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Student Writing Contest Seeks Poets and Writers of Social Justice [1]

Poetry [2]
Fiction [3]
Creative Nonfiction [4]
12.21.11

The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center [5] in Hartford, Connecticut, is looking for works of poetry and prose from collegiate writers whose literary work advances social justice, in the spirit of Stowe's activism through storytelling.

Accepting all types of previously-published writing, from poems to stories to blog posts, the inaugural Student Stowe Prize competition will award twenty-five hundred dollars to a current college or university student.

The winning work will also be republished on the Stowe Center website, and the writer will be recognized at a ceremony on June 7, 2012, alongside a secondary school student whose writing also strives to make "a tangible impact on a social justice issue critical to contemporary society." Eligible works may touch on questions of, for instance, race, class, or gender equality, and must have appeared in a notable periodical or blog [5].

Student writers may submit entries, which should be accompanied by three references, until February 27. For complete guidelines, visit the Stowe Center website [5].


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[1] https://www.pw.org/content/student_writing_contest_seeks_poets_and_writers_of_social_justice [2] https://www.pw.org/genre/poetry [3] https://www.pw.org/genre/fiction [4] https://www.pw.org/genre/creativenonfiction [5] http://www.harrietbeecherstowecenter.org/worxcms_published/programs.items_page208.shtml