The New York Times Tiny Memoir Contest is an annual writing competition organized by the New York Times. It invites writers to submit short, personal memoirs that are 100 words or fewer in length. The memoirs can be about any topic or experience, and should be written in a style that is engaging, evocative, and reflective.
The Concord Review (TCR) is an academic journal dedicated to publishing historical research papers of high school students in English. With the spring issue, the quarterly journal has published 1,362 research papers from authors in 46 states and 41 countries. Many of the authors of TCR have gone to prestigious universities and colleges across the US and around the world.
The Cosmos Championship is a global, virtual debating platform for high school students of any skill level. Almost every week, the championship hosts several debate competitions to accommodate all the regions of the world.
The World Individual Debating and Public Speaking Championship is an annual international English language debating and public speaking tournament for individual high school-level students representing different countries.
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The Harvard National High School Invitational Forensics Tournament, held in Cambridge each Presidents’ Day Weekend, is the largest and most prestigious high school speech and debate tournament in the country, providing opportunities for students to compete in Policy Debate, Lincoln-Douglas Debate, Public Forum Debate, Student Congress, and a variety of individual and duo speech events.
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The World Schools Debating Championships (WSDC) is an annual English-language debate competition for high school-level teams representing different countries.
The Harvard Undergraduate Economics Association (HUEA) is organizing its flagship Harvard International Economics Essay Contest with the collaboration of the Harvard College Economics Review.
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The Leonard Milberg High School Poetry Prize recognizes outstanding work by student writers in the 11th grade in the U.S. or abroad. Contest judges are poets on the Princeton University Creative Writing faculty, which includes Michael Dickman, Paul Muldoon, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, James Richardson, Tracy K. Smith, Susan Wheeler, Jenny Xie, and Monica Youn.
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JASNA (Jane Austen Society of North America) conducts an annual student Essay Contest to foster the study and appreciation of Jane Austen’s works in new generations of readers.
The Ayn Rand Institute (ARI) sponsors annual essay contests for students on Ayn Rand’s novels. These essay contests are open to high school students, college students, and graduate students. Prizes for the essay contests range from $50 to $10,000, and the top essays are published on the ARI website.
