Newnham College Woolf Essay Prize（纽纹汉学院伍尔夫论文奖）是英国一项面向高中12年级女性学生的年度竞赛。是一项声誉极高，认可度高的竞赛。该奖项以20世纪著名女性主义者和作家弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫（Virginia Woolf）命名。

竞赛要求学生提交一篇关于伍尔夫生平和作品的选题论文。每年的主题不同，评审委员会由该领域的专家组成。该奖项旨在鼓励年轻女性接触伍尔夫的作品，发展她们的批判性思维和写作能力。获奖者将获得一笔现金奖励，并且她们的论文将在纽纹汉学院的网站上发表。

2024年

1) “It was absurd to blame any class or any sex, as a whole. Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.”

Evaluate the role of the individual and the collective in the emancipation of groups facing oppression, using at least two detailed examples.

2) “That woman, then, who was born with a gift of poetry in the sixteenth century, was an unhappy woman, a woman at strife against herself.”

Compare and contrast the historical and contemporary challenges faced by female authors.*

3) “For genius like Shakespeare's is not born among labouring, uneducated, servile people. […] It is not born to-day among the working classes.”

Investigate the role of class in the journey to becoming a writer.*

*Any detailed examples used should not be core A-level or IB texts

2023年

1) “She had to work on equal terms with men. She made, by working very hard, enough to live  on. The importance of that fact outweighs anything that she actually wrote, […]”.

Discuss the significance of the struggle for financial independence and equality on the place of  women in academia or any other profession, either historical or contemporary.

2) “It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men […] considering the vastness and  variety of the world, how should we manage with one [sex] only?”

Using at least two examples, discuss the impact and value of the voices of women and/or gender non-conforming individuals to the literary world.

3) “The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than  the story of that emancipation itself”.

Analyse the role and responsibility of men in combatting gender inequality in a specific place and  historical period.