[Nfbk] Fwd: [State-affiliate-leadership-list] 2015 NFB Writing Contests for Youth & Adults - notices for each affiliate

[Cathy Jackson]

Good Morning,
If you are interested in the Writers' contest the information is below.
Cathy

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> From: Robert Leslie Newman via State-affiliate-leadership-list <state-affiliate-leadership-list at nfbnet.org>
> Date: November 18, 2014, 2:10:33 AM EST
> To: state-affiliate-leadership-list at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [State-affiliate-leadership-list] 2015 NFB Writing Contests for Youth & Adults - notices for each affiliate
> Reply-To: Robert Leslie Newman <newmanrl at cox.net>, State Affiliate Leadership List <state-affiliate-leadership-list at nfbnet.org>
> 
>  
> Dear Affiliate President
> RE: NFB Writers’ division asks for your assistance in advertising our contests
>  
> I bet your membership will know who and where this notice needs to go within  your state! Please help us get it to teachers and schools, to parents of blind children, to adult rehab services and/or other programs found within your state; including your own membership. Help us to make this the best contest year out of our 75th!years of being a force working for the blind. (Additional notices of are adult and youth contests are attached.)  
>  
> 2015 NFB WRITERS’ DIVISION WRITING CONTEST
>  
> The annual youth and adult writing contests sponsored by the NFB Writers’ Division will open January 1st and close April 1st. 
>  
> NEW THIS YEAR: 2015, being the Federation’s 75th birthday, the contest will for the first time ever, have a required theme. All submissions will need to somehow incorporate the theme of 75. It does not have to be necessarily about the anniversary of NFB. It could just be the number 75, or perhaps the diamond anniversary, or 75 steps to your destination, or even 75 balloons. Thinking of past entries, 75 aliens would work. Seriously, let your imagination take over. Write the piece you want, just remember to include the theme of 75; this is inspired by the 75 years of the great work that has been happening within, and because of the National Federation of the Blind. 
>  
> Adult contests, poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and stories for youth are open to all entrants eighteen and over. 
>  
> The youth writing contest, poetry and fiction, are to promote Braille literacy and excellence in writing; youth must submit both a braille hard-copy version along with an electronic doc or RTF file. The contest is divided into three groups, determined by grade level – elementary, middle, and high school.
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> Prizes for contest winners range up to $100 for adult categories, and up to $30 for youth. 
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> All contest winners will be announced the first week in July, at the Writers’ Division business meeting during the NFB national convention, held in Orlando, Florida. In addition, a list of winners will appear on our website, http://writers.nfb.org 
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> All winners from both, the adult and youth contests will be considered for publication in our Division’s magazine, Slate & Style.
>  
> For additional contest details and submission guidelines, go to our website, http://writers.nfb.org
>  
> Respectfully yours,
> Robert Leslie Newman
> President, NFB Writers’ Division
>  
> The National Federation of the Blind knows that blindness is not the characteristic that defines you or your future.
> Every day we raise the expectations of blind people, because low expectations create obstacles between blind people and our dreams.
> You can live the life you want; blindness is not what holds you back. 
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