Writing Contest 2012 is Underway!
Our popular annual challenge for local high school students has begun. This year
we ask students to use the Titanic
tragedy as the source for creative writing.
Entrants can elect to write a short (about 500 words) interview between
the student-writer and an Irish passenger aboard the Titanic, or a longer (about 1500 words) short-short story focused
on the meeting before the collision of the ship and iceberg of two Irish
passengers There will be separate prizes
for the shorter and longer entries. The
challenge of the writer will be to bring the people they have chosen back to
life for the reader and to recall the enormous tragedy which took place one
hundred years ago.
The Friendly Sons of St. Patrick and the H.W. Wilson Foundation are the generous sponsors of this writing challenge.
Contest Information:
- Contest Details - get all the necessary information to be part of the contest here.
- Helpful Hints - need help getting started? This is the place to go first!
- The Titanic - Our Hedgemaster article about the famous steamship. (click here for the PDF version)
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