Past Winners of the Write to End Violence Against Women Awards
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2023 Winners of the Write to End Violence Against Women Awards
Best News
Author: Connie Dimsdale
Title: ‘I was groomed on Facebook’: Child abuse victims demand action to tackle targeting of girls online
Publication: The i Newspaper
Date: 28th April 2023
Special Recognition: Best Investigation
Authors: Rosamund Urwin, Charlotte Wace and Paul Morgan-Bentley
Title: Russell Brand accused of rape, sexual assaults and abuse
Date: 16th September 2023
Best Feature
Author: Harriet Hall
Title: The rise of the mega misogynists
Publication: Cosmopolitan
Date: 22nd November 2023
Best Opinion and Comment
Author: Daniella Theis
Title: Victim blaming deeply affects survivors of sexual assault
Publication: The Herald
Date: 12th June 2023
Best Blog and Self-Published
Author: Estelle Uba
Title: ‘Missing White Woman’ syndrome: Is the media to blame for racial bias in police searches?
Publication: Gen-Z Talks
Date: 9th April 2023
Broadcast: Experts’ Pick
By James Diamond
Planet Radio/Greatest Hits Radio/Bauer Media
Wooden Spoon
Black and minoritised victims and survivors of gender-based violence: invisibilised in the media
2022 Winners of the Write to End Violence Against Women Awards
Best Piece - News
Author: Marion Scott
Publication: The Sunday Post
Date: 27.03.2022
Best Piece - Features
Author: Dania Akkad
Title:After #WhereisNoof, Qatari women question how safe they really are
Publication: Middle East Eye
Date: 02.02.2022
Best Piece - Opinion and Comment
Author: Anna Moore
Title: Frank Mullane: how the murder of his sister and nephew changed his life and purpose
Publication: The Guardian
Date: 27.10.2021
Best Piece - Blog and Self-Published
Author: Winnie M Li
Title: The Emotional Labour of Dealing with the Media
Publication: On Road Media
Date: 05.07.2022
Wooden Spoon
Reporting that is sympathetic to the perpetrator and fails to name the crime committed.
2021 winners of the Write To End Violence Against Women Public Recognition Awards
Alan Caton
The Scotsman, 20 October 2021
Shruti Jain
Lockdown raising risk to BAME women’s safety and wellbeing
STV, 28th February 2021
Caitlin Logan
Tory MSP asked 11 questions on abortion in a month
The Ferret, 22 December 2020
Iris Pase
Why do women need to die before we listen?
Bella Caledonia, 13th March 2021
Karen Roberts
Demand for domestic abuse support soared after pandemic snatched away victims’ hopes of freedom
Press and Journal, 16 June 2021
Marion Scott & Craig McDonald
No more: Women demand action as 7,000 domestic violence cases languish in court limbo
Sunday Post, 3 October 2021
Kirsty Strickland
It’s hard not to think of women affected by ‘rape clause’ when reading about misuse of taxpayer cash
The Courier, 26 July 2021
Alex Watson
I’ve finally done my womanly duty and fallen in line
Press and Journal, July 9, 2021
2020 winners of the Write To End Violence Against Women Public Recognition Awards
Dr Kim Barker & Dr Olga Jurasz
Misogynistic Harassment: Advancing Scots Law?
The University of Stirling Policy Blog , 27 Jan 20
Catherine Deveney
Prostitute or exploited child? Our language betrays Dickensian attitudes to victimhood
Press and Journal, 24 Jan 20
Kate Hodal
Why coronavirus has placed millions more girls at risk of FGM
The Guardian, 16 Jun 20
Liam Kirkcaldy
'Nowhere to go': How No Recourse to Public Funds is leaving women experiencing abuse without support
Holyrood, 22 Jul 20
Caitlin Logan
Focusing on men who kill women leaves little room for their victims.
The National, 1 Nov 20
Hannah Price
Coercive control: 'I was 16 and thought it was normal'
The BBC Three, 6 Nov 20
Kirsty Strickland
When a man strangles a woman it is a demonstration of control, not a loss of it’
The Scotsman, 30 Oct 20
Laura Waddell
1,035 reasons why the MeToo movement has not gone too far
The Scotsman, 9 Jan 20
Wooden Spoon Award
Harmful and inaccurate language to describe childhood abuse.
2019 Write to End Violence Against Women Awards
Best Piece - News, Sponsored by NUJ Scotland
Karin Goodwin for The Ferret and the Sunday National, "Call to Review Domestic Murders to help prevent further deaths".
Best Piece - Feature, Sponsored by NUJ Glasgow
Mary McCool, for BBC Scotland, for "Edinburgh hip hop artist raps about rape to help survivors heal".
