Jane Austen Society Of North America Essay Contest 2022

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About The Jane Austen Society Of North America Essay Contest

JASNA conducts an annual student Essay Contest to foster the study and appreciation of Jane Austen's works in new generations of readers.

Students world-wide are invited to compete for scholarship awards in three divisions: 

High School: students and home-schooled students enrolled at the high school level during the contest year

College/University: students enrolled in at least six credit hours of course work at a junior college, college, or university during the contest year

Graduate School: students enrolled during the contest year in at least three credit hours of graduate course work at a college or university leading to an advanced degree.

Membership in JASNA is not required to enter the contest.

 

Jane Austen Society Of North America Essay 2022 Topic

The 2022 Essay Contest topic relates to the theme of our upcoming Annual General Meeting: Jane Austen’s first published novel, Sense and Sensibility.

Family relations loom large in this book, and Austen has more than one story to tell, with four sets of siblings and notable mothers. Essays can focus on relations between siblings or pairs of siblings, between mothers and their offspring, or perhaps on characteristics (apart from sense and sensibility) embodied by a related or unrelated pair.

Family trees for the main characters are available here.  

Submissions Deadline

The deadline for submissions is Thursday, June 2, 2022. Be sure to visit the Submissions page to review the contest rules and eligibility requirements before entering.

Essay Contest Awards

JASNA awards scholarships to winners in each of the three divisions: 

First Place:  $1,000 scholarship and free registration and two nights’ lodging for JASNA’s upcoming Annual General Meeting (Transportation to the conference is not provided.)

Second Place:  $500 scholarship

Third Place:  $250 scholarship 

Winners will each receive one year of memberships in JASNA and a set of Norton Critical Editions of Jane Austen's novels. The winning essays will also be published on this website.

Contest Rules and Submission Website

• Entries MUST address the current essay contest topic or they will not be considered. 
• Entries must be submitted by the student through the official Essay Contest Submission website. The site will be open to accept submissions in mid-February. (Use this link.) Duplicate entries are not allowed. Each submission will be confirmed by e-mail using the address supplied.
• The student must complete the official online entry form, which includes a stipulation that the essay is the student’s original work and has not been published elsewhere.
• Entries may include a statement about the student’s mentor; however, a mentor statement is not required.
• Entries must be submitted before midnight PDT on the published deadline date.
• Contest judging is conducted anonymously. Personal information about the student, school, and mentor must appear ONLY on the entry form and not in the essay. Make sure your software does not automatically put your name on each page.
• Your essay and the entry form must be uploaded to the Essay Contest Submission site. If you have difficulties, please contact Meg Levin at essay-contest@jasna.org.
• Essay Format
• Entries that do not conform to the following requirements or arrive after the deadline will be disqualified.

• The essay must be written in English.
• The title of the essay should appear at the top of page one; further pages should be numbered on the top right; the student’s name must not appear on the essay.
• The essay must be in MLA format (double-spaced and in 12-point type throughout, with one-inch margins on all sides of each page).
• The essay must be 6-8 pages in length, not including the Works Cited page.
• The essay must use MLA documentation, including a Works Cited page and parenthetical citations in the body of the text.  Use end notes only for substantive notes.  Source material that is directly quoted, paraphrased, or summarized must be cited. Quotations from the Jane Austen work under discussion should be cited as well.

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