Ayn Rand Essay Contest Scholarships

The Ayn Rand institute will award over $80,000 in scholarship prize money this year. Regardless of your year in school, you are invited to enter to win one of over 500 scholarship awards.

These contests are open to students worldwide. Essay must be no fewer than 800 and no more than 1,600 words in length, and must be typewritten and double-spaced. Only one entry per student is allowed.

Essays will be judged on both style and content. Judges will look for writing that is clear, articulate and logically organized. Winning essays must demonstrate an outstanding grasp of the philosophic meaning of the novel. Learn more at www.aynrand.org

ANTHEM Essay Contest
Anthem is a classic tale of a dark future age -- a world that deprives individuals of name, independence, and values. Written a full decade before 1984 by George Orwell, this dystopian novel depicts a man who seeks escape from a society in which individuality has been utterly destroyed.

- Read the book and choose an essay topic
- For 8th, 9th, and 10th graders only
- Hundreds of winners
- $2,000 top prize

THE FOUNTAINHEAD Essay Contest
The Fountainhead has become an enduring piece of literature, more popular now than when published in 1943. On the surface, it is a story of one man, Howard Roark, and his struggles as an architect in the face of a successful rival, Peter Keating, and a newspaper columnist, Ellsworth Toohey. But the book addresses a number of universal themes: the strength of the individual, the tug between good and evil, the threat of fascism.

- Read the book and choose an essay topic
- For 11th and 12th graders only
- Hundreds of winners
- $10,000 top prize

ATLAS SHRUGGED Essay Contest
Atlas Shrugged explores a dystopian United States where leading industrialists and businessmen refuse to allow the government to exploit their labor for the general good. The protagonist, Dagny Taggart, sees society collapse around her as the government increasingly asserts control over all industry, while the most productive citizens in society, led by the mysterious John Galt, progressively disappear.

- Read the book and choose an essay topic
- For 12th graders and college students only
- Hundreds of winners
- $10,000 top prize