Rules for Entry

Eligibility

1. Deadline: Submissions written in 2006 are now being accepted through 5 PM February 2nd, 2007.
2. Submissions should provide thoughtful reflection using gender as a category of analysis.
3. Works should also have a high-quality argument or discernable artistic merit.
4. All entries must be submitted in person to 14E-316, faxed to (617) 258-8635, or e-mailed to womens-studies@mit.edu.
5. This Prize is open only to MIT undergraduates. Cross-registered Harvard and Wellesley students are not eligible. Students who graduate at the end of the Fall Semester are eligible.
6. Participants may submit multiple entries.
7. Works originally written for classes are eligible, as are self- contained extracts from undergraduate theses. However, works that have been previously published or have been accepted for publication are not eligible.
8. Co-authored entries are acceptable, if all authors are MIT undergraduates at the time of submission.

Format

1. Entries must be submitted with a cover sheet.
2. The student's name must NOT appear on any page other than the cover page.
3. No member of the faculty can be thanked or named except as a citation in the work.
4. Works can be fiction or non-fiction and may be of any length.

Administrative Comments

1. Copyright remains with the author at all times.
2. Questions concerning the requirements for entries should be directed to womens-studies@mit.edu (x3-8844).
3. The program reserves the right not to award the prize when the submissions do not adequately fulfill the criteria.
4. The prize recipient will be announced in the first few weeks of spring term.