{"id":2712,"date":"2015-12-08T13:34:28","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T21:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/?p=2712"},"modified":"2015-12-10T14:28:58","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T22:28:58","slug":"learning-from-nature-5000-essay-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/uncategorized\/learning-from-nature-5000-essay-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning from Nature: $5,000 Essay Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CreativeNonfiction.org <\/strong>in partnershop with the Biomimicry Center at Arizona State University is hosting a $5,000 essay contest called &#8220;Nature from Learning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They plan to award $5,000 to the winning essay, and $1,000 for the runner up. The essays will be published in the fall 2016 issue of Creative Nonfiction Magazine.<\/p>\n<p>I hesitated to publicize this contest because they charge writers a $3 fee for online submissions. Even though they accept submissions via post, free of charge, I still find it unethical to charge writers anything \u2013 especially when writers are submitting writing &#8220;on spec&#8221;, free of charge.<\/p>\n<p>(On a side note, the online submissions are run by Submittable, a company backed by Silicon Valley venture capitalists. Since the rise of Submittable, submission fees have become extremely common. The majority of sites that charge fees to writers use Submittable. A large part of the blame for the unethical practice of charging writers rests directly on the shoulders of the people running that company.)<\/p>\n<p>For the essay contest, they are &#8220;looking for well-crafted narratives that will illuminate the relationship between humans and the environment, particularly as we face the challenges of climate change.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The deadline is February 1st, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more, and to submit, read their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.creativenonfiction.org\/submissions\/learning-nature\">submission guidelines.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CreativeNonfiction.org in partnershop with the Biomimicry Center at Arizona State University is hosting a $5,000 essay contest called &#8220;Nature from Learning.&#8221; They plan to award $5,000 to the winning essay, and $1,000 for the runner up. The essays will be published in the fall 2016 issue of Creative Nonfiction Magazine. I hesitated to publicize this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2722,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2712"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3025,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2712\/revisions\/3025"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}