WOL Foundation 2013 Essay Competition On Socio-Environmental Issues

WOL Foundation runs an annual essay competition looking for the best non-technical, English language writing on themes related to socio-environmental issues.

Entries for the essay competition will be judged by the members of our Advisory Board.

Theme

An Aspirational Future

Organizer

WOL Foundation

Prizes

The winning entry will receive a cash prize of $1,500. A further $500 will be awarded to the second placed entry.

The shortlisted entries will be published as a book of collected essays

Deadline

30 September, 2013

Guidelines

Our judging process will reward two main attributes in the submissions received: fresh thinking and a clear, compelling writing style. We are looking for entries that everyone will want to read.
All essays submitted to the competition must focus on socio-environmental issues and address the current year’s theme. Essays that are off subject and off theme will be rejected.
Any and all views on the specified theme are welcome and encouraged. We would like to see entries that address all perspectives creatively. Just avoid giving us tired ideas that have been hashed out many times before.
Entries should be written in prose in the English language. You can submit essays or short stories, factual commentary or fiction – whichever way and whichever writing style you choose to communicate your ideas. Just make it compelling.
Everyone is welcome. Any one individual may submit up to three entries.
Essays should be aimed at a general readership and should be non-technical. No footnotes or citations are allowed.
Submissions should be no longer than 2,000 words.
Essays may have been published before provided you have the necessary permissions to re-publish.
We are mainly after clearly presented ideas not language perfection. If your essay reaches the finalists, we will help with editing the language.
Submissions will be accepted until September 30th, 2013.
Entry to the competition is free of charge.
Copyright for all submissions remain with the authors. In submitting their work, authors grant the Web of Life Foundation an irrevocable license to print, publish, distribute and publicize the submitted work.
Your entry must be submitted as a digital file saved in Microsoft Word (.doc) format. DO NOT send the essay text in the body of an email.
Manuscripts must be written in English, double spaced, no longer than 2,000 words and contain no abstract, list of references or footnotes.
Save your files only with the the essay title as the file name. DO NOT start or include “WOLF essay competition” or any other such generic statement in the file name. We cannot easily sort out hundreds of files all called WOLF Essay Competition!
The Microsoft Word document with your essay should also include in the same document the name, street/postal address and email addresses of the author/s.
Submit your entry for the 2013 competition by email to submissions@wolfoundation.org