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STUDENT ESSAY PRIZE<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">Deadline: April 12, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">The
Program Committee for the Sport Literature Association invites submission of
research papers to be considered for the annual Lyle Olsen Graduate Student
Essay Prize. The winner will receive a year’s membership in the Sport
Literature Association and a small cash stipend, present the paper at the
Association conference, and have the paper published in <i>Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature</i>. Students currently
enrolled in a graduate program in any field of study are eligible and
encouraged to submit a paper. Small travel stipends for the conference may also
be available. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">Scholarly
and critical submissions for the Lyle Olsen Graduate Student Essay Contest
should follow general guidelines set forth in the association’s publication, <i>Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature,</i>
which “celebrate[s] the intersection of literature with the world of play,
games, and sport.” Submissions “should address treatments of sport in texts or
textual media (print, film, performance, digital or other media).” We invite
essays on sport literature (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, or film), on
the rhetoric of sport, or on cultural-studies approaches to sport texts. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Please note also that the purpose of
the Association is to forward the appreciation and knowledge of the literature
surrounding sport and that all presentations should have a connection to the
literature.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">Those
interested in being considered for the prize should send a completed paper by
April 12, 2023, to the contest chair, Mark D. Noe, at <a href="mailto:markdnoe@comcast.net">markdnoe@comcast.net</a>. Submissions must include the author’s name,
phone number, postal and email addresses, paper title, and a 250-word abstract.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Script;color:black;background:white;">Joyce Duncan</span></b><b style=""><span style="font-size:16.0pt;"></span></b></div>
Dr. Joyce Duncan<br>
Faculty, ETSU, Ret.<br>
Managing Editor, Sport Literature Association<br>
Box 70270 ETSU, Johnson City, TN 37614<br>
423-202-0937</div>
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