Communicating About Water Reception

“Whiskey is for drinking, water is for fighting over”

Mark Twain

In Wyoming, water issues have dominated politics, community relationships, agriculture, natural resources and more.

The Creative Writing MFA Program, Wyoming EPSCoR, and the new Wyoming Center for Environmental Hydrology and Geophysics (WyCEHG) invited students to participate in this ever growing conversation about water in our state through a writing contest.

Students will be reading from their winning essays on Thursday, May 1^st starting at 5:30pm in the Berry Center Auditorium.

By bridging the sciences and humanities through thoughtful dialog, Wyoming EPSCoR hopes to continue to grow these conversations about water and other natural resource issues throughout the state.

We invite you to join us for this evening to celebrate student writing and Wyoming water! 

Photo by Robin Rasmussen

Communicating About Water Essay Contest

Wyoming EPSCoR is hosting an essay contest for undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Wyoming and Wyoming community colleges. This contest is through the Communicating About Water Program, which is intended to increase awareness and dialogue about water issues throughout the state.  EPSCoR has teamed up with the Wyoming Center for Environmental Hydrology and Geophysics (WyCEHG) and the Creative Writing MFA Program to invite students to join in the ever-growing discussion about water in the state of Wyoming. “This writing contest is intended to increase discussion and awareness about water issues among Wyoming students,” says Liz Nysson, project coordinator.

The contest will feature two categories, undergraduate and graduate non-fiction essay. Entries in the undergraduate division must be 500-2000 words, and entries in the graduate division must be 1000-5000 words.

The top prize in each category will be $500, publication in an anthology for all award winners and honorable mentions, and other honors, including a public reading.

Entries can range in a variety of topics related to water. EPSCoR encourages students to explore water issues in any way that is relevant to their lives, studies, or personal experiences.

The deadline for the essay contest is March 21^st, 2014. Submissions can be sent to communicating.about.water@gmail.com. Submissions must be in the form of a word document with 12-point font and double-spaced. They must also include a cover page with the essay title, your name, year in school, W-number and contact information. For more information about the writing contest, please visit our website. 

By Robin Rasmussen