Upper School Guidance

Norman Mailer produced extraordinary works in many genres, including the category of this year’s award: nonfiction. Students may submit work in any of the many subgenres of nonfiction: memoir or autobiography, essay, literary journalism, profiles of people or places, and so on. Whatever its type, the best work will be true material presented with compelling literary merit.

High School Competition is open to all high school students. Students may submit one or more pieces of writing, maximum 10 single-spaced pages, endorsed by a teacher and released by a parent or guardian. Winner will receive the following:
• Cash award of $5,000
• *Travel and lodging to attend the Colony’s National Award Ceremony
Entries accepted April 1–April 28, 2010, Noon CST

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A top prize of $1000 goes to the first place winner for a 1000 word essay on the meaning of Saint Patrick’s Day. The contest will be adjudicated by a committee headed by Dr. James W. Flannery, Director of the W.B. Yeats foundation and a member of the Irish Studies program of Emory University. The deadline for submissions is Wednesday, March 3! See Mr. Stachura soon for details.

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At this time, The Poets’ Club of Atlanta and the "Casa de la Cultura Hispana Americana" (CCHA) (Hispanic American Chamber of Culture) would like to invite your institution to participate in the literary contest of the Essay in Spanish in Atlanta to take place 26th of March, 2010. We would like to, once again, see your students participate in this Literary Contest on the Essay 2010. Three prizes of $200 each will be given to the three first place winners. See the rules for this contest in:
http://sites.google.com/site/elpoetasite/reglas-del-concurso-del-ensayo-2010

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Congressman Broun invites you to take part in a nationwide visual art contest the winner of which will have his or her artwork displayed for a year in the Capitol. The competition is open to high school students enrolled in grades nine through twelve, whose home or school lies within the Tenth District of Georgia. See Mr. Stachura for more details.

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The Walton EMC’s Washington Youth Tour can be won by sophomores and juniors who live or go school (that’s all of us) in WEMC’s service area. Students will take a written test on material you’ll be provided covering subjects like electricity, cooperatives, Walton EMC and the electric utility industry. Winners will spend an incredible week in Washington D.C. The entry form deadline is Friday, February 12th at 5 p.m.

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The Wonders of Plastic Essay contest offers you an opportunity to write about how plastics have benefited your life and carries a top prize of $1000. Entries must be in by February 1st. Check this website: http://www.4spe.org/essay-contest . Then see Mr. Stachura for more details.

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The Georgia Farm Bureau’s 2010 Art Contest invites all Georgia High School Students to enter a work of art in black ink or dark pencil on 8.5 x 11 inch white paper. Entries are due by Friday, February 26th. Prizes range from $75 to $250. See Mr. Stachura for more details.

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