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It is much better to be tied to one wonderful thing than to allow a mere catalog of wonderful things to deprive you of the capacity to wonder.
G. K. Chesterton
Of all forms of literature, however, the essay is the one which least calls for the use of long words.
Virginia Woolf
Were we to illuminate the most ordinary, common, and familiar of things, then the greatest miracles of nature and the most marvelous examples, especially concerning human actions, might be formed.
Michel de Montaigne
Others have taken heart to speak of themselves because they found the subject worthy and rich; I, on the contrary, because I have found mine so pointless and so meager that no one could suspect me of ostentation.
Michel de Montaigne
Everything I see or hear is an essay in bud. The world is everywhere whispering essays, and one need only be the world’s amanuensis.
Alexander Smith
[The "light" essay] offers no instruction, save through the medium of enjoyment, and one saunters lazily along with a charming unconsciousness of effort.
Agnes Repplier
The task of the essayist is to collect the fruit of his experience, reflect on it, and set it out for our consideration.
Ian Jack
The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new.
Alexander Smith
And on the loftiest throne in the world we are still sitting only on our own rump.
Michel de Montaigne
One can tie up all moral philosophy with an ordinary and private life just as easily as with a life of richer stuff: Each person bears the entire form of the human condition.
Michel de Montaigne
As it maps the territory of the self, the essay details the particulars of everyday life…. The wonder is not that art can be made of such ordinary stuff, but that we should expect it to be found anywhere else.
G. Douglas Atkins
As for me … I enjoy living among pedestrians who have an instinctive and habitual realization that there is more to a journey than the mere fact of arrival.
E. B. White

Quarterly Essay Contest

On a Game

For the latest es­say con­test, you are in­vited to sub­mit a fa­mil­i­ar es­say on the sub­ject of a par­tic­u­lar game, sport, or oth­er activ­ity in which one plays. A small frac­tion of pos­sible sub­jects in­clude crick­et, vol­ley­ball, or golf; crib­bage, back­gam­mon, or chess; Pong, Don­key Kong, or Pokémon; four-square, kick­ball, or cap­ture the flag; Double Dutch, yo-yo, or charades; cro­quet, shuffle­board, or petanque.

  

The win­ning es­say will be pub­lished in the February, 2011 is­sue of The Ped­es­tri­an (On Play) and will re­ceive a $500 prize.
 

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Would you prefer to sub­mit an es­say on a dif­fer­ent as­pect of the theme of play? Or, per­haps, on an­oth­er sub­ject that relates to the theme only tan­gen­tially? The Ped­es­tri­an will con­sider for pub­lic­a­tion oth­er es­says that are out­side the scope of this con­test. Simply sub­mit your es­say as a gen­er­al sub­mis­sion.

We re­com­mend that con­test­ants take in­to con­sid­er­a­tion what The Ped­es­tri­an is about. The first is­sue of The Ped­es­tri­an has been released.

Deadline: Contest entries must be postmarked or e-mailed no later than September October 15, 2010.

The Pedestrian Essay Contest
PO Box 22468
Philadelphia, PA 19110
editor@thepedestrian.org
Subject Line: Play Essay Contest

Submissions should take into consideration The Pedestrian's submission guidlines.

Rules of Entry

The con­test is open to all par­ti­cipants, world­wide, where not pro­hib­ited by law. Sub­mis­sions must be writ­ten in Eng­lish (brief por­tions in oth­er lan­guages are per­mit­ted). The sub­mis­sion must be an ori­gin­al work and not pre­vi­ously pub­lished. Sub­mis­sion of a work gives The Ped­es­tri­an the right to pub­lish the work in print and on­line if, and only if, the work is chosen as the win­ning entry and the prize re­ceived. Writers may sub­mit more than one entry. Entry in­to the con­test sig­ni­fies ac­cept­ance of these rules.

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