2024 Writing for Social Justice Competition

Planting People Growing Justice Leadership Institute (PPGJLI) is requesting manuscripts for our Writing for Social Justice Competition. The winners will receive a $3,000 award and a copy of the published children's book. This opportunity is made possible as PPGJLI was awarded a Cultural Heritage Grant in the amount of $136,000 from the Minnesota Humanities Center. 

Criteria: MN resident of African Descent and be 18+

Topics: Fiction--Picture book on Juneteenth, Rondo, or Black Joy

Nonfiction: Short Biography highlighting a Minnesota hero or shero: Dr. Josie Johnson, Roy Wilkins, August Wilson

SUBMISSIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED THROUGH OCTOBER 1, 2024

This work is funded in part by MHC with money from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund that was created with the vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008.