The Sport Literature Association announces its annual Lyle Olsen Graduate Student Essay Contest 2014. Essays must pertain in some way to the literature of sport as noted in the association’s journal, Aethlon.  All submissions
must be unpublished work. Original creative pieces, both fiction and non-fiction are not considered.  There is no word limit, but Aethlon articles do not generally exceed 25 manuscript pages.

Thewinner will receive a small stipend, publication in the peer-reviewed journal, a year’s subscription to same, and some travel moniesto attend and present the paper at the annual conference in June 2014 at the College
of the Rockies in Cranbrook, British Columbia. Enter electronically, emailing your work to Carina Staudte at staudte.sla@gmail.com,with a copy to Richard McGehee at rmcgehee@utexas.edu

Entries should be received no later than March 1, 2014. For questions and further information also visit the website at http://www.uta.edu/english/sla/conference.html or send an e-mail to staudte.sla@gmail.com