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2009
Northwest Perspectives Essay Contest
OPEN
AND STUDENT CATEGORIES
Oregon
Quarterly invites entries
to the 2009 Northwest Perspectives Essay
Contest in both student and open categories.
Entries should address ideas that
affect the Northwest. The Oregon Quarterly staff
will select finalists and the contest judge
will choose the top three winners in each
category. Past judges have been Kim Stafford,
Barry Lopez, John Daniel, Karen Karbo,
Brian Doyle, Lauren Kessler, and Craig
Lesley.
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 essays will appear in Oregon
Quarterly.
- A selection of top essays will be featured in a springtime public
reading on the UO campus.
- Fifteen
finalists (ten in the open category
and five students) will be announced
in the summer 2008 issue of Oregon Quarterly.
- All
finalists will be invited to participate
in a writing workshop with the contest
judge. The contest is open to all
nonfiction writers, except: (1) first-place
winners from previous years’ contests,
(2) authors who have written a feature
for Oregon
Quarterly in the past calendar
year, and (3) staff
of Oregon
Quarterly, University Advancement,
or their family members. The student
contest is open to any student currently
enrolled and pursuing a graduate or
undergraduate degree at a college or
university. Previously published essays
will not be considered.
Manuscript
Submission Guidelines
-
Submit two copies of your manuscript.
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Paperclip
a cover sheet to the two copies that
includes only the essay’s title;
a word
count; and the entrant's name, address,
and phone number must be provided.
Indicate whether the essay is for the
student or open category.
- Entrant's name must not appear on any pages of the manuscript
other than the cover sheet.
- One entry per person.
- Manuscripts
should be printed double-spaced on
8½-by-11-inch
white paper with minimum 1-inch margins.
- Word length is 2,500 words maximum for the open category, 2,000 words
for the student contest.
- Faxed or e-mail entries are not accepted.
- Postmark
deadline is January 31, 2009.
Entries
will not be returned. Those that do not
meet these submission guidelines are
automatically disqualified. There is no
entry fee.
Send entries to:
Oregon Quarterly Essay Contest
5228 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-5228
Sponsored by Oregon Quarterly magazine
and the University of Oregon Bookstore
The
University of Oregon is an equal
opportunity, affirmative action institution,
committed to cultural diversity and
compliance with the Americans with
Disabilities Act. Copyright 2008,
University of Oregon. All rights
reserved. Contents may be reprinted
only by permission of the editor.
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