Climate Resilient Everyday Short Story Contest
Online Event
Registration
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Eligibility
All College of the Holy Cross students, alumni, faculty, and staff as well as anyone holding a Holy Cross Libraries card are eligible to participate.
Entry Rules
~ Short stories must be non-fiction and somehow answer the question, what does climate resilience look like in everyday life? Personal stories or stories about others are accepted.
~ Participants must complete the digital submission form and may only submit one story. No paper entries will be accepted.
~ Stories must be original and previously unpublished, including online blogs.
~ Stories used for course or work assignments may be submitted as long as they were not published elsewhere.
~ Please submit non-fiction stories with 1,500 words or less, in Times New Roman font size 12 and one-inch margins. Single, 1.5, or double spacing are all accepted. ~ The title of the story should be in the header of each page, and stories must be written in English.
Notification of the Winner
The winner will be notified by Holy Cross' director of sustainability by mid-March. All contestants will be notified shortly thereafter, via the email address provided during submission.
Award
The winning story will get added to CrossWorks, Holy Cross' open access institutional repository. In addition, the contest winner will receive $250 and an announcement on the Libraries' Newsfeed.
The Climate Resilient Everyday Short Story Contest is financially supported by a grant from the Resilient Communities program within the American Library Association.