Monthly Essay Contests from STAGE OF LIFE website   Submission date:  Varies/ Ongoing

Theme:  500-word, personal response to monthly prompt.

Essay Contest from The Lincoln Forum   Submission date:  July 31, 2010

Theme:  Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War

Essay Contest from Ayn Rand Institute    Submission date:  Sept 17, 2010

Theme:  Response to the novel ATLAS SHRUGGED

Essay Contest from US Institute for Peace    Submission date:  Feb 1, 2011 

Theme: Governance, Corruption, and Conflict    Application available online 9/1/2010