Norton Writer’s Prize 2025 for Undergraduates in the U.S. ($1,000 prize) – YOA

Deadline: June 15, 2025

Applications are open for the Norton Writer’s Prize 2025. This is a non-fiction prize for undergraduates in the US, who’re enrolled in an accredited 2- or 4-yr faculty or college, enrolled throughout the 2024-25 yr, and aged 18 and above. They will settle for literacy narratives, literary and different textual analyses, experiences, profiles, evaluations, arguments, memoirs, proposals, multimodal items, and different types of authentic non-fiction items of 1,000-3,000 phrases.

Three money prizes will probably be awarded in 2025 for coursework submitted throughout the educational yr, one in every of the following three classes:

• Writing by a primary-yr pupil in a 2- or 4-yr faculty or college.
• Writing by a pupil in a 2-yr faculty or college.
• Writing by a pupil in a 4-yr faculty or college.

Prizes

• Each prize is $1,000. The retail worth of all prizes is $3,000.00. All prize quantities are US {dollars}. All bills, if any, related to the acceptance and use of prizes, together with however not restricted to taxes, are the sole duty of the winners.

Eligibility

• Open to authorized residents of the fifty (50) United States and the District of Columbia;
• Be 18 years of age or older at the time of entry and who’re enrolled in an accredited 2- or 4-yr faculty or college in the 2024-2025 educational yr.
• Employees of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., together with its member firms, subsidiaries, associates, suppliers, and companies, and their fast relations and individuals residing in their households, aren’t eligible to enter or win.
• Contest just isn’t open to earlier Contest winners or runners-up.
• All federal, state, and native rules apply. Void the place prohibited by regulation.

Application

Entry requires nomination by an teacher in entrant’s undergraduate establishment and should encompass all of the following:

• one (1) copy of a double spaced pupil essay, between 1,000 and three,000 phrases in size, with none figuring out pupil info;
• teacher’s brief abstract of the essay’s deserves, typed on departmental stationery, on a single sheet that additionally contains teacher’s identify, college electronic mail handle, cellphone quantity, and title; and
• a completed Information Form, setting forth pupil’s identify, college electronic mail handle, cellphone quantity, and projected yr of commencement; the teacher’s identify, electronic mail handle, cellphone quantity, and title; the title of the essay; the identify of the course for which the essay was written; and a press release signed by the pupil confirming (a) that the essay represents the pupil’s authentic work and (b) that the pupil is knowingly coming into the Contest, has learn and understood these Official Contest Rules, consents to be thought of an “entrant” for functions of those guidelines, and consents to the disclosure of the personally figuring out info (“PII”) required for entry.

For extra info, go to Norton Writer’s Prize.