Friday, January 7, 2011

Essay Prize

Are you familiar with the Essay Prize, a yearly prize for "the work that best exemplifies the art of essaying—inquiry, experimentation, discovery, and change...the activity of a text, rather than its status as a dispensary of information"? The current nominees are up if you're interested, and you should probably expect a flurry of blogging about these texts over the next few months here on Essay Daily.

3 comments:

  1. Looking forward to reading/watching these essays. Thanks for this great website and prize.

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  2. & as you can see names of the folk who have nominated the 2010 contenders are omitted, at least until the prize is awarded, so as not to unduly influence anyone.

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  3. Super interesting. I like that it's open to different mediums (film, audio, photo).

    The judging seems interesting as well... it sounds like the type of class/seminar I would love to take, and one that would probably be really insightful into the essay form.

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