School of Coastal Resilience
School of Coastal Resilience
The Mississippi Everyday Heroisms Project seeks to nurture and gather narratives about Southern Mississippi heroism and resilience from students, faculty, and community members and then house them permanently on the USM website. This student and community outreach program will cultivate and document the heroisms of everyday life in our region.
The associated writing contest is for USM students, who will submit narratives of resilience and regional true stories about everyday heroism. The narratives will be 600-1000 words, and the plan is ultimately to archive them on a perpetual, dedicated usm.edu webpage. The student writing contest will facilitate the development of this online archive to be called The Mississippi Everyday Heroisms Project, and ideally, these narratives could accrue in perpetuity as a representation of Mississippi Coastal Resilience.
The Mississippi Everyday Heroes Project Writing Contest is funded by Academic Affairs at the University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Coast.
Eligibility: The Mississippi Everyday Heroes Project Writing Contest is open to all current undergraduate
students at the University of Southern Mississippi. All entries must be original works.
Submissions should not have been previously published.
Damon Franke, Associate Professor
School of Coastal Resilience
University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Coast
Long Beach, MS 39560