Welcome to the Shine School Media Awards!
The Shine School Media Awards is a free national competition that rewards a diversity of talent from secondary schools across the UK who work on the writing, editing, design and fund-raising for a school newspaper, magazine or multimedia project such as a podcast or digital publication.
The annual culmination of each year’s Shine Awards is a gala ceremony held in central London every summer with student workshops and incredible guest speakers.
The significant benefits of starting a Shine project include an enrichment of the school curriculum, an incentive to creativity and the chance for pupils to win national recognition and in the process enrich their CV and applications for university or college.
The Shine Awards is an endeavour of The Stationers’ Foundation, the charitable arm of The Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers, one of the UK’s ancient livery companies.
Latest news
17th March 2026
The Yarm School team on launching in style and personal stories
This week on ‘Ask the Winner,’ I’m talking to Sarah and Denai from Yarm School in North Yorkshire – lead editors of The Dovecot magazine’s fifth edition, which swept the board at the 2025 Shine Awards.
The Dovecote started five years ago in 2020, founded by Katie Hunt. “It’s a good way of showing the talent that our student body has,” Sarah explains. “It contains art, nonfiction, fiction, travel writing, poetry. It’s just a way that students can express something that matters to them in different ways.”
Our entrants speak...
“Creating a student publication is a wonderful way to involve pupils across a school and enable them to express themselves and be part of a community. It is then even more rewarding to be involved with the Shine Awards which celebrates their success and offers inspirational advice from industry professionals.”
Craig Cole, Head of Graphics, Photography & Printing Reed’s School, Surrey
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