An Opportunity For Young Writers: The Adam Smith Insitute Essay Competiton

The Adam Smith Institute has created a small island of intellectual sanity in the wastelands of London.

It speaks with authority, wit and grace on behalf of free markets and free cultures, and OS tries to spend a little time in company of its leader, Eamonn Butler, every week.

Thus, in the OS Continuing Creative Revenge Campaign, the announcement below is shared. If you are a young person, anywhere in the world who writes in English(OS assumes they want submissions in English....you may wish to check with them.), and believe that your life will fare much better in a free society than in the ones that seem to be now in vogue, the Adam Smith Institute has an essay competition for you. If you win, it's £500 of cash, publication on their site, a two-week internship in their offices, and a party on their boat. If you are in high school/sixth form, and even hit the top three in this competition, take OS's word for it:  There's a ton more than £500 and a fun two weeks in it as you hit the beaches of the university admissions process. Admissions committees scour the landscape for young people who already know how to write coherent English, and compete and win. OS knows this first-hand, he's just not at liberty to talk about it for a few years...

Mom, Dad, Older Sibling, Teacher, Headmaster: It's OK to twist junior's arm on this. He'll get over it. The process of having to think it through, do some outside reading and integration of ideas, writing a few drafts and actually submitting the final product, on a tight schedule, is a fabulous education in and of itself. It's like, you know, real life work.

Someone, somewhere, is gonna win this thing. Might as well be you, your child, your student. OS will even prime the pump, two ways. Look at the bottom of the page, and you'll see the Amazon listings of a good place to begin your work.  And, if an American student wins, OS will kick in an extra £50. He'll mail it to Mr. Butler to hand to our intrepid author when he visits London. Money talks and spends. (You'll need cash in London. The Nanny State is expensive.)

Here's the announcement:
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The Adam Smith Institute invites you to enter our student competition: ‘Young Writer on Liberty'.
We would like you to write three different articles on the subject:

Ways to advance freedom

The title of each article is entirely up to you.

1st Prize:
£500 cash prize
3 articles published on www.adamsmith.org/blog
3 books on the subject of liberty
2 weeks work experience at the ASI
Invitation to the prize giving on our Summer Boat Party

2nd Prize:
2 articles published on www.adamsmith.org/blog
2 books on the subject of liberty Invitation to the prize giving on our Summer Boat Party

3rd Prize:
1 article published on www.adamsmith.org/blog
1 book on the subject of liberty
Invitation to the prize giving on our Summer Boat Party

To enter:
- you have to be under 20 years of age at the time of entry
- all articles must be under 400 words
- the entry must reach us by the deadline of 30th April 2010
Please email any entries or questions to charlotte@adamsmith.org 
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Book:

The Alternative Manifesto, by Eamonn Butler