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| Avar Press: Literary Essay Scholarship for High School Students |
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All essays must be non-fiction and original work, analyzing any single aspect of D.J. Solomon's Xen: Ancient English Edition, ISBN 0976066009, Avar Press, 2004. The use of the essay as part of the writer's routine school work in any capacity is permitted. The Scholarship competition is open to all US and Canadian high school students who are members of the classes 2008 or 2009, including home schoolers. Submissions must be 1250-1500 words. The deadline is May 15, 2008.
Announcing the Annual Avar Press
Literary Essay Scholarship Competiton for High School Students
The essay contest is free. There is no application fee or anything to purchase or buy.
Cash awards
Eligibility
First Prize: $1000
Second Prize: $750
Third Prize: $500
Any member of the U.S. or Canadian
high school classes of 2007 or 2008,
including home schoolers.
For 2007, Avar is extending the essay contest to college as well as high school
students in both the US and Canada (see website for more details).
Xen is the story of a misanthropic scientist who rids the world of evil.
But it is also
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1. A whimsical myth about a bet between Wind and Water over the fate of
mankind and Earth herself.
2. A eugenics program that breeds out our xenophobia, ridding the world of hate
& prejudice.
3. A catalog of all the atrocities and depravity of Mankind.
4. An allegory where the battle of the sexes is settled once and for all.
5. A proof that mankind is innately flawed and cannot be fixed; he must be
scrapped for a superior species that is dominated by women.
6. The last testament of Mankind.
7. A tribute to the robustness but persistent vagaries of the English language.
8. An acceptance of the difficulty in pinning anything down, since (most)
everything is relative.
9. How fire got banned from Earth.
10. How vegetarianism triumphed and animals came no longer to be exploited for
food and raw materials, or in any other fashion.
11. An exercise in absurdly esoteric language, laid low by strong language and
outright vulgarity.
12. About the power of first thoughts and the difficulty in suppressing them.
13. A first contact with extraterrestrial life capable of interstellar travel, but in
reverse.
14. A story about good versus evil.
15. A future perfect Utopia on Earth.
16. A personal call to action to cultivate kindness in our hearts and treat others
as we would like to be treated.
17. A question, do the ends justify the means?
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| $1000 |
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| http://www.avarpress.com/HS_scholarships.html |
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