Young Norwich Creative Awards

Celebrating the best young talent in writing, visual arts, music and textiles.

IT’S TIME!!! ENTER NOW AND WIN £1000

We’re back! And we’re bigger and better than ever! Last year an incredible 220 of you entered the Young Norwich Creative Awards, up 25% on the year before.

We were blown away by the sheer variety and amount of talent on display and our amazing team of judges had to work VERY hard to choose their eventual highly commended, runners-up and winners in each category.

Every single entry was rated by at least 3 judges, and then another 3 judges for the finalists’ selections.

But we want to make the judges work even harder!

So, we’re asking you to unleash all your creative juices this year and encourage everyone you know to enter (so long as they’re 16-25 years old and either live, work or study in the fine city of Norwich).

As well as winning £1,000, the winner of each category gets to be mentored by someone in their field for a year and all finalists are invited to regular get-togethers, free events and training in things like how to build a great website, marketing and fundraising. It’s been inspiring to see so many amazing young people at these events; the energy in the room is second to none and several of them have agreed to meet up to do a great collab!

So, what are you waiting for? Entries open on April 24th.
Check back here for more details or email youngnorwichcreativesawards@gmail.com if you have
any questions.

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Hear from
last year's finalists

This is what some of our finalists said about last year and the incredible party we had at the Norwich Arts Centre:

“I would definitely recommend people entering the YNCA competition, as they really treasure and appreciate young people's work, giving them a chance to be recognised, to network and a beginning to something more."

– THE PRIZES –

Each award winner will recieve £1000 cash and a year’s mentoring from a major Norwich Arts Organisation.

Learn about the awards

£1000 + mentoring

About
YNCA

Young Norwich Creative Awards is a new programme of awards for creatives aged 16–25 in Norwich.

There are eight award categories:
Creative Writing, Visual Art & Photography, Fashion & Textiles, Music, Film, Performing & Production Arts, Animation & Games Art, Creative Entrepreneur.

Cash and mentoring are up for grabs so enter now and spread the word.