Opportunities: Essay Contests 
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IHS High School Essay Contest
The Institute for Humane Studies is pleased to announce their first annual essay contest for high school seniors, with a chance to win $3000 in prizes. The essay topic is George Orwell's Animal Farm.
The Bastiat Prize for Journalism
"The prize was developed to encourage and reward writers whose published works promote the institutions of a free society: limited government, rule of law brokered by an independent judiciary, protection of private property, free markets, free speech, and sound science."
Cato.ru Launches Russian Essay Contest
Cato.Ru launches an essay contest for students and recent graduates. Participants are invited to submit their essays on various problems in the area of property rights. Essays must be submitted in Russian (NO English submissions accepted).
Essay Contest: The Benefits of a Free Market Economy
The Association of Private Enterprise Education invites students 25 years and younger to submit essays on one of three topics. Cash awards totaling over $6,000 will be distributed among the top four finalists!
IHS Academic Writing Competition
Undergrads: $2,000 in prizes for the best undergraduate submissions on the topic of progress, prosperity, and human flourishing. Grads:Recognizing the best published and unpublished work by graduate students on progress, prosperity, and human flourishing. $2,000 in prizes and the possibility of presenting research at the 2008 Social Change Workshop.
Mont Pelerin Society Hayek Essay Contest
Take part in an essay competition with one of the oldest and most influential classical liberal organizations in the world. Winners receive a travel/registration grant to participate in the next meeting!
International Policy Network Bastiat Prize
The Bastiat Prize for Journalism was inspired by the 19th-century French philosopher and journalist Frédéric Bastiat. The prize was developed to encourage and reward writers whose published works eloquently and wittily elucidate the institutions of a free society: limited government, rule of law brokered by an independent judiciary, protection of private property, free markets, free speech, and sound science.