The Sejong
Cultural Society
2010 sejong
writing competition: Sijo Division
1. Eligibility: all
pre-college students residing in the US regardless of
ethnic background.
2. Sijo must be written in English on a topic of your
choice. One entry per student is permitted.
3. Division: One division open to students in grade 12
or younger
4. Prizes: First ($300), Second ($200), Third ($100),
Friends of Pacific Rim Award: ($50 each)
The winners¡¯ works may be published in the Korea Times
Chicago and the Korean Quarterly (St. Paul, MN) and ¡°Azelea:
A Journal of Korean Literature and Culture¡± published
by the Korea Institute at Harvard University.
6. Please visit our website for rules: The entry and
application must be sent as email attachments to
writing@SejongCultu ralSociety. org. Please download
application form from our website. The contestant's name
cannot be written in the document (i.e. it must be
written anonymously) .
7. Submission
deadline: April 30th, 2010. Entries must arrive
on or before midnight (CST) by e-mail. Any questions
should be emailed to writing@SejongCulturalSociety. org
8. Our Mission: The goals of the Sejong Writing
Competition are to discover children and young adults
talented in writing and to encourage them to learn and
write about Korea and its culture. Through this writing
competition we hope to increase the awareness and
understanding of Korea's cultural heritage amongst the
younger generations growing up in the United States so
as to bridge Korean and Western cultures and promote
harmony among people of various ethnic backgrounds.
Sijo Competition Rules
and Information
in collaboration with the Harvard University Korea
Institute
Deadline:
11:59pm, April 30th, 2010 (CST)
how to write sijo |
sijo samples |
sijo references (links)
Divisions: One division open to all pre-college
students.
Prizes (funded by the
Korea Institute at Harvard University):
•First ($300), Second ($200), Third ($100)
•Honorable mention - friends of Pacific Rim Awards
($50 each)
•Competition winners will be announced in AZALEA:
Journal of Korean Literature and Culture.
•Winners' works may be published in the Korea Times
Chicago.
Guidelines:
•Write one sijo in
English on a topic of your choice. A title for the
sijo is not required.
More information on writing sijo can be found here.
•The contestant’s name cannot be written in the
document.
•The entry should be typed as a Word document (.doc,
.docx) or Rich Text Format (.rtf).
Sijo should be written in 12pt Times New Roman font
with 1.5 inch margins on all sides.
•One entry per student is permitted. (Students are
permitted one essay and one sijo entry.)
•Entries and applications must be sent as email
attachments to writing@sejongculturalsociety.org.
The subject of the email should be “Sejong Writing
Competition Entry.” Entries and applications must be
sent together or they will not be accepted.
•No application fee.
•We reserve the right to use all submitted pieces in
future publications of the Sejong Cultural Society
with no compensation to the authors.
•We reserve the right to not award any prizes.
Source:
The Sejong Cultural Society 2010 sejong writing
competition: Sijo Division
