2025 Essay Contest - High School Category (Grades 9-12)
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Essay Contest - High School Category
Deadline: January 14, 2025
Topic: Open
Awards
1st Place: $250 and published in the July/August issue of Bethesda Magazine
2nd Place: $150
3rd Place: $75
Honorable Mention: $50
All winning essays will be published on the Bethesda Urban Partnership and Bethesda Magazine websites and will be honored at a special event during the Local Writer's Showcase, March 14, 2025.
Requirements Essays must be limited to 500 words or less about a topic of the writer's choosing. Only one entry per person. Your essay must be your original work. Any essays containing material that is obscene or objectionable will be disqualified.
Eligibility Students must attend a public or private school or reside in Washington, D.C. or Montgomery County, MD to be eligible. Students in High School ages 18 are able to submit.
Current and former employees, contractors, directors, and officers of the Bethesda Urban Partnership (BUP) and their immediate family members are ineligible. Current students, relatives, or close personal friends of the judge(s) are also ineligible. Only one entry per person.
Judges Jillian Danback McGhan, Vonetta Young, and Anna Lapera
Notification Winners will be contacted in February 2025.
Copyright All entrants retain the copyright rights that they have in the essays they submit, but by participating in this contest and submitting essays, all entrants grant Bethesda Urban Partnership (BUP) the right, license, and ability to use and publish all submitted essays (in complete form or in excerpted form) on the BUP website, on other websites, and in other media.
Questions? Please email essay@bethesda.org or call 301-215-6660, Ext. 117.
For more information, please visit www.bethesda.org.