High School Short Story Contest

Short Story Contest

DEADLINE: JANUARY 15, 2008

How do I submit my short story?
Entries can be sent by mail to Short Story Contest, EXTENSION Magazine, 150 S. Wacker Drive, 20th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606, and must be typed double-space and have a completed entry form attached. Entries without a signed entry form or which exceed the maximum word count will not be considered. Students are asked to include a page number and the story's title on each page. Entries also may be sent via e-mail in Microsoft Word format to info@catholicextension.org, but a signed entry form must be sent by regular mail.

Short Story Contest Information

Missionaries putting "Faith into Action" are inspiration for teen short story contest

EXTENSION Magazine, which celebrated its 100th anniversary last year with a short story contest inspired by best-selling author Mary Higgins Clark, is repeating the contest again this year to encourage high school students to think and write about their Catholic Faith and to acquaint them with the work of missionaries operating in our own country.

Students are asked to write a fictional story inspired by one of the missionaries, mission churches, seminarians or mission programs supported by Catholic Extension.

Where can I find some of these "true stories of missionaries?"
Look at our archive of "Hidden Hero Missionaries" or in EXTENSION Magazine on-line.

Examples include Sister Kathleen Mary Radich, OSF, who trains catechists, comforts the sick, and provides meals for poor Eskimo families in Alaska's Yukon. Or Fr. Julian Cassar, who must travel up icy switchback roads near Oregon's 6,151-foot Dooley Mountain to serve a small mission chapel. Or Brother Matt Connors, SVD, who shares the life-changing power that can be found in the love of Jesus in a truly dangerous, violent, gang-infested community in Clarksdale, Mississippi.

The first-place winner will receive $500 and have his or her winning story published in EXTENSION Magazine. Second- and third-place winners will receive $300 and $200, respectively, and have their stories published on the Catholic Extension website.

For details, click on the links below:

Eligibility and Guidelines