It’s that time of year again for the JASNA Annual Student Essay Contest.
The theme this year is “Jane Austen’s first published novel, Sense and Sensibility” to match this years AGM.
From JASNA:
Family relations loom large in this book, and Austen has more than one story to tell, with four sets of siblings and notable mothers. Essays can focus on relations between siblings or pairs of siblings, between mothers and their offspring, or perhaps on characteristics (apart from sense and sensibility) embodied by a related or unrelated pair.
A PDF of the family tree is available here.
The contest is open to all students from high school to graduate school. You do not need to be a member of JASNA to enter.
The deadline for submissions is Thursday, June 2, 2022. For more information, visit the submissions page.
Per the entrance information page, JASNA awards scholarships to winners in three divisions:
- First Place: $1,000 scholarship and free registration and two nights’ lodging for JASNA’s upcoming Annual General Meeting (Transportation to the conference is not provided.)
- Second Place: $500 scholarship
- Third Place: $250 scholarship
The winners will receive a single year memeber to JASNA, a set of Norton’s Critical Editions of Austen’s work, and the winning essay will be published on JASNA’s website.
For more information, FAQs, guidelines, and previous winners, visit the information page for the essay contest.
