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Submit Your Work to the 2nd Annual Arête Award!
Are you a writer of essays, poetry, or fiction? Do you create short videos, or artwork? Submit your original creation to the Democracy Cafe’s 2nd Annual Arête Award! Multilingual submissions welcome (with translation).
Submit Your Work To: SocratesCafe@gmail.com
The Annual Alexander Phillips Arête Award
Presented by Democracy Cafe and Dr. Christopher Phillips
Welcome to the Democracy Cafe’s second annual Alexander Phillips Arête Award. This yearly event, launched on the first day of spring, the birthday of Alexander Phillips, who would have been 85 today, gives participants the opportunity to explore philosophical themes through essays, poetry, original artwork, and creative videos. Each year we ask participants to submit a piece based on a specific theme.
This year’s overarching theme is innocence, and the question to be explored is:
“How we do we cultivate our innocence?”
Submissions are currently open until June 21st 2019, the first day of summer.
Please note the following guidelines:
- Essays should be as carefully crafted as…
