​The Palgrave Prize

The Palgrave Prize is awarded each year for the best paper delivered at the conference by a student member of PALA. It is judged on the basis of written versions of the papers by the Chair of PALA and another person nominated by the Chair.
Winner of the 2021 Palgrave Prize 
Naomi Adam, ​University of Liverpool: ‘[P]eople will wonder why this black woman’: Double Consciousness, Controlling Images and Intradiegetic Recentering in Marlon James’ (2014) A Brief History of Seven Killings.

Paper presented at PALA 2021 at the University of Nottingham, UK.
We are grateful to Palgrave for offering the winner of the Palgrave Prize a choice of books up to the value of £150 from all titles in the  Language and Linguistics section of Palgrave's website (unless they are out of print or print on demand). 
Previous winners of the prize for best paper include:
  • 2019 Fransina Stradling (Liverpool Univeristy, UK)
  • 2018 Tess Lankhuizen (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam)
  • 2017  Matthew Collins (Birmingham University, UK)
  • 2016  Rachel Hanna (Queen's University, Belfast, UK)
  • 2015  Eri Shigematsu (Hiroshima University, Japan)
  • 2014  No prize awarded/prize temporarily suspended
  • 2013  Zoe McCaw  (Queen's University, Belfast, UK)
  • 2012  Rong Rong (Lancaster University, UK)
  • 2011  Zsófia Demjén (Lancaster University, UK) 
  • 2010  Clara Neary (Queen's University, Belfast, UK)
  • 2009  Sara Whiteley (University of Sheffield, UK)
  • 2008  Yu-fang Ho (Lancaster University, UK)
Guidelines
  • Papers may include changes to accommodate the comments received during or after the conference, but must be based on the paper that was given there.
  • Papers already published elsewhere  will not be considered for the prize.
  • The papers should not be longer than 6000 words, and should include full references.
  • Entries are welcomed from all postgraduate students who have not been awarded their PhD by the time of the relevant conference. They should be members of PALA (which is free to students) at the time of the conference.

The paper should be sent in an email attachment to the PALA webmaster before 31st December following the conference.

Please see the full proceedings guidelines before submitting.

Palgrave Prize submissions will be included in the on-line conference proceedings.​