Prize winners receive an expense paid trip (airfare, 2 nights hotel, meal allowance of $100, and K/BIS Show & Conference registration fees) to the 2008 K/BIS held in McCormick Place, Chicago, Ill., April 11th – 13th. Winners will be honored at an event during the 2008 K/BIS.

Who Can Enter

Applicants must be registered as a NKBA Student Member attending as a full or part time student at an NKBA Supported or Endorsed Program (essays from graduating students will be accepted if the postmark is prior to graduation and received before the deadline)
Minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0 for prior term to submission
The submitting student must be the sole author and the essay may not have been created or written, in whole or in part, for a school assignment

Submission Procedures

Essays must be typed, double-spaced and may not exceed 1000 words or 4 pages (whichever is less) Submit 4 copies of the essay plus a signed cover sheet with the following:

Name of student submitting essay
Address
Telephone home and cell
Email, fax
Name of Supported/Endorsed Program
Cumulative GPA
Signature of Student and Dated

Statement indicating that: the essay is solely the work of the submitter, that the submitter waives any future rights to the essay (copyright to K+BB & the NKBA), that the essay was written exclusively for the competition and has not been created or written in whole or in part, for a school assignment.

Participants must submit the essay to NKBA (see mailing instructions below) to be postmarked by February 1, 2008.

Rules and Regulations

Mail completed essay entries to NKBA/K+BB 2008 Essay Contest, 687 Willow Grove Street, Hackettstown, N.J., 07840. Entries must be postmarked by February 1, 2008. The NKBA or K+BB are not responsible for illegible, lost, late, damaged, incomplete, stolen, postage-due, or misdirected mail or entries.

The essay becomes the property of K+BB and the NKBA and may not be published or submitted elsewhere without the express written approval of the competition hosts. At the same time, K+BB and the NKBA will be entitled to reprint the essay, in whole or in part, in any publication without further permission.