“All I did was stand up for what I believed.”
--Muhammad Ali
ETHICS. . . To live an ethical life following requires not only tremendous personal courage and conviction but also an incredibly high ethical standard.
The National Council of Teachers of English is proud to partner with the Muhammad Ali Center and the Norman Mailer Center and Writers Colony to offer an award for college students honoring Muhammad Ali’s legacy of living a life dedicated to high ethical standards.
We are seeking submissions that address relevant ethical topics of this generation. As you identify an ethical issue to address for the purposes of this competition, consider Muhammad Ali’s accomplishments and values and how these values address the topic you have chosen. (Visit www.alicenter.org for more information regarding Ali’s values.)
Prizes
One winner will be selected to receive the following:
- A week-long writing workshop at the Mailer Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts during summer of 2013
- Recognition by the Muhammad Ali Center and the Norman Mailer Center at the Norman Mailer Center’s Annual Gala on October 4, 2012
- Travel, lodging, and gala tickets for the winner and one family member, courtesy of the Muhammad Ali Center
Judging Criteria- Coming Soon!
Submission Guidelines
Entries can focus on any aspect of ethics -- from ethics across cultures to personal, medical, or business ethics, and more. Writers can choose to explore ethical issues surrounding military policy, cultural differences, public policy, or any other subject they feel is ethically relevant. Sample topics might include the following: the ethics of holding detainees in Guantanamo Bay; the ethics of firing drones away from an active battle field; the ethics of being an international company attempting to impose western values regarding women on middle eastern countries; the ethics of funding prisoners’ rights programs while defunding initiatives in public schools; the ethics of food justice (we all have a right to food--access and availability). We encourage writers to think broadly about the issue of ethics and how it applies to the larger world.
The competition is open to full-time undergraduate students, and first- and second- year full-time students enrolled in community colleges, junior colleges, and technical colleges. Entries should be a maximum of 10 single-spaced pages and no more than 5,000 words.
Deadline for submissions is July 23, 2012, Noon CDT.
To enter, visit: http://center.uoregon.edu/conferences/NCTE/FORMS/CFP/cfp_login.php?formid=814015