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Ilona Karmel Writing Prizes
MIT students win over $20,000 in prizes for their fiction, poetry, essays, science writing, and academic writing. Deadline: April 13, 2020.
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Recent Posts
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Transmedia Storytelling Initiative launches with $1.1 million gift
Launched by the School of Architecture and Planning, the Initiative will partner with faculty across MIT, including those at CMS/W — a leader in transmedia storytelling studies going back to its founding in 1999.
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Fictional Landscapes
“Despite being frequently associated with a scenic ideal, the landscape is not reduced to the myth of untouched nature.”
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Deviled Eggs
“Deviled Eggs” won third place in the Robert A. Boit Prize in the short story category of the 2019 Ilona Karmel Writing Prizes.
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More Than a Pretty Picture: Call Me by Your Name’s Subversion of Hollywood’s Heteronormative Portrayal of Homosexuality
“More Than a Pretty Picture” won first place in the Robert A. Boit Prize essay category of the 2019 Ilona Karmel Writing Prizes.
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The History of the Underground
“The History of the Underground” won first place in the Obermayer Prize for Writing for the Public, part of the 2019 Ilona Karmel Writing Prizes.
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We Are All Slime Molds at Heart, Or How We Went Looking for Answers about Our Semi-Intelligent Friends but Ended Up Learning about Ourselves Instead
“We Are All Slime Molds at Heart” won honorable mention in the DeWitt Wallace Prize for Science Writing for the Public, part of the 2019 Ilona Karmel Writing Prizes.
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Urban Forestry
With most of the world’s population now living in cities, should we worry about the implications of living a life without forests?
