New York Times Offers Summer Writing Contest
Interested in being a writer? Love the News? Simply want to be Published? This may be your opportunity. This summer the New York Times is hosting their 5th Annual Summer Reading Contest.
Every Friday starting June 13th and ending on August 15th the NY Times poses a challenge for all teens 13 to 19 years old. The task is simple: read the paper, find an article that is interesting, and respond to the question. To make the challenge even easier, the question is the same each week.
The question: “What interested you most in The Times this week?”
Some students may be discouraged by having to respond to serious news articles, but that is a common misconception. All articles are worthy of a response whether that be an article, an essay, a photo, a feature, an editorial, or even a how-to. Whatever caught your attention, respond to that. Personally, I believe it’s better to write about something you’re truly interested in because, ideally, the enthusiasm shows through no matter the topic.
Writing an opinion response on a topic you enjoy, pretty simple, right? The trick to this contest is that the response must be 350 words or fewer.
The submissions will be judged by New York Times staff, Learning Network staff, and the guest judge. This year the guest judge will be a different Penguin Young Reader Group author. The results will be posted each week on Tuesday in the blog.
The submission link becomes live June 13th and all applications must comply with the New York Times’ privacy rules which can be found on the link below.
Here is the link: Happy writing!
