Essay Contest | submission form

Following the huge success of the previous years’ MyLife contest, we are proud to announce the sixth annual MyLife: Chassidus Applied Essay Contest. 

You are invited to submit an original essay applying a concept or idea in Chassidus to solve a contemporary life issue or challenge. A panel of judges will select the winning essays.

NEW BETA TRACK! Creative Submissions 

This year we are beta testing a new creative track, with its own prize. We are now accepting submissions of an original creative presentation conveying a concept in Chassidus and applying it to a contemporary life issue or challenge. Please read the rules and guidelines for this new track. Submissions can include, but are not limited to, any of the following categories: 

• Creative Writing or Spoken Word, including short stories, poetry, plays, scripts, letters, lesson plans, lyrics, journal writing, and recorded speech/presentation.  
• Visual Arts, including music, photography, digital art, paintings, sculpture, pottery, fashion, calligraphy, graffiti art, sketchbooks, mixed media with text and visual, collages, videos (all submissions must be in digital form) 

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