Christmas Story Competition

Reflect on the joy of the holidays by writing a Christmas story. You could be eligible to win a €100 voucher!

Competition rules

Deadline

From November 6 to December 4, 2024.

Participants

All members of the UIC Barcelona university community can apply individually.

Theme

Christmas story; The common thread of the story must be Christmas. However, this year we added a few requirements:

• It has to have happy connotations.
• It has to be related to family.
• One work can be submitted per person.

Language

Catalan or Spanish

Registration

Fill out this form and upload your story.

Presentation of the story

To send us the story you must send it to the email cultura@uic.es. The format must be:

• word
• Times 12. Line spacing 1.5
• Document name: title of the work

* The lack of any of these data or non-compliance with any of the requirements will result in the automatic disqualification of the work.

Extension

A maximum of 300 words

Awards

There will be one winner for each campus, who will receive a 100 euro voucher to spend at FNAC.

In the event of a tie, Student Services reserves the right to decide who will be the winner.

Winners of the 2023 Christmas Story Competition

• Barcelona Campus: Nicolau Huistra Puig, 2nd year Audiovisual Communication student.
• Sant Cugat Campus: Adriana Hontoria Astell, 4th year Bioengineering student.

Winners of the 2022 Christmas Story Competition

• Barcelona Campus: Pablo Prats de Arquer, 1st year Advertising and Public Relations student.
• Sant Cugat Campus: Javier Canela Ortiz, 3rd year Medicine student.

Winners of the 2021 Christmas Story Competition

• Barcelona Campus: Wendy Yohanna Cedeno Mendoza, 5th year Humanities, Cultural Studies and Law student.
• Sant Cugat Campus: Mar Llobet Hernández, 4th year Psychology student.

Winners of the 2019-2020 Christmas Story Competition

• Barcelona Campus: Adriana Monjas Alberdi, first-year humanities and cultural studies student.
• Sant Cugat Campus: Karla Beatriz Guzmán Hidalgo, second-year nursing student.

2023 Anthology

2022 Anthology

2021 Anthology

2020 Anthology

2019 Anthology

2018 Anthology

Anyone directly involved in the organisation of this competition will not be able to participate.
UIC Barcelona reserves the right to accept and publish texts submitted as part of the competition.