The Monthly International Essay Contest is an attempt to identify good writers. Essay writing is an art, which brings out your writing skill. It is an art, through which you pen down your knowledge and perception about a given topic.
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Mononomosumi is an ISO-certified record holder and highly acclaimed non-commercial Edu-tech Platform, that brings together technology to the education sector and provides requisite support to students, writers, and school administrations. Officially launched in May 2018 with the intent to make writing-related writing extracurricular activities accessible through technology-driven solutions.
About the International Essay Contest
With a carefully chosen educational topic, we encourage participants to develop not only the skills of penning down their thoughts but also creativity, research, and organization skills. We believe in the enrichment of society by empowering individuals with constructive thinking to create a positive ambience for overall societal growth.
Monomousumi has never charged any money from our students who participate in an International essay competition every month. The whole idea of this setup is to be a platform where writers of all age groups from across the world can share their opinions on different topics. This gives them a sense of global citizenship and where they stand globally in terms of understanding a particular topic.
The announcement of winners is made in the first week of every month. Here is the list of winners of the competitions held in previous months
Essay Theme for September – 2026
Essay Theme: Lifestyle
The example of essay titles are:
- How remote work and flexible hours are redefining modern lifestyle
- Re-evaluating ambition, rest, and personal worth
- The decline of local community spaces and its effect on loneliness
- Does frequent travel broaden the mind or distract from daily reality?
- Is completely disconnecting realistic, or should we focus on intentional screen usage?
- Do structured habits truly set the tone for success? etc.
These are only examples. ..
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Essays will be judged on Research Depth (40%), Clarity & Structure (30%), Analytical Thinking (20%), and Grammar & Formatting (10%).
The essay MUST include significant facts that are relatively unknown or uncommon. For this a through research needs to be done from different sources. Do not take the help of AI tools to write, as it wont help and your essay will be rejected straight. The goal is for the reader to gain new knowledge about the character. Participants are encouraged to include:
Participants can frame essay in this theme and choose title accordingly
Note: The participants should complete research about the topic and write the essay in their language. The language should be simple and easy to understand yet informative. Do not write in haste. Devote time to the topic and jot down all the relevant information. These topics will enrich your knowledge and be helpful for your general knowledge. So, do complete research before writing the essay in your language. Copied essays will not be evaluated. Participants can write essays and submit them before the 25th of every month. Participants can create their titles based on the given theme.
Writing Style
Participant should write in their language without copying from Google. The participant should convincingly present his/her essay so that it does not look like mundane article created by easily available data from the internet. The essay should be more than 1000 words preferably.
Essay Submission Method
Submit your essay online through this link
https://weavermag.com/essay-contest/public/
Important Deadlines
Last date of Submission: 25th of September 2026
Result announcement: On or before 25th October 2026
Result announcement: Through this link
Judgment Criteria
All the essays will be judged based on your logic, literature survey, writing style, innovation, structure, etc. Participants should write point-wise with proper logic. We appreciate simple ideas but always discourage copied content even though it looks attractive.
We will not judge copied or AI generated essays it will be rejected during the screening process only and no certificate will be issued. The essay should bring out all the details about a particular topic. Participants should do a lot of research before writing the essay.
This will enhance the knowledge of the participants in the specific field. Participants are free to create their structure by providing all the information about the topic without copying from the internet. Take the help of Google to understand the topic and to enhance knowledge, but DO NOT SIMPLY COPY JUST FROM THE INTERNET.
Communication Mode
Only communication is through email. Considering a large number of participants, we can not take up calls regarding your queries related to essay submission. Please read the FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS by CLICKING HERE
If still any doubt exists, please feel free to contact us only through email at essay.monomousumi@gmail.com. Have patience after posting your queries. Your queries will be answered by one of our team members at the earliest.
Guidelines
Language: English/Hindi/Bengali Nationality: Any Categories: Two ( Junior & Senior Category) (a) Below 18 years old* (Junior Category) * DOB is must (b) Above 18 years old (Senior Category). There is no upper age limit Registration: No registration is required. No fee is required. submission through only the Essay Submission module (click on it)
Important Rules
- The essay should be MINIMUM 1500 WORDS . There is no maximum word count.
