2011 NORTHWEST PERSPECTIVES ESSAY CONTEST
OPEN AND STUDENT CATEGORIES
Oregon Quarterly invites entries to a 2011 Northwest Perspectives Essay Contest in both tyro as well as open categories. Entries should residence ideas which start a Northwest. The Oregon Quarterly staff will name finalists as well as a competition decider will select a tip 3 winners in any category. Past judges have been Kim Stafford, Barry Lopez, John Daniel, Karen Karbo, Brian Doyle, Lauren Kessler, Craig Lesley, Molly Gloss, Kathleen Dean Moore as well as Kenny Moore.
Click upon a links next to perspective winning as well as finalist essays from benefaction as well as past Northwest Perpectives Essay Contests:
2009 Northwest Perspectives Essay Contest essays
2010 Northwest Perspectives Essay Contest essays
PRIZES:
Open Category
First place: $750
Second place: $300
Third place: $100
Student Category
First place: $500
Second place: $200
Third place: $75
In addition
- First place letter in a open difficulty will crop up in Oregon Quarterly.
- A preference of tip essays will be featured in a prime open celebration of a mass upon a UO campus.
- Fifteen finalists (ten in a open difficulty as well as 5 students) will be voiced in a summer 2010 emanate of Oregon Quarterly.
- All finalists will be invited to experience in a letter seminar with a competition judge. The competition is open to all nonfiction writers, except: (1) first-place winners from prior years’ contests, (2) authors who have created a underline for Oregon Quarterly in a past monthly calendar year, as well as (3) staff of Oregon Quarterly, University Advancement, or their family members. The tyro competition is open to any tyro enrolled as well as posterior a connoisseur or undergraduate grade during a college or university during a time of a deadline. Previously published essays will not be considered.
Manuscript Submission Guidelines
- Submit dual copies of your manuscript.
- Paperclip a cover piece to a dual copies which includes usually a essay’s title; a word count; as well as a entrant’s name, address, as well as phone series contingency be provided. Indicate either a letter is for a tyro or open category.
- Entrant’s name contingency not appear upon any pages of a publishing alternative than a cover sheet.
- One entrance per person.
- Manuscripts should be printed double-spaced upon 8½-by-11-inch white paper with smallest 1-inch margins.
- Word length is 2,000 difference limit for a open category, 1,500 difference for a tyro contest.
- Faxed or e-mail entries have been not accepted.
- Postmark deadline is Jan 31, 2011.
Entries will not be returned. Those which do not encounter these acquiescence discipline have been automatically disqualified. There is no entrance fee.
Send entries to:
Oregon Quarterly Essay Contest
5228 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-5228
Sponsored by Oregon Quarterly magazine as well as a UO Duckstore
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