Material / Image Research Lab (MIRL)

The Metropole, The Official Blog of the Urban History Association, has announced it’s graduate student blogging contest.

The contest will open on July 1 and will close on August 15. Entries must be submitted to themetropole@urbanhistory.org. Posts will run on the blog in August and September, and we will announce the winners in October. Finalists will have their entries reviewed by three award-winning historians. The winning blog post will receive $100.

Contest Guidelines

1. Contest entrants must be enrolled in a graduate program.
2. Contest entrants must be members of the UHA. A one-year membership for graduate students costs $25 and includes free online access to the Journal of Urban History.
3. Contest submissions must be original posts not published elsewhere on the web.
4. Contest submissions must be in the form of an essay related to the theme: “stretch.” Essays can be about current research, historiography (but not book reviews), or methodology.
5. We encourage contest entrants to read Lessons Learned from Three Years of the Blogging Contest. Essays that stick to the following criteria will be most successful:
   1. Write for a non-academic audience and assume no prior knowledge.
   2. Don’t try to do too much: focus on one argument, intervention, or event.
   3. Spend more time showing than telling.
6. Posts must be received by the editors (themetropole@urbanhistory.org) by August 15, 2020 at 11:59 PM EST to be eligible for the contest.
7. Posts should be at least 700 words, but not exceed 2000 words.
8. Links or footnotes must be used to properly attribute others’ scholarship and reporting. The Metropole follows the Chicago Manual of Style for citation formatting.

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