Feature Writing Award in memory of Roberta Gray
Tuesday 14th March

Dublin City University School of Communications and the Sunday Tribune are pleased to announce the Roberta Gray Features Award. This award has been established in memory of journalist Roberta Gray, a graduate of DCU and former Sunday Tribune columnist and feature writer, who died earlier this year.

The award will be presented for a feature written in the personal manner practised so skilfully by Roberta Gray during her tragically short career in journalism. The award-winner will have their feature published in the Sunday Tribune, and will receive a cash prize of €500 and a certificate.

The competition is open to students in DCU School of Communications, where Roberta Gray studied in 2001-2002.

The closing date for entries is 31 May and the award will be presented in late June.

The Sunday Tribune and Dublin City University School of Communications acknowledge with gratitude the contributions of Roberta Gray's friends and colleagues, and the support of her family, in establishing this award.

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Entries for the Roberta Gray Features Award should be based on description, observation or narrative

• - be based on description, observation or narrative
• - show a lively, personal engagement with the subject matter
• - deal with a place, a performance, a public event, a private incident or an issue – examples include a travel piece, an arts review, a personal opinion column
• - run to max. 1,000 words
• - be suitable for publication in the Sunday Tribune
• - submitted by 12 noon, 31 May 2006, to Roberta Gray Features Award, Sunday Tribune, Lr Baggot Street, Dublin 2