The people at Summer Literary Seminars are having a non-fiction contest this year with the theme "Eastern European Histories: people's roots and ancestral heritage."
Here is some of the info. More is available (including the complete guidelines at the SLS site by clicking here.
The Summer Literary Seminars SLS Jewish Lithuania/Litvak Experiences Program is pleased to announce a new non-fiction contest: East-European Roots: New Writing on the Old World, held this year in affiliation with Tablet Magazine, an online magazine providing a "new take on Jewish life", and judged by Philip Lopate.
The theme for the contest is Eastern European Histories: people's roots and ancestral heritage. The contest winner will have their work prominently featured online in Tablet Magazine. Additionally, they will receive free airfare, tuition, and housing to our 2011 SLS Jewish Lithuania/Litvak Experiences Program.
Second-place winners will receive a full tuition waiver for the 2011 SLS Jewish Lithuania/Litvak Experiences Program, and third-place winners will receive a 50% tuition discount.
A number of select contest participants, based on the overall strength of their work, will be offered tuition scholarships, as well, applicable to the 2011 SLS Jewish Lithuania/Litvak Experiences Program.
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