Michael Sprinker Graduate Writing Competition

Dear Colleagues,

PLEASE ANNOUNCE, POST, AND CIRCULATE TO GRADUATE STUDENTS

The Marxist Literary Group is pleased to announce the twentieth annual *Michael
Sprinker Graduate Writing Competition*, established to remember and further
Michael’s commitment to Marxist intellectual work and to graduate teaching
and students. The award recognizes an essay or dissertation chapter that
engages with Marxist theory, scholarship, pedagogy, and/or
activism. Submissions will be judged by a committee of the MLG. The winner
receives a prize of $500 and automatic entry of the essay into the peer
review process for the MLG's journal *Mediations*.

The winner will be announced at the MLG’s annual Institute on Culture and
Society (ICS), to be held at the University of Illinois-Chicago June 21-26,
2019.  For further information on the Institute, see
http://www.marxistliterary.org/mlg-ics/
<http://www.marxistliterary.org/mlg-ics>or send questions about this year’s
ICS to [email protected].

Any and all current graduate students are eligible, although submissions
must be in English. Membership in the MLG is recommended but not
required. Essays or chapters must be unpublished but finished work, and
must be an absolute maximum of 8000 words, including notes and/or works
cited. Please include name, mailing address, phone number, and email
address on a separate cover sheet.  The writer’s name should not appear on
the essay itself.

*Deadline: Monday, May 21, 2019*.  Please send your documents as
attachments in MS Word to Courtney Maloney at [email protected],
and send any questions about the competition to the same address.

Thank you!

Courtney

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