- The submitted essay should be plagiarism free/no copy from the internet/unique writing and should not be AI/chatGpt generated. . Please check your essay in this link plagiarism checking tool before sending it to us and submit the screenshot of the plagiarism report. The plagiarized essay will not be accepted for the contest. This is to encourage participants to write their essays. We highly discourage copying. SO NO CERTIFICATE FOR COPIED OR AI GENERATED ESSAYS.
- Age proof may be asked for the junior category participants, if required. The name of the school, school website, or email is not mandatory but you are encouraged to provide the email address of the principal/administration. Our team will inform the school authorities about the result if the participant is judged the winner or did outstanding in the contest.
- You should write your name, age, city, phone number, email, and photo (optional) in your entry at the very beginning before you start writing an essay.
- You can participate every month.
- Participants are encouraged to write in such a way as to avoid writing “I” or personal experiences unless the topic is such that they are compelled to write your experience.
- The decision of the Jury member is the FINAL and no queries related to the result will be entertained
- The deadline for submission is the 25th of every month
- For those participants, who (only those) do not have access to a computer/laptop, they can EMAIL (essay.monomousumi@gmail.com) handwritten essays following all the rules mentioned above.
- Hand-written essays will not be published but will be eligible for the contest. They are equally eligible but the essay will not be published. So, if you do not have a computer or laptop, you can just type in mobile part-wise. Handwritten essays should be considered as the LAST OPTION.
- Selected essays will be published on the website with the name, photo, and bio of the participants without the need for prior permission.
- Sending your essay to us gives us the authority to publish it from our side anywhere, online or in digital magazines. Once the essay is published in our platforms, it can not be deleted. Participants can inform if they want their name in the essay or not. It means participants can withdraw their name from the essay but the essay can not be removed once published.
Declaration of Result
The result is declared in the first week of every month through this link and the certificates can be downloaded using this link https://weavermag.com/essay-contest/public/result instantly after the announcement of the result. The certificates will be issued to only the eligible candidates. To see the previous winners, click here
Prizes and Rewards
First Prize: Gold Medal (for both the categories- Junior/Senior separately)
Second Prize: Silver Medal (for both the categories- Junior/Senior separately)
Third Prize: Bronze Medal (for both the categories- Junior/Senior separately)
These prizes are given based on the judgement given by jury members
Apart from the above three prizes, “Popular Essay Awards” will be given to three winners based solely on the number of visits their essay receives. The cash prizes are:
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For winners in India: ₹1250, ₹750, and ₹500 (INR)
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For winners outside India: $15, $10, and $5.
The winners are determined only by the number of visits, not by judges’ scores. The minimum unique IP address visit required is 250. If this criteria is not filled, there will be no cash prize. This prize will be announced in the subsequent month. For example, if the essay is submitted for the essay contest for the month of November, the essay will be published tentatively before 15th December. Results on the basis of judges marks will be announced tentatively on 20th December. But the popular article award will be announced along with the result of December tentatively on 20th January, so that the participants get ample time to share their essay to the peers for getting more traction and visits. This award is being started from the month of November 2025 essay contest. Therefore the first three winners will be announced around 20th January 2026. The cash prize and e-certificate will be given away within one week of the result announcement.
Other Finalists: eBook and Gift Coupons/Discount Vouchers
- The essays will be grouped as First, Second, Third, Other Finalist and not worth mentioning according to the marks given by the judges to each of the essays. Only selected essays among these will be published on the website and the respective links will be conveyed to the participants through mail.
- All the other eligible participants will get the “Certificate of Participation” as a token of appreciation and they will be getting a 50% discount if they wish to buy any of our published books or our customized pen is shown in this link. Selling is not our business. Please do not make an impression that we are here to sell and make income from the participants.
- The certificate can be used by the students as an accolade under “Extra Curricular Activity”.
- International winners (winners from countries other than India) will be awarded only e-medal. However, if the international winners wish to pay the delivery charges, we can dispatch the respective physical prizes. Other participants from India will receive the physical prizes at their address and no payment is asked.
- A few selected articles will be included in the Digital Magazine: “Weavers” and Upcoming Books.
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For Interested Sponsors
Those corporate houses who wish to sponsor this International Essay Competition may contact us. We can accept Physical Prizes, Cash prizes, Gift Coupons, or anything you wish to give away as a prize to the winners. Monomousumi does not seek any benefits. The corporate houses will be suitably acknowledged by advertising their brands through our website.
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