Best Piece - Opinion and Comment, Supported by our media partner the Daily Record
Dani Garavelli, for the Scotsman, for "Marshae Jones case shows US is close to dystopian nightmare".
Best Piece - Blog and Self-Published, sponsored by the University of Strathclyde
Elspeth Wilson, for the Engender Blog, for "Why Contraception Needs a Me Too movement"
Gender Equality Award - Women and Sport
Laura Waddell, for the Scotsman, for "Scotland Women ‘really shake them up’ and may even win World Cup".
Wooden Spoon
"Sex Game Gone Wrong" as a defense for murder.
2018 Write to End Violence Against Women Awards
Best Article – News Reporting, Sponsored by the Daily Record
Peter Swindon, The Herald
Students fear ‘academic consequences’ if they report sex attacks on campus
Best Article – News Features, Sponsored by NUJ Scotland and NUJ Glasgow Branch
Dani Garavelli, The Scotsman
Insight: The Edinburgh clinic helping sex workers stay safe
Best Blog or Comment, Sponsored by the University of Strathclyde
Lesley McMillan & Deborah White, Gender Politics at Edinburgh
Technologising Rape and Sexual Assault: Can we really innovate the problem away?
Year of Young People Award, Sponsored by the Young Women’s Movement
Rosie Hilton, The Student Newspaper
The everyday resistance of surviving sexual violence
2017 Write to End Violence Against Women Awards
Best Article – News
Annie Brown, Daily Record
Island rape victims forced to endure second hell due to lack of local forensic facilities
Best Article – Feature
Vicky Allan, The Sunday Herald
Domestic abuse: This article will upset you but it is vital that you read it
Best Blog and Comment
Talat Yaqoob, Women 5050
“Just Ignore It”
Best article – Student and Young Person
Polly Smythe and Niamh Anderson, The Student
Domestic abuse is happening at university. So why don’t we talk about it?
Gender Equality Award: Creative Writing
Erin Kelly
3 Poems; Silence, Deep Water, Survive
Read Erin's wonderful poems on page 63 – 65 of our booklet.
2016 Write to End Violence Against Women Awards
Best Article – News
Libby Brooks, The Guardian
‘Sexist hate crimes given second-class status, says senior Tory MP’
Best Article – Comment & Feature
Vicky Allan, The Herald
India - in the land where women are deemed worthless
Best Blog
Claire Heuchan, Sister Outrider
‘Self-Care or Speaking Out? A Black Feminist Dilemma’
Best article – Student and Young Person
Lucy Miller, Glasgow Guardian
‘Whose streets? Our streets!’ – How Glasgow reclaimed the night
Gender Equality Awards: Women And Migration
Ferret journalists; Rebecca Omonira-Oyekanmi, Lyra McKee, Karin Goodwin, The Ferret
Domestic violence: ‘Home Office must act to save lives’
Wooden Spoon
This year, the Wooden Spoon was awarded to the them of ‘invisible women’. Namely, the media’s tendency to neglect to mention the woman in cases of a family killing and instead focus the majority of coverage on the perpetrator. This theme was motivated by two instances of women being killed by their partner; Claire Hart in Spalding, England and Clodagh Hawe in County Cavan, Ireland. In both instances the husband killed their wife, children and then themselves.
2015 Write to End Violence Against Women Awards
Best Article - News
Judith Duffy
Scottish women taking on the sexist curse of street harassment
Sunday Herald
Best Article – Comment & Features
Alex Renton
Rape, child abuse and Prince Charles’s former school
The Observer
Best Blog
Isabelle Kerr
"Fifty Shades of Grey" Saviour of Relationships or Abuser's Handbook
Glasgow Rape Crisis Blog
Best Student Article
Eve Livingston
Personal blog - evelivingston.wordpress.com
Gender Equality Award Sponsored by Women 5050
Gina Davidson
Let's Hear it for the Smart Girls
Edinburgh Evening News
Wooden Spoon
This year's Wooden Spoon Went Collectively to "Headlines". A lot of reporting about good violence against women is sold short by headlines that seem designed to capture readers’ attention in the most graphic way possible.
2014 Write to End Violence Against Women Awards
Best Blog
Abuse Doesn’t Exist in a Vacuum: Rotherham Is Not About Race by Elli Wilson
Best Student Article
What’s next for Edinburgh Uni? Talk straight, not dirty by Laura Anne Brown
Best Article
Girls are taught young that violence towards them is normal by Nancy Lombard
2013 Write To End Violence Against Women Awards
Best Blog
One Billion Rising while another one falls: Media treatment of Reeva Steenkamp - Eve Livingston
Best Article
Why was the sheriff in the Walker case so puzzled? - Anni Donaldson
Best Student Article
Forgotten Brides: Life after Forced Marriage - Lauren Wilks
