The Felix Morley Journalism Competition will not be held for the 2006-07 school year. Please check back next year for updates.
Overview
In honor of the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Felix Morley, IHS will award cash prizes of up to $2,500 to outstanding young writers whose work best demonstrates and communicates an appreciation of classical liberal principles. A distinguished panel of reporters, writers, and editors will judge submissions based on writing ability, potential to succeed in journalism, and an appreciation of liberty.
Prizes include $2,500 for 1st Place, $1,000 for 2nd Place, $750 for 3rd Place, and $250 each for runners up. Awards will be announced in March 2006.
Competition Rules
Application Deadline: December 1, 2006
To apply for the Felix Morley Journalism Competition, complete the online application, which requires a short registration process (even if you previously registered with us) and allows online document uploads of your published items. If you do not have electronic versions of your articles/clips, you may also mail them to IHS. The application for the 2006-07 Competition will be available by the summer of 2006.
1. Applicants must be full-time students of any age (graduates, undergraduates, or high school students) during the 2006-07 school year, or be 25 years of age or younger as of December 1, 2006.
2. Applicants must complete and submit an entry form online no later than December 1, 2006.
3. Applicants must submit clippings or legible copies of three to five separate items published between July 1, 2005 and December 1, 2006. These may be uploaded through our online application or sent to us by mail, postmarked no later than December 1, 2006 at Morley Journalism Competition, Institute for Humane Studies, 3301 N. Fairfax Dr., #440, Arlington, VA 22201.
a) Publications qualifying for consideration include editorials, op-eds, articles, essays, and reviews. Applicants are encouraged to submit news and feature pieces in student newspapers, magazines or other periodicals for consideration. “Blog” entries will not be considered.
b) Each item must include the publication’s name and date of publication.
c) At least two of the submitted items should explore or apply classical liberal principles (such as individual rights and free markets); the balance may, if an applicant chooses, be qualifying publications that do not take up classical liberal themes but indicate the applicant’s range and quality of writing.
d) All publications must be in English. Translations will not be accepted.
4. Applicants must submit a resume listing academic and professional experience, academic honors and awards, extracurricular activities, and publications. The resume must be submitted online.
5. Winners of first, second, and third prizes in last year’s competition are not eligible for this year’s competition.
6. The decision of the judges is final. IHS reserves the right to not award a prize.
About Felix Morley
Felix Morley was editor of the Washington Post from 1933 to 1940 and a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Editorial Writing. After serving as president of Haverford College in Pennsylvania, he returned to writing political commentary and political philosophy, with an emphasis on private property, voluntarism, and a noninterventionist foreign policy. Among his books are The Power in the People, Freedom and Federalism, and his autobiography, For the Record. Competitors in the Felix Morley Journalism Competition are judged on demonstrated writing ability, potential for development as a writer, and appreciation of classical liberal principles evidenced in submitted publications. Classical liberal principles include: inalienable individual rights; their protection through the institutions of private property, contract, and the rule of law; voluntarism in all human relations; and the self-ordering market, free trade, free migration, and peace.