Norman Mailer Essay Contest

The Norman Mailer Writers Colony and the National Council of Teachers of English are pleased to invite submissions for the 2010 Norman Mailer High School Writing Awards for Creative Nonfiction.




PRIZES

A cash prize of $5,000 will be awarded to the National Winner. Four finalists will be awarded trophies. Sixteen semifinalists will be awarded certificates.



Submission Guidelines



CATEGORY

Norman Mailer produced extraordinary works in many genres, including the category of this year’s award: Creative Nonfiction. Students may submit work in any of the subgenres of creative 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.



ELIGIBILITY, PAGE LENGTH, and DEADLINES

Entries will be accepted online only and may include one or more pieces of writing. Winners receive travel and lodging to attend the Colony's National Award Ceremony. Entries accepted March 22 - April 29, 2010, Noon CST. The 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.



Although there are page limits for these pieces, quality is far more important than quantity. No late entries will be accepted.



For complete submission guidelines and judging criteria, or to submit an entry, visit the NCTE website. If you have any questions, please contact me directly at nmw@ncte.org. I wish you the best of luck!

Essay contest

Dear Friends and Colleagues,




I hope this email finds you well. As you already may know, the National Campaign to Restore Civil Rights (NCRCR) has launched its 2010 contest entitled, "What Does Equality Mean to You?". The contest is geared towards young people aged 14 to 18, asking them to either create a visual image or a written entry illustrating their ideas about equality. This year's contest will be judged by Grammy Award musician Alicia Keys, comedian Margaret Cho, Congressman Keith Ellison, Congressman Greg Meeks, and Ben Jealous of the NAACP. Winners will receive a trip to New York City, a $ 500 dollar cash prize, and an opportunity for national recognition. The contest ends on April 12, 2010.



We urge to distribute information about this contest widely. Attached please find the NCRCR 2010 Contest Toolkit Please feel free to institute this contest in your school, and share it with other educators. Please do not hesitate to contact me with any questions or suggestions at nnagahawatte@nylpi.org or 917.344.0077.

Post your ideas for your 8th issue articles

Wide coverage is necessary, so think outside the box... what haven't we covered this year and how we can do a this year in review kind of thing...

For example:
Maybe we want to cover highlights from each discipline - talk to teachers about trips, projects or special activities.

Can't wait to see what you come up with

Please review the 6th issue and post your comments here

What did you think of coverage variety?

What did you think of layout?

What do we still need to work on?

How can you contribute to make it happen?

News topics

Hey I'm Livi the editor for the news section and as you all know, everyone has to write a news article for the last issue.

I recommend doing news either first or last because news is always TIMELY.
if you have any questions on writing a news story, just let me know.

If there is a name next to the topic that means it's already taken so don't ask if you write it.

right now , this is what I have:
- WJPS baseball team
- Senior trip (Ashley)
- Senior dance (Kristina)
- Spring break (Alysse)
- Google takes action on new restrictions
- Health care offical (Zandalee)
- Madison square garden picks up mixed martial arts
- Intepid trip to visit government officals & mayor
- Journalism conference with the publications

- theft trouble in WJPS (Shazia)
- Summer high school internships

- NYU offers space to make an elementary school

- LIFT program

- 2010 Census participation

- Security awarness newsletter (Sherlyn)
- AP tests in May (Shanza)

If you don't wish to write about any of these it's fine but you must email me or post a comment to let me know what you would like to write about. I will continuely post more topics as times goes on so keep check.
Email : Livianette.Cabrera@wjps.org

8th issue

Requirements for 8th issue from all students -

You will be writing an article for every section in last issue of the paper, but not all of what you write will go in.

When you are writing your news articles, please submit them to me and Livianette Cabrera (she will be giving you feedback) livianette.cabrera@wjps.org

When you are writing feature articles, please submit them to me and Sarah Bianchi at Sarah.bianchi@wjps.org

When writing entertainment articles, please submit them to Georgina  at gpapazafiropoulos@wjps.org

When writing opinion articles, please submit them to Anastasia at anastasia.papis@wjps.org

When writing sports articles, please submit them to Lisa at lisamarie.ludford@wjps.org

Deadlines:
You will write one article at a time... you may not move on to the next article until you complete the process with each
1st article - 1st draft due - April 7th
1st article - 2nd draft due - April 12th
1st article - final draft due - April 14th

2nd article - 1st draft due - April 15th

2nd article - 2nd draft due - April 19th
2nd article - final draft due - April 21st

3rd article - 1st draft due - April 22nd

3rd article - 2nd draft due - April 26th
3rd article - final draft due - April 28th

4th article - 1st draft due - April 29th

4th article - 2nd draft due - May 3rd
4th article - final draft due - May 5th

5th article - 1st draft due - May 6th

5th article - 2nd draft due - May 10th
5th article - final draft due - May 12th

Changes are coming

Good morning everyone.

We have exciting information to share with the classes from the convention.  During class this week, you guys will hear all about it.

When we return for break we will be gearing up for our last issue of the year and the beginning of a reorganization.

We got a lot of feedback about where we are at and where we need to go as a paper.  More info on this to follow.

Have a great weekend, come to class prepared to work on Monday.

Your final drafts of your 7th issue article (free choice) is due on Wed.  Please make sure you got in your drafts.

Current events #7 is due on Monday, 3/23

Updates

The 6th issue is currently laid out.  If you didn't turn in your article by yesterday, it will be moved to the 7th issue set to come out after break.  The 6th issue will hopefully be out before break.

Your 7th issue articles (now 6th issue) were well past due
First draft of free choice was due yesterday (Monday 3/15)
Second draft of free choice is due Friday 3/19
Final drafts are due on Wed. 3/24

Current events is also due on Mondays EXCEPT during vacations

We will start work on 7th issue articles as of Wednesday 3/24 - topics should be emailed to section leaders to start setting up the next layout spreadsheet

Thanks for your compliance

on a side note, we need to continue to update the Ning with your work...

It's eportfolio time again

Please make sure you are visiting your eportfolio and uploading your work regularly and always reflecting...

You probably won't have class time, so please make sure to be doing it on your own time.

Thanks

5th issue critique - post-mortum

Please read the 5th issue and comment on the strengths and weaknesses to this post.

Interesting opportunity

We're Looking for Feature Stories




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