The Buckley Institute is excited to announce that the 2025 Yale undergraduate and high school essay contests are now open! Yale undergraduates and American high school students can submit an essay to possibly win $250, $500, or even $1,000. Winning writers will receive their awards at our annual conference in New Haven on November 14, 2025. […]| Buckley Institute
The Buckley Institute is pleased to announce the winners of our 2025 National Undergraduate Essay Contest. This year, the second year of the national undergraduate essay contest, the Buckley Institute received over 60 submissions from students at colleges and universities around the country, coming from private, public, and community colleges. Responding to a prompt on […]| Buckley Institute
This year, NüStories launched its first annual personal essay contest to encourage and honor non-fiction writing on China by underrepresented writers – and we were blown away by the response! We chose the theme “Chinese identity” because we wanted to showcase the diversity of Chinese-ness both inside and outside of China’s borders, and to provide a space for people to grapple with what it means to be Chinese today.| nuvoices.com
The Gerald R. Ford Student Writing Challenge 2025 is open to U.S. students in 9th through 12th grades. The first-place essay will earn the writer $2,500.| Aaron On Scouting
For the first time in its history, the Buckley Institute opened its annual essay contest to all American high school, undergraduate, and Yale University students. We received around a hundred outstanding submissions from across the country. Participants were invited to submit original essays on free speech in recognition of the 50th anniversary of the Woodward Report. […]| Buckley Institute
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