{"id":24535,"date":"2026-03-19T13:50:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T17:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/?p=24535"},"modified":"2026-03-20T00:54:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T04:54:05","slug":"wgs-undergraduate-writing-competition-now-open-for-submissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/2026\/03\/19\/wgs-undergraduate-writing-competition-now-open-for-submissions\/","title":{"rendered":"Submissions for WGS&#8217; Undergraduate Writing Competition due March 23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.udmercy.edu\/academics\/special\/wgs\/\">Women\u2019s and Gender Studies Program<\/a> is accepting submissions for the 2025\u201326 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.udmercy.edu\/academics\/special\/wgs\/competition.php\">Undergraduate Writing Competition<\/a>. The deadline for submissions is <strong>Monday, March 23<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>All current Detroit Mercy undergraduate students are encouraged to submit original work <span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">exploring issues related to gender, sexuality and\/or feminist thought. Submissions that engage with questions of identity, power, equity and social justice are highly encouraged <\/span>in the following genres:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Poetry<\/li>\n<li>Personal essays<\/li>\n<li>Short stories<\/li>\n<li>Academic essays<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Total prizes in the amount of $700 will be awarded.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please email Lee Eshelman at <a href=\"mailto:eshelmlr@udmercy.edu\">eshelmlr@udmercy.edu<\/a> or visit the link below.<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.udmercy.edu\/academics\/special\/wgs\/competition.php\">Submission guidelines and additional details.<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-24536 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/01\/WGS-writing-competition.jpg?resize=993%2C558&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Flyer for the 2025\u201326 Detroit Mercy Women\u2019s and Gender Studies Undergraduate Writing Competition. Text reads \u201cUndergraduate Writing Competition.\u201d Students are invited to submit poems, personal essays, short stories or academic essays exploring gender, sexuality and feminist thought. The flyer notes $700 in prizes and a March 23 deadline. The Women\u2019s and Gender Studies Program logo is in the upper left-hand corner and a decorative star graphic and QR code are at the bottom.\" width=\"993\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/01\/WGS-writing-competition.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/01\/WGS-writing-competition.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/01\/WGS-writing-competition.jpg?w=825&amp;ssl=1 825w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 993px) 100vw, 993px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All current undergraduate students at Detroit Mercy are encouraged to submit original work for the WGS 2025\u201326 Undergraduate Writing Competition exploring issues of gender, sexuality and\/or feminist thought, with the submission deadline March 23. Prizes in total of $700 will be awarded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":677,"featured_media":24536,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4404],"tags":[6164,6165,1843,198,355,5708,6310,6515,3920],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/01\/WGS-writing-competition.jpg?fit=825%2C464&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbwnTV-6nJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24535"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/677"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24535"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25263,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24535\/revisions\/25263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}