THE PRIZE
The Daniel Singer Millenium Prize Foundation is offering a $10,000 prize for a published article about the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
This dreadful conflict has divided the world including those of us on the left. We therefore welcome entries that help us think about the war's broad issues.
Topics may include self-determination for Ukraine; changes to the global and regional power balance; the effects of the fighting on the lives of both Ukrainians and Russians; how the war is reshaping both governments; how the war may limit or expand post-war possibilities for working people in both Ukraine and Russia; and the conditions of a just peace ending the war between Russia and Ukraine.
Daniel Singer was an idealistic socialist with a courageous respect for the facts on the ground. His journalism was descriptive, analytical and elegant. These are the qualities The Daniel Singer Foundation hopes to honor with the Daniel Singer Millenium Prize.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Essays must have been published in English any time after the invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
Essays may be submitted by authors, editors, readers or publishers.
Maximum length of the submission is 8,000 words.
Submissions received after the deadline will not be considered.
Submissions must include a short (500 word maximum) statement explaining why the piece merits winning the prize, a link to the published essay, and a copy of the essay attached as a PDF.
Each contestant may only submit once. Coauthored submissions may only be submitted with full consent from all authors and that submission counts as each individual coauthors’ only opportunity to enter the contest; neither author may submit another entry independently.
The deadline for submissions is March 1, 2024 11:59 PM US Eastern Time Zone.
Please email submissions to prize@danielsinger.org.
Judging: Contributions will be reviewed by a panel of Daniel Singer Millenium 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 June, 2024 and recognized at a public event and panel discussion organized by the Singer Prize Foundation in the fall of 2024.
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, Tribune and was The Nation’s European correspondent for twenty years. 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 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 Millenium Prize Foundation was founded in 2000 and has awarded fourteen prizes. We are relaunching with the 2024 prize after a pandemic related hiatus.
PAST WINNERS
The last year the prize was awarded was in 2018.
2018: Sarah Mason, “High Score, Low Pay: Why the Gig Economy Loves Gamification”
2017: Cedric Johnson, “The Panthers Can’t Save Us Now”
2016: Sarah Leonard, “My Generation’s Best Chance is Socialism” and Glenn Greenwald,
“Democrats, Trump, and the Ongoing, Dangerous Refusal to Learn the Lesson of Brexit.”
There was no winner in 2014 or 2015.
2013: James Kilgore, “On Returning to Where the Heart Is.”
There was no winner in 2012.
2011, Richard Swift, “Preparing the Ground.”
2010: Sheila Cohen, “Starting Over From Scratch: A Plea for ‘Radical Reform’ of Our Movement.”