The deadline approaches. If you are currently enrolled in college, a graduate program, or seminary (or even if you graduated this month) and you would like to see your writing featured on the First Things website, be sure to enter our second annual Student Essay Contest.
Essays are due on June 15. Further details and submission guidelines may be found here.
Check out last year’s first- and second-place winners:
- Jimmy Myers, Is It True that “The World Will Be Saved by Beauty”?
- Ben Woodfinden, What Happens When Your Worldview Is Built Upon a Free Lunch?
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