed luxuries like democracy and egalitarianism. His socialist egalitarianism, not to be confused with “leveling” or “uniformity,” would expand human existence; socialist democracy would expand from choice at the ballot box to democracy on the campus, democracy in the neighborhood, democracy in the office and on the shop floor.
The Daniel Singer Millennium Prize Foundation was founded in 2000 and has awarded sixteen prizes. Past prize winners are listed here.