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2nd Annual Scholarship ProjectFor Immediate Release!
Literary Wonders!
Announces its
2nd
Annual Literary Scholarship Essay Contest"Faith"
This contest is open to the following age groups:
Ages 8-10 Prize: $25 Scholarship Ages 11-13 Prize: $50 Scholarship Ages 14-16 Prize: $100 Scholarship Ages 17-21 Prize: $200 Scholarship
Submission guidelines: All entrants must submit an essay that explains and exemplifies their views on, and the importance of faith in today's worldly destruction and disasters. Essays should also include what the student's solution would be to a more peaceful and safer world.The essay must be doubled spaced and typed with a black 12-point basic font. (No fancy fonts). Entrants must type their name, date, word count and contact information (i.e. address or e-mail address and phone number) and age in the upper right hand corner of the page. Each page must be numbered. Cover pages are okay.
Entrants will be judged on sincerity, creativity, originality, grammar and structure.Submissions that are not specific with guidelines will automatically eliminated. Submissions that are clearly not written by students will automatically be eliminated. If you would like your essay returned, please also include a SASE (Self Addressed Stamped Envelope). Any submissions without a SASE will not be returned.
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ord Count:Ages 8-10 (100-250)
Ages 11-13
(500-700)Ages 14-16 (1000-2000)
Ages 17-21 (2500-5000)
In addition to a scholarship, the winning submission will be featured on Literary Wonders!, AMAG Online! And submitted to various media outlets. The top 10 best essays will be featured in a future anthology project.
This contest is open to all United States MINORITY Citizens fitting the specified age groups.
Deadline for submissions is December 31, 2006.
Send submissions to:
Literary Wonders!
Scholarship Contest
PO BOX 1631
Little Elm
, TX 75068For questions, please email scholarships@ literarywonders. com. Please no phone calls.
Yolanda M. Johnson
President and Publisher
Literary Wonders! - www.literarywonders .com
Author "Circumstances" , "Crimes of Passion: The Anthology"
"Second Time Around: The Anthology" Coming Soon
Editor - AMAG Online! - www.awarenessmagazi ne.net
Yolanda's Lair - A Blogspot! - http://yolandaslair .blogspot. com
Ms. J's Sports Report - http://msjssportsre port.com
My Life As A Writer - Yack - http://www.theyack. com/blogs/ yolandamjohnsonStaff/Feature Writer - Hope for Women Christian Magazine www.hopeforwomenmag .org
Sunday November 5, 2006 - 08:43pm (EST) Permanent Link | 0 Comments - Here's To Good Reading
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Hello and welcome to another incarnation of Read Zone Book Reviews. Our aim is to create and maintain venues at the hot spots (myspace, yahoo etc.) so that the writers in the black community have another avenue for promotion. So please browse the pages of our various sites/blogs as listed in our blogroll and help us spread the word far and wide about the quantity and quality of books for men, women and children of color which we will have listed on our pages.
Here's to good reading!
Peace,
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