Are you a student or recent alumni of the Murphy Institute? Well we want your essays!
New Labor Forum, the Murphy Institute’s journal of ideas, analysis and debate, is excited to announce a new Essay Contest for currently enrolled students and alumni that have graduated in the past two years.
We invite original essays (neither previously published, nor under consideration for publication elsewhere) on a wide range of topics regarding contemporary working-class life and communities, the politics and policies bearing on those communities, and worker organizing taking place in and outside of organized labor.
Essays may be first person accounts, or scholarly and analytical pieces. We encourage fresh thinking on crucial challenges, provocative and well-grounded arguments, and/or efforts to wrestle with new and concrete information. Contributors should avoid jargon, assumptions, technical language, “academese,” and well-worn rhetoric. For examples of past NLF articles, visit our website.
Editorial guidelines:
Interested students should submit to Samantha.Valente@cuny.edu by
December 19, 2017:
- An original essay between 1,500 to 2,000 words,
- Short author bio
- Submissions must be double-spaced and in 12-point Times New Roman font.
- Please spell out full titles and put acronyms in parentheses at their first use, including commonly used union acronyms.
- Where endnotes (please do not use footnotes or references) are necessary, please refer to the Chicago Manual of Style.
The winning essay will be published in the May 2018 issue of New Labor Forum and will be featured on the NLF website. The winner will also receive a one-year subscription to New Labor Forum.
The winning author will be notified by March 6, 2018. The winning essay will be judged by the journal editors. All decisions made by the judges regarding the winners will be final.
For more information, please contact Samantha.Valente@cuny.edu.
