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| The Fountainhead Essay Contest | Updated October 21st, 2008 |
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The 23rd Annual THE FOUNTAINHEAD essay contest is open for 11th and 12th Graders only. The contest is open to students worldwide. Select ONE of the following three topics: 1) In dynamiting Cortlandt Homes, Roark breaks the law. What is the moral and philosophical argument for the rectitude of his action? 2) Ellsworth Toohey and Gail Wynand both spent much of their lives consciously seeking power over others. But was their quest for power the same? How did each man’s goals and motivations contrast to Roark’s? 3) In a single, unified essay, explain each of the following quotation’s meaning in The Fountainhead and its wider significance. a. HELLER: “You know, there’s a thing that stumps me. You’re the coldest man I know. And I can’t understand why—knowing that you’re actually a fiend in your own quiet sort of way—why I always feel, when I see you, that you’re the most life-giving person I’ve ever met.” (Part 1, Chapter 13) b. LANSING: “I want a good hotel, and I have certain standards of what is good, and they’re my own, and you’re the one who can give me what I want. And when I fight for you, I’m doing—on my side of it—just what you’re doing when you design a building.” (Part 2, Chapter 10) c. KEATING: “How do you always manage to decide?” ROARK: “How can you let others decide for you?” (Part 1, Chapter 2) Essays will be judged on both style and content. Judges will look for writing that is clear, articulate and logically organized. Winning essays must demonstrate an outstanding grasp of the philosophic and psychological meaning of The Fountainhead. To avoid disqualification, a stapled cover sheet MUST include: your name and address; your e-mail address (if available); the name and address of your high school; topic selected (#1, 2 or 3 from list above); your current grade level and (optional) the name of the teacher who assigned the essay, if you are completing it for classroom credit. Winners, finalists, semifinalists and all other participants will be notified will be notified via e-mail and/or by mail by July 26, 2008. FIRST PRIZE: $10,000 5 SECOND PRIZES: $2,000 10 THIRD PRIZES: $1,000 45 FINALISTS: $100 175 SEMIFINALISTS: $50 send: Complete MS looking for: Article |
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| The Atlas Shrugged Essay Contest | Updated October 21st, 2008 |
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For The Ayn Rand Institute's ATLAS SHRUGGED essay contest entrants must be enrolled in a college degree program at the time of entry. High school students entering college in the fall of 2008 are also eligible. The contest is open to students worldwide. ATLAS SHRUGGED—TOPICS 1. Why do Dagny and Rearden oppose the strikers in action? 2. Explain Ragnar Danneskjold’s statement that Robin Hood is the one man he is out to destroy. What is the deeper moral meaning of his claim? 3. For each of the following three passages from Atlas Shrugged, explain its meaning and its relation to the story and theme of the novel. a. Galt: "In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit. In that transfusion of blood which drains the good to feed the evil, the compromiser is the transmitting rubber tube.” -Part Three, Chapter VII b. Dagny: “We never had to take any of it seriously, did we?” Galt: “No, we never had to.” -Part Three, Chapter I c. Francisco: “You have a great deal of courage, Dagny. Some day, you’ll have enough of it.” -Part One, Chapter V Essays will be judged on both style and content. Judges will look for writing that is clear, articulate and logically organized. Winning essays must demonstrate an outstanding grasp of the philosophic meaning of Atlas Shrugged. A stapled cover sheet MUST include: name and address of entrant; entrant's e-mail address (if available); name and address of entrant's university; topic selected (1, 2 or 3 from list above); and your declared major. Winners and other participants will be notified by November 27, 2008. FIRST PRIZE: $10,000 3 SECOND PRIZES: $2,000 5 THIRD PRIZES: $1,000 20 FINALISTS: $100 20 SEMIFINALISTS: $50 send: Complete MS looking for: Article |
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| James T. Grady-James H. Stack Award | Updated August 20th, 2008 |
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The purpose of the James T. Grady-James H. Stack Award for Interpreting Chemistry for the Public is to recognize, encourage, and stimulate outstanding reporting directly to the public, which materially increases the public's knowledge and understanding of chemistry, chemical engineering, and related fields. The award consists of $3,000, a medallion with a presentation box, and a certificate. Reasonable travel expenses to the meeting at which the award will be presented will be reimbursed. The medallion will be presented during the award address of the American Chemical Society. A nominee must have made noteworthy presentations through a medium of public communication to increase the American public's understanding of chemistry and chemical progress. This information will have been disseminated through the press, radio, television, films, the lecture platform, books, or pamphlets for the lay public. The Deadline is November 1 (annual review). send: Complete MS looking for: Any specifically: Science and Nature |
