{"id":114,"date":"2021-01-04T12:46:02","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T12:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sustainability.me.holycross.edu\/?p=114"},"modified":"2021-01-04T12:46:02","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T12:46:02","slug":"climate-resilient-everyday-short-story-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/sustainability\/2021\/01\/04\/climate-resilient-everyday-short-story-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Resilient Everyday Short Story Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyday, ordinary people are making decisions to fortify their livelihood and personal values against the possible negative impacts of climate change &#8211; The family making an emergency kit with essential supplies for an upcoming extreme weather event; the teen lobbying for an idling truck policy to limit poor air quality days; the employee participating in an earthquake drill. What does climate resilience look like in everyday life? The Holy Cross Libraries and the Office of Sustainability invite you to submit a short non-fiction story to the 2021 Climate Resilient Everyday Short Story Contest. Let\u2019s explore how everyday people are demonstrating climate resilience and let\u2019s amplify those voices.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/sustainability\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2021\/01\/Climate-Resilient-Story-Contest-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"Infographic with short story contest dates\" width=\"525\" height=\"525\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-115\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Eligibility<\/strong><br \/>\nAll College of the Holy Cross students, alumni, faculty, and staff as well as anyone holding a Holy Cross Libraries card are eligible to participate.<\/p>\n<p>Need a library card? Library cards are generally issued at the discretion of the supervisor on-duty, primarily to Worcester area clergy, Nativity School teachers, other Worcester-area school teachers, members of the Worcester Institute for Senior Education, and members of the American Guild of Organists. The HC Libraries&#8217; ability to issue new cards may be limited due to COVID restrictions. <a href=\"http:\/\/hclibraries.ask.libraryh3lp.com\/questions\/32043\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Learn more about library access<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Short stories must be non-fiction and somehow answer the question, what does climate resilience look like in everyday life? Personal stories or stories about others are accepted.<\/li>\n<li>Participants must complete the digital submission form and may only submit one story. No paper entries will be accepted.<\/li>\n<li>Stories must be original and previously unpublished, including online blogs. Stories used for course or work assignments may be submitted as long as they were not published elsewhere.<\/li>\n<li>Please submit non-fiction stories with 1,500 words or less, in Times New Roman font size 12 and one-inch margins. Single, 1.5, or double spacing are all accepted. The title of the story should be in the header of each page, and stories must be written in English.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Notification of the Winner<\/strong><br \/>\nThe winner will be notified by Holy Cross\u2019 director of sustainability by mid-March. All contestants will be notified shortly thereafter, via the email address provided during submission.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Award<\/strong><br \/>\nThe winning story will get added to <a href=\"https:\/\/crossworks.holycross.edu\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">CrossWorks<\/a>, Holy Cross\u2019 open access institutional repository. In addition, the contest winner will receive $250 and an announcement on the Libraries\u2019 Newsfeed.<\/p>\n<p>The Climate Resilient Everyday Short Story Contest is financially supported by a grant from the Resilient Communities program within the American Library Association.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Submission Due Date:<\/strong> February 24, 2021<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/SXbQr3tadV4KPASE6\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Submit your short story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyday, ordinary people are making decisions to fortify their livelihood and personal values against the possible negative impacts of climate change &#8211; The family making an emergency kit with essential supplies for an upcoming extreme weather event; the teen lobbying for an idling truck policy to limit poor air quality days; the employee participating in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/sustainability\/2021\/01\/04\/climate-resilient-everyday-short-story-contest\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Climate Resilient Everyday Short Story Contest&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5,14,16,17],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability","tag-campus-engagement","tag-public-engagement","tag-resilient-communities","tag-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}