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STUDENT CONTEST
The submission deadline for the North Carolina Folklore Society's annual student contest is Date TBA, 2007. Prizes
will be awarded for the best essay and best multimedia project.
Prizes in this competition honor two of our Society's most faithful and distinguished members, who were also faculty at Appalachian State University, Cratis D. Williams and W. Amos Abrams. Winners receive a $100 prize and a certificate of recognition. Prize-winning and honorable mention works may also be published in the North Carolina Folklore Journal or on the NCFS web site.
Contest winners will be recognized at the Society's annual meeting.
The contest is open to graduate, undergraduate, and continuing education students enrolled during 2007-08, including those taking summer courses.
Contest entries must be studies of North Carolina folklife or of the use of folk materials in art or literature. They may be reports and analyses of field collecting or of library research. Written essays should conform to MLA Handbook style. Type essays double-spaced and include proper documentation. Examples of past essays appear in NCFJ, 30:1 & 2 (1982), 32:1 (1984), 34:1 & 2 (1987), 36.2 (1989), 37.1 (1990), 38.1 (1991), 45.2 (1998), and 47.2 (2000). Multimedia entries should be submitted in the appropriate format--VHS, CD or DVD or URL.
Cover letters should include the student's name, graduate or undergraduate status, the title of the entry, the entrant's home and campus addresses and phone numbers or e-mail address, the names of the school she or he attended and of the course and instructor, and a statement permitting editing, copyrighting, and publication without royalty by the N.C. Folklore Society. The text of entries should include the title of the essay, but no identification of author.
Mail entries to Christine A. Whittington, James Addison Jones Library, Greensboro College, 815 West Market Street, Greensboro, NC 27401, or email nominations to cwhittington@gborocollege.edu.
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