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| tags: $1000+ prize any length article contest creative non-fiction educational essay film/tv narrative nonfiction no entry fee non-fiction novel personal essay science and nature short short story technical writing | |
| Teachers & Writers Collaborative Bechtel Prize | Updated June 10th, 2008 |
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The Bechtel Prize is awarded annually in recognition of an exemplary article or essay related to: - Creative writing education - Literary studies, and/or - The profession of writing The winning essay appears in Teachers & Writers magazine, and the author receives a $2,500 honorarium. Honoraria totaling $1,000 are shared by the authors of entries selected as finalists for the Bechtel Prize, which may also be published in Teachers & Writers. Possible topics for Bechtel Prize submissions include contemporary issues in classroom teaching, innovative approaches to teaching literary forms and genres, and the intersection between literature and imaginative writing. Submissions must be previously unpublished and under 5,000 words in length. Submissions must be typed, paginated, and double-spaced. Submissions will be judged anonymously. The author’s name and address must not appear anywhere on the essay/article. Two copies of the entry must be submitted. One copy should include a cover page with the following information: the author’s name, mailing address, e-mail address, telephone number, the title of the submission, and where the author learned about the Bechtel Prize. The other copy should include a cover page with only the title. Authors of the Bechtel Prize winner and finalists must permit Teachers & Writers Collaborative to publish their submissions in Teachers & Writers. Teachers & Writers Collaborative reserves the right to edit the submissions for publication. send: Complete MS looking for: Article |
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| Educator's Award | Updated September 02nd, 2008 |
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The Delta Kappa Gamma Society International is a professional honorary society of women educators. The Society promotes professional and personal growth of its members and excellence in education. Established in 1929, Delta Kappa Gamma has attained major objectives in improving opportunities for qualified women employed at every level of education as well as in advancing the status of women educators. The Society has members belonging to chapters located all over the world including: Canada, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Finland, Germany, Great Britain, Guatemala, Iceland, Mexico, Norway, Puerto Rico, Sweden, The Netherlands, and the United States of America. The Delta Kappa Gamma Society International presents an Educator's Award to the author(s) of a book which may influence future directions of education. The author(s) must be a woman from a country in which the Society is established. To be considered for the award, the book must be published or translated into English within a prescribed one-year period. The content must be of more than local interest with relationship, direct or implied, to education everywhere. send: Complete MS looking for: Non-Fiction Book specifically: Educational/Career |
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| tags: $1000+ prize Lifestyle YA any length children's contest creative non-fiction educational how-to narrative nonfiction no entry fee non-fiction psychology student technical womens writing | |
| The Anthem Essay Contest | Updated October 21st, 2008 |
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The Ayn Rand Institute ANTHEM Essay Contest is For 9th and 10th Graders only. Select ONE of the following three topics: 1) Aside from very rare exceptions (Equality, the Saint at the Pyre) there is literally no opposition to the leaders in this society. Why is this? What ideas must the average man have accepted to live a life of obedience, drudgery, and fear? 2) Prometheus writes: “The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who will seek them.” (Chapter 3) Why does he think that the secrets of this earth are not for all men to see? If he thinks this, why does he decide to show his glass box to the World Council of Scholars? How do these issues relate to the theme of the novel? 3) For each of the following quotations from Anthem, explain in a single, unified essay the quotation’s meaning in the story and its wider significance. a) “We alone, of the thousands who walk this earth, we alone in this hour are doing a work which has no purpose save that we wish to do it.” (Chapter 1) b) “Are we proud of this thread of metal, or of our hands which made it, or is there a line to divide these two?” (Chapter 5) c) “Only the glass box in our arms is like a living heart that gives us strength.” (Chapter 7) Essays will be judged on both style and content. Judges will look for writing that is clear, articulate and logically organized. Winning essays must demonstrate an outstanding grasp of the philosophic meaning of ANTHEM. Contest is open to students worldwide. To avoid disqualification, a stapled cover sheet MUST include: your name and address; your e-mail address (if available); the name and address of your high school; topic selected (#1, 2 or 3 from list above); your current grade level and (optional) the name of the teacher who assigned the essay, if you are completing it for classroom credit. Winners, finalists, semifinalists and all other participants will be notified via e-mail and/or by mail by July 26, 2008. FIRST PRIZE: $2,000 5 SECOND PRIZES: $500 10 THIRD PRIZES: $200 45 FINALISTS: $50 Cash Awards 175 SEMIFINALISTS: $30 Cash Awards send: Complete MS looking for: Article |
