Harbingers’ Academy is proud to announce the third edition of The Harbinger Prize — and for the 2025 edition, we made it a real challenge! Participants will choose one of our four prompts to write their piece this year.

At Harbingers’ Academy, we designed two ‘careers’ — a four-year programme for writers and a two-year programme for editors — that take you from the beginning to the Editorial Board. As teenagers are busy, our online courses were designed to require one 50-minute session a week and a similar amount of time to complete assignments.

Harbingers’ Academy, Harbingers’ Magazine and The Oxford School for the Future of Journalism (OXSFJ) are committed to preventing and responding to risks of harm to and promoting the welfare of all children we work with.

The Harbingers’ Academy is a service provided by The Oxford School for the Future of Journalism Ltd (Registered with the Companies House for England and Wales under Company no: 13565860) whose registered office is at Suite 14, 266 Banbury Road, Summertown, Oxford, England, OX2 7DL, United Kingdom.