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UPDATE: Due to technical difficulties with Crossroads' email account, the deadline for the essay competition has been extended! Entries now due August 31st. Please submit new entries and entries previously submitted to Crossroads' UQ address to the new competition email address: crossroads.competition@gmail.com
Eligibility
You must be a UQ student (undergraduate or postgraduate), who has completed at least two HPRC courses, or be a student (undergraduate of postgraduate), who is currently enrolled in the School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics.
Submission Instructions
Submit your entry via email to crossroads.competition@gmail.com, by noon, August 31 2009.
Entries must be in RTF or Microsoft Word format, and sent as an email attachment, not as email text. Be sure to retain a copy of your entry; the judges will not keep them after the competition.
You must also include a Crossroads Short Essay Competition entry form, as a separate attachment. You can download the form here.
Essay Specifications and Style
Word length: 1500-3000 words.
Essays can be written on any topic related to History, Philosophy, Religion or Classics, or topics that cross these disciplinary boundaries.
Essays must have a title.
Essays should observe the regular style guide for Crossroads, using ENDNOTES ONLY in Chicago Style. If your essay does not conform to these guidelines it will not be accepted.
Competition Judgement and Criteria
Essays will be divided into the undergraduate or postgraduate categories, and judged by the Crossroads editing team, with particular consideration given to originality.
Those essays considered to be best in the undergraduate and postgraduate category will be published in a special section on the Crossroads website.
The top three in each category will also receive book vouchers donated by the Co-op bookshop on the UQ campus.
Winners will be notified via email. Judges' decisions are final.
First Annual Crossroads Short Essay Competition
To view the winning entries of last year's short essay competition, please check out the following link
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