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| Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize | Updated May 18th, 2008 |
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The Committee on Honors and Awards of the Modern Language Association invites authors to compete for the eighteenth annual Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize for an outstanding book published in English in the field of Latin American and Spanish literatures and cultures. The prize was established in 1990 by a gift from the parents of Katherine Singer Kovacs, a member of the MLA who died in May 1989. A specialist in Spanish and Latin American literature and film, Professor Kovacs taught at Stanford University, the University of Southern California, and Whittier College. Under the terms of the gift, the prize selection committee will be especially interested in original, broadly interpretive books that enhance understanding of the interrelations among literature, the other arts, and society and that offer fresh perspectives on the field. Books published in 2007 will be eligible for the competition in 2008. The award will be presented to the winning author at the association's annual convention in December 2008. send: Complete MS looking for: Non-Fiction Book specifically: Ethnic |
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| tags: $1000+ prize adult any length contest creative non-fiction educational ethnic literary narrative nonfiction no entry fee non-fiction regional writing | |
| Kenneth W. Mildenberger Prize | Updated May 18th, 2008 |
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The Committee on Honors and Awards of the Modern Language Association invites authors to compete for the twenty-eighth annual Kenneth W. Mildenberger Prize, to be presented for an outstanding scholarly book in the fields of language, culture, literacy, or literature with strong application to the teaching of languages other than English. The prize will be awarded for a book published in 2007. Entries for this competition will be accepted until 1 May 2008, and the award will be presented to the winning author at the association's annual convention in December 2008. send: Complete MS looking for: Non-Fiction Book specifically: Educational/Career |
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| MLA Prize for Independent Scholars | Updated July 09th, 2008 |
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To recognize and further encourage the achievements and contributions of independent scholars, the Modern Language Association invites authors to compete for the twenty-fifth annual MLA Prize for Independent Scholars, to be awarded for a distinguished scholarly book published in 2007 in the field of English or another modern language or literature. Authors who are not enrolled in a program leading to an academic degree and did not hold a tenured, tenure-accruing, or tenure-track position in a postsecondary educational institution at the time of publication of the book are eligible. (Tenure is understood to include any comparable provision for job security in a postsecondary educational institution.) Normally, part-time instructors and adjunct faculty members are eligible to compete for the prize. The award will be presented to the winning author at the association's annual convention in December 2008. Entries must be received by 1 May 2008. Publishers may enter more than one title. send: Complete MS looking for: Non-Fiction Book specifically: Creative Non-Fiction |
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| Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize | Updated May 18th, 2008 |
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The Committee on Honors and Awards of the Modern Language Association invites authors to compete for the twenty-eighth annual Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize, to be presented for an outstanding scholarly book in the fields of language, culture, literacy, or literature with strong application to the teaching of English. The prize will be awarded for a book published in 2007. Entries for this competition will be accepted until 1 May 2008. Authors of works competing for the prize need not be members of the association. The prize will be awarded for a book published in 2007. Entries for this competition will be accepted until 1 May 2008, and the award will be presented to the winning author at the association's annual convention in December 2008. send: Complete MS looking for: Non-Fiction Book specifically: Educational/Career |
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