Call for Submissions

Wisconsin Humanities Council (WHC) invites scholars, writers, and creative thinkers from all disciplines and professions to submit essays for two WHC-sponsored features in Wisconsin People & Ideas (formerly The Wisconsin Academy Review).

The first feature, The Humanities Moment, asks writers to ruminate on a life defining moment, one in which the humanities played a transformative role (i.e. your discovery of a life-changing novel, a historian's lecture that swayed your political allegiance, a childhood trip to a museum, an anthropologist's visit to your family farm, etc.) The use of humor is encouraged. Payment is $200 with a 1,200-word maximum.

The second feature, The Public Scholar, asks humanities scholars and professionals to write engaging, entertaining, and compelling essays on any topic. The purpose of these essays is to demonstrate to a non-academic audience the vitality of humanities scholarship and the relevance of the humanities to pressing contemporary issues. Authors are encouraged to think provocatively and creatively—essays with titles such as "Huck Finn and John Ashcroft: American Boyhoods" and "Brett Favre as Greek Mythological Hero" are welcome. Payment is $350 with a 2,700-word maximum.

THE NEXT DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS AUGUST 15, 2006.

Send submissions to:

Masarah Van Eyck
Wisconsin Humanities Council
222 S. Bedford St., Suite F
Madison, WI 53703

Please include a daytime phone number and an e-mail address with your submission.

The selection process is competitive and submissions become property of the Wisconsin Humanities Council. Excerpts from the published essays may be reprinted on the WHC Web site, and in development and publicity materials.

The Wisconsin Humanities Council
The Wisconsin Humanities Council is the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Since 1972, the WHC has served the people of Wisconsin through both a grant program and humanities projects of its own. Its mission is to create opportunities for all the people of Wisconsin to engage in critical exploration of the histories, arts, ideas, and values of their own and other communities.