For the last year and a half, our Voices of Courage project has been telling a story a day. As we are close to publishing our 500th story, we have an exciting opportunity for your voice to heard!
From now until noon EDT on May 25, you can enter to compete to be our 500th story. Tell us about a time when you needed birth control, prenatal care, an STI test, a cancer screening, an abortion, or informed options about your sexual and reproductive health – and whether you got the care you needed, or something got in the way.
We will choose a winning story that best inspires, breaks down stigma and illustrates the importance reproductive health care as part of our everyday lives. The winner will have their story published as our 500th story brought to life in a comic strip by graphic artist Magnolia Porter. If you win the competition, your story will also be showcased at our Voices of Courage Benefit on June 11, and you will also receive a signed copy of your comic by artist Magnolia Porter!
You can enter into the competition by submitting your story though our online form or through our story hotline by texting 858-683-3491
Submit Your Story
Rules of Competition
- To enter into the competition, your story must be submitted and received by 12:00 noon EDT on May 25, 2018.
- All submitted stories must be the original work of the writer whose name is listed on the submission form and be in English. To be eligible, your story cannot: (ii) include illustrations or photographs; (iii) include quotations without attribution; (iii) exceed 500 words in length.
- To participate, you must be at least eighteen years of age.
- Entries must be submitted on our online form or through our story hotline by texting 858-683-3491.
- Physicians for Reproductive Health judges will choose a winning story that best inspires, breaks down stigma and illustrates the importance reproductive health care as part of our everyday lives. For example, the story can tell us about a time when you needed birth control, prenatal care, an STI test, a cancer screening, an abortion, or learned about sexual and reproductive health options, and whether the needed care was provided or whether something got in the way. The criteria are the content and quality of the story (60%) and presentation (40%), including writing quality and organization. The judges’ decision is final.
- The ownership of a submission remains the property of the entrant, but entry into the competition constitutes the entrant’s consent, without compensation, with or without attribution, for us to use, reproduce, transmit, post, distribute, adapt, edit, and display the submission, including without limitation posting it on the Voices of Courage platform and use it in promotion of our storytelling campaign including website and social media platforms.
- The prize to be awarded to the winner of the competition is a comic strip created by graphic artist Magnolia Porter that will bring the winning story to life (in the exercise of her sole artistic judgment) as a part of our new illustrated series This is Life, and the story will be showcased at the Voices of Courage Benefit on June 11. The winner will receive a signed copy of the comic strip by artist Magnolia Porter.
- By participating, to the extent permitted by law, each participant agrees to release, discharge, and hold harmless Physicians for Reproductive Health, Inc., its affiliates, and subsidiaries, the competition judges and the officers, directors, trustees, employees, agents, and representatives of the foregoing (collectively, the “Released Parties”) from any and all injuries, liability, losses, and damages of any kind to persons, including death, or property damage resulting, in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, from participation in the competition or any competition-related activity or the acceptance, possession, use, or misuse of the awarded prize. To the extent permitted by law, Released Parties are not responsible for errors, whether or not beyond their reasonable control, lost, late, incomplete, damaged, inaccurate, illegible, delayed, misdirected, or undelivered stories or for errors or difficulties of any kind, relating to the competition, including, without limitation, errors that may occur in connection with the administration of the competition, the processing or judging of stories, the announcement of the prize, or in any competition-related materials.
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