Since 2022, the European Society for Periodical Studies (ESPRit) has awarded the ESPRit Prize to recognize outstanding contributions to the field of European periodical studies. This biennial honorary award of €500 celebrates projects that have had a significant impact on the study of periodicals, fostering international collaboration and advancing research beyond national boundaries.

Who is Eligible?

Eligible projects include, but are not limited to:

✔️ Monographs and edited collections
✔️ Exhibitions and reference works
✔️ Serial publications and journal editorships
✔️ Websites and databases related to Periodical Studies

In the spirit of ESPRit, projects are not limited to the English language, but they must demonstrate a strong influence on European periodical studies beyond their country of origin.

Nominations & Submission

Projects must have been completed within the two years preceding the submission deadline. Nominees do not need to be ESPRit members, but their work should align with ESPRit’s scope (see here).

Nominations can be made by:
✔️ The project’s creator(s)
✔️ Fellow researchers nominating others
✔️ Jury members proposing eligible works

To submit a nomination, nominators must provide a 500-word proposal outlining the project and its impact. The next submission deadline would be at the beginning of 2026. Proposals should be sent to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Award Ceremony & Benefits

The ESPRit Prize is presented at the Annual Meeting, with winners invited to showcase their projects at the next ESPRit conference and on the ESPRit website. In addition to the monetary award, winners receive free ESPRit membership for one year.

For more details or to submit a nomination, contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

We are pleased to announce the winner of the 2024 ESPRit Prize for digital projects and/or print research on periodicals in Europe published in 2022/2023.

Congratulations to Marysa Demoor, Cedric Van Dijck and Birgit Van Puymbroeck, editors of The Edinburgh Companion to First World War Periodicals (Edinburgh University Press, 2023), and to all contributing authors.

The ESPRit Prize committee was unanimous in their decision, calling the winning volume a “genuine tour de force”. The committee was “impressed by its vast scope and by the diversity of angles (critical, theoretical, thematic, national, linguistic) from which the different chapters consider the First World War press” and praised “the richness of scholarship produced, from its compelling attention to different critical methodologies, materialities of the press, genres, events and global perspectives”.

Joint Winners of the 2022 ESPRit Prize

The European Society for Periodical Studies (ESPRit) is pleased to announce the joint winners of the 2022 ESPRit Prize, recognizing outstanding contributions to the field of European periodical studies:

Agents of Change: Women Editors and Socio-Cultural Transformation in Europe, 1710-1920 / WeChangEd (www.wechanged.ugent.be)
Created by: Marianne Van Remoortel and team, Universiteit Gent

Serial Forms: The Unfinished Project of Modernity, 1815-1848
Author: Clare Pettitt, King’s College London (Oxford University Press)

Congratulations to the winners!