Think You Can Write?
Wonder why no one’s ever noticed? Here’s your big chance. Small Wars Journal is staging an $8000 writing competition, and they aren’t effing around:
Papers should be 3,000 to 5,000 words in length. Papers will be blind reviewed and judged primarily for clarity of presentation, relevant insights to the question asked, and overall significance of the key points made to the practice of small wars. No extra points awarded for length, name dropping, or how epic the incidents discussed were as distinct from the weight of the insights. Papers need not be OIF- / OEF-centric. Papers must resonate beyond a single silo, i.e. they must touch on at least some aspect of joint, coalition, interagency, multi-disciplinary, or cross-cultural significance.
More bitch-slapping of wannabe scribbling heroes at the link, and a couple of essay questions that make it clear that while they want original voices, this isn’t going to be amateur hour. You’re gonna have to think before you write, and you’re gonna need to know what you’re talking about. Damn, I’m out. Sounds like a good competition.
Topics: military
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 9:54 am Comments (1) on Monday, August 10, 2009
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