Are you a student at the UvA, do you know what is going on in the international community of the UvA and do you have a sharp pen? Then enter our columnist contest and win a permanent place as an international columnist for Folia.
What to do?
Write a column between 350 and maximum 500 words. Your column can be about anything, as long as the topic has a relation to the university and its international student community. For example, think about struggles in the Amsterdam room market, making friends in a new city and country, microdosing before exams, woke and diversity policies, the new dean of humanities or PPLE, sustainability, climate change or the social awkwardness of dating.
What does the winner get?
A permanent place on the website of Folia, the journalistic medium of the largest university in the Netherlands, and thus immediately a large stage. If you win, your column will appear every month on the homepage of Folia. Of course, Folia columnists will receive an appropriate compensation and, if necessary, editor’s support. Your column will be published in both English and Dutch, but you can write your column in English. The winning column will also be published in the Folia paper magazine at the end of August.
Folia exists since 1948 and has produced many well-known writers and journalists in the Netherlands. At the moment the editorial staff consists of a mix of young, starting journalists and more experienced people that make daily news, reports and backgrounds about the UvA in text, video, images and podcast!
Send your English column before May 18 to redactie@folia.nl. The editors will judge the columns. Both Dutch and international students can participate.