Writing: Contests, Omnibus, and Summer Reading
The New York Times
Choose something in The New York Times that got your attention and tell us why — via a short written or video response.
Here’s how the contest works:
Every Friday for 10 weeks beginning on June 7, we will publish a post asking the same question: “What got your attention in The Times this week?” That’s where you should submit your response any time until the following Friday at 9 a.m. Eastern, when we will close that post and open a new one that asks the same question. On Aug. 9 we’ll post our final question of the summer, open until 9 a.m. on Aug. 16.
You can enter every week, or any week, all summer long, but you may only submit once each week.
You can always find the proper link to the place to submit at the top of this page, updated each week. Once the contest begins, you can also find it on our home page. Please see the How to Submit section below for more details.You can choose anything you like that was published in the print paper or on nytimes.com in 2024, including articles, Opinion and guest essays, videos, graphics, photos and podcasts. To see the variety of topics winners have responded to over the years, read this column.
Then tell us what Times piece you chose and why it got your attention via a 250-word essay OR a 90-second video. See the full Rules and Guidelines for each type of response below. We have a contest rubric, as well as a guide for students that details four simple ways to make your response stand out.
We’ll choose winners each week, and every Tuesday during the contest, starting June 25, we’ll publish them in a separate post, which you can find here.
