Essay Contest
2025 Essay Contest
Submissions for the 2025 Essay Contest will open on May 1, 2025 and close on January 31, 2026.
We are proud to host a blind-reviewed essay contest! Essays written for class during 2025 from any major at any level will be reviewed by faculty judges from across campus.
- Students may submit one essay, up to 25 pages, per category in up to two categories.
- Starting in 2025, we have a new category (Category 5: Creative Writing).
- All submissions for this category should still be works written for a TXST course.
- Category 1: 1000-level courses
- Category 2: 2000-level courses
- Category 3**: 3000 & 4000-level courses
- Category 4**: 5000- to 7000-level courses
- Category 5: Creative Writing
Current or past UWC employees are ineligible.
**You may not submit a thesis.
Questions regarding the Essay Contest can be directed to writingctr@txstate.edu.