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Attention students! Funny stories can net you cash from Leacock Associates

Three cash prizes of $1,000, $700 and $300 are offered to help winners with post-secondary education costs
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NEWS RELEASE
STEPHEN LEACOCK ASSOCIATES
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Stephen Leacock Associates (the organization that awards the Leacock Medal for Humour) is calling for submissions of humorous essays from secondary school and college students aged 14 to 19. 

Three cash prizes of $1,000, $700 and $300 are offered that will help the winners with their university or college education. Essays must be no more than 1,500 words in length, and must be submitted by April 15, 2021. Details of the competition are given at www.leacock.ca/studentaward.php.

Providing COVID-19 restrictions permit it, the winners will read their essays at the Meet the Authors event in Orillia on June 4, 2021, where they will also be able to meet the finalists for the Leacock Medal for Humour.

Further inquiries may also be made to the contest registrar, Christine Spear, at [email protected].

The Leacock Medal and its associated student awards are sponsored by the Dunkley Charitable Foundation.  For more information about the Leacock Medal and Stephen Leacock Associates, please visit our website here

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