Pulitzer Center Local Letters for Global Change Contest 2025 – YOA

Deadline: November 14, 2025

Applications are open for the Pulitzer Center Local Letters for Global Change Contest 2025. Make your voice heard this fall by writing a letter to an area elected consultant that explains the worldwide subject you need them to prioritize, exhibits the way it connects to your local people, and proposes an answer. Through this contest, college students can observe world citizenship, civic motion, and persuasive writing, all whereas exploring the underreported points that matter to them by means of Pulitzer Center information tales.

The Pulitzer Center needs to learn and share your letters: inform them, and the world, what’s most vital to you. 

Prizes

They will choose one first place winner and as much as 4 finalists for every subject class. First place winners will obtain:

• $300 to assist world group engagement in your classroom (prize distributed to your class instructor)
• Publication of your letter, photograph, and bio on the Pulitzer Center web site

Finalists will obtain:

• $75 to assist world group engagement in your classroom (prize distributed to your class instructor)
• Publication of your letter, photograph, and bio on the Pulitzer Center web site

All entrants can be invited to take part in a Pulitzer Center city corridor occasion, held nearly in November, to share their options with different college students from all over the world.

Eligibility

• They welcome entries from all present Okay-12 college students throughout the globe. Letters could also be written in English and/or Spanish.
• Letters ought to deal with a subject inside one of many Pulitzer Center’s 5 focus points:
  • Climate and Environment (Includes local weather change, air pollution, extractive industries, and extra)
  • Global Health (Includes well being inequities, meals safety, psychological well being, water and sanitation, and extra)
  • Human Rights (Includes racial justice, gender equality, migration and refugees, Indigenous rights, and extra)
  • Information and Artificial Intelligence (Includes know-how and society, misinformation, and extra)
  • Peace and Conflict (Includes warfare, battle, and peacebuilding efforts)

Application

• Go to the Suggested Stories tab and select a narrative that provides you new details about a difficulty that issues to you.
• Write a one-web page letter to an area decisionmaker that solutions the next questions:
  • What subject would you like the native decisionmaker to deal with?
  • Why is that this subject vital globally? (Remember to quote proof from the Pulitzer Center-supported story! You can use extra sources to seek out proof, too.)
  • Why is that this subject vital to your local people, and/or to you personally?
  • Why are you writing to this individual? What energy and/or accountability have they got?
  • What would you like this individual to do? Offer an answer and cite proof that your resolution can be efficient.
• You would not have to reply the questions on this order, however your letter ought to reply all 5 questions. For assist writing your letter, use this graphic organizer, or see the Resources for Teachers and Students.
• Submit your letter using the contest entry form. It will request some primary private and make contact with data; the title and make contact with data for considered one of your academics; and you may copy/paste your letter instantly into the shape.
• After submitting your letter to the Pulitzer Center, contemplate mailing or emailing your letter to the decisionmaker instantly.

For extra data, go to Pulitzer Center Contest.