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The International Outdoor Writers
Association of America Youth Writing Contest
NORM STRUNG YOUTH
WRITING AWARDS
Outdoor Writers Association of America® helps
budding writers via its annual Norm Strung
Youth Writing Contest. Prizes are awarded to
winners in grades 6-12 for poetry and prose
categories. 2017 awards totaled $1,900, thanks
to sponsor Safari Club International.
 If you know a student who would like to enter
the contest, rules for the 2017 contest are
located on the right.
 OWAA will announce the winners during
summer 2017. OWAA reserves the right to
reprint the winning entries in its publications,
including Outdoors Unlimited®, and on its
website, http://www.owaa.org.
2018 NORM STRUNG YOUTH
WRITING CONTEST RULES
1. The work must have been written during 2016.
2. At the time the article was written, the author
must have been a student in grades 6-8 to enter
the junior division; grades 9-12 (including prep
school) to enter the senior division.
3. The topic must be outdoor-oriented (hiking,
camping, boating, fishing, hunting, nature,
ecology, canoeing, etc.). Any prose or poetic
form is acceptable.
4. Entrants must submit one legible copy of his or
her work, either a tear sheet from a publication
work or a manuscript. The entrant must also
include a cover sheet including the entrant’s
name, contact information (address, email, and
telephone), grade in school and name/date of
publication in which the work appeared, if
applicable.
5. Students may enter as many pieces of writing as
they wish; however, each student will be limited to
one prize per annual contest.
6. Deadline for mailing entries is March 15,
2018. Send entries to OWAA Headquarters, 615
Oak St., Ste. 201, Missoula, MT 59801. Mark the
lower left hand side of the envelope with the
division for which the entry is intended
(“Junior” or “Senior”), and for the category
(“Prose” or “Poetry”).
Contest Sponsors
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