Writing for Peace Contest 2025
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The Gandhi Alliance in collaboration with the SLCC Community Writing Center (CWC) and Student Writing and Reading Center (SWRC) are facilitating the 2025 Writing for Peace Contest.
For the 2025 Contest, writers must respond to the following writing prompt:
"Reflect on a crucial moment in the past in which violence or an escalation of violence was avoided due to the actions of peace actors. How might we use the peacemaking actions from this past event to work toward a peaceful resolution or change for a contemporary social, political, environmental, and/or economic issue in the present? Now, imagine a future in which peace has been sustained."
We encourage submissions of rough drafts and final drafts.
There are awards for an adult category and youth (15-18 years old) category. Submissions open to adults and students in Utah. Here is the breakdown of the award amount for first, second, and third place awards for each category.
- $250 first place
- $100 second place
- $50 third place
Submission Deadline: 11:59 pm on March 19, 2025.
The CWC will publish the award-winning essays in May. There will be a celebration for the winners on May 8, 2025. Winners will be notified and formally invited to the celebration.