Dawn or Doom: Student Writing Contest
About
Again this year, Purdue’s future technology conference Dawn or Doom is offering a student writing contest.
Students who enter will be asked to attend one or more presentations at Dawn or Doom '17 and write a journalistic nonfiction piece related to a presentation.
The Dawn or Doom '17 presentations will be held September 26-27, in Stewart Center.
Rules
BEFORE YOU BEGIN:
- The Dawn or Doom '17 Student Writing Contest is open to any student enrolled for the fall 2017 semester at Purdue University, including regional campuses.
- Students wishing to enter the Dawn or Doom '17 Student Writing Contest must pre-register for both the writing contest AND the Dawn or Doom '17 event.
- Students entering the contest must check in at the registration table in the foyer of Stewart Center on Tuesday or Wednesday, Sept. 26 or 27.
- When students check in at the registration table each student writer will receive a free Dawn or Doom T-shirt.
YOUR ENTRY:
- Entries must be journalistic, nonfiction and between 800 and 1,000 words in length.
- Acceptable forms of journalistic nonfiction include:
- AP-style news story
- Newspaper feature article
- Magazine article
- Commentary or opinion piece
- Essay (personal, humor, analytical, or persuasive)
- Your entry must report on or be based on a presentation at Dawn or Doom '17.
- Your entry must include your name and email in the upper right corner and the appropriate page number on each page of your entry.
- Entries can be submitted beginning at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 27, and will be accepted until midnight EDT Sunday, Oct. 1.
- No group entries or bylines are accepted.
- Student writers will retain the rights to their work, but agree to allow publication on the Dawn or Doom website or in Dawn or Doom promotional materials if selected.
- Entries must be submitted electronically via the Dawn or Doom '17 writing contest page.
