Competitions
Illustrator Oliver Jeffers shares advice for Big Issue's Christmas Kids Cover Competition: 'We're all artists'
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Illustrator Oliver Jeffers shares advice for Big Issue's Christmas Kids Cover Competition: 'We're all artists'
Entries are flooding in for our Kids Christmas Cover Competition – so we've extended the deadline! Find out how to enter our 2023 competition below
Big Issue's Changemakers of 2024: Nominate a group or person making the world a better place
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Big Issue's Changemakers of 2024: Nominate a group or person making the world a better place
Big Issue's festive Christmas Kids Cover Competition is back for 2023
![Previous winners of the kids cover competition](https://www.bigissue.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/1587_Kids-cover-comp_hero.jpg?w=768)
Big Issue's festive Christmas Kids Cover Competition is back for 2023
Win a collection of Nick Cave artwork!
Win a collection of Nick Cave artwork!
Win the best kids books of 2022
Win the best kids books of 2022
How to win free tickets to see Jess Phillips MP in conversation with Big Issue editor Paul McNamee
![Jess Phillips](https://www.bigissue.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Jess-Phillips-1-hero.jpg?w=768)
How to win free tickets to see Jess Phillips MP in conversation with Big Issue editor Paul McNamee
Enter now for a chance to win a spa voucher for the Corinthia hotel in London!
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Enter now for a chance to win a spa voucher for the Corinthia hotel in London!
Get that festive feeling with The Big Issue's Christmas cover competition
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Get that festive feeling with The Big Issue's Christmas cover competition
Nominate your hero to win a free subscription for kids' magazine Scoop!
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Nominate your hero to win a free subscription for kids' magazine Scoop!
WIN: Chat with Louis Theroux or meet Joe Cornish in The Big Raffle!
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WIN: Chat with Louis Theroux or meet Joe Cornish in The Big Raffle!
Five tips for would-be children's illustrators by Puffin Books' Dapo Adeola
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Five tips for would-be children's illustrators by Puffin Books' Dapo Adeola
Puffin adds 80 children's books to the prize for our Spring Cover Competition
![The Big Issue's spring cover competition for kids 12 and under](https://www.bigissue.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Hero_kids-comp.jpeg?w=768)
Puffin adds 80 children's books to the prize for our Spring Cover Competition
We want kids to get creative for our first ever Spring cover competition!
![The Big Issue's spring cover competition for kids 12 and under](https://www.bigissue.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Hero_kids-comp.jpeg?w=768)
We want kids to get creative for our first ever Spring cover competition!
Win free tickets to see this hard-hitting film about life in London
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Win free tickets to see this hard-hitting film about life in London
The Big Issue’s kids Christmas cover competition 2019
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The Big Issue’s kids Christmas cover competition 2019
The one where you could win the Friends Blu-ray boxset!
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The one where you could win the Friends Blu-ray boxset!
Exclusive for Big Issue readers: see Ken Loach's new film for free!
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Exclusive for Big Issue readers: see Ken Loach's new film for free!
Ralph Steadman’s exclusive Big Issue cover shows “the state we’re in”
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Ralph Steadman’s exclusive Big Issue cover shows “the state we’re in”
Win two tickets to 'Only Human: Martin Parr' at the National Portrait Gallery
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