Gilda’s Club Northern New Jersey (Gilda’s Club NNJ) is hosting its second annual It’s Always Something Teen Essay Contest to encourage high school teens to write an engaging, heartfelt essay that focuses on the impact cancer has had on their lives.
Entries will be reviewed by a panel of celebrity judges and five winners will be selected.
Celebrity Judges Panel:
- Harlan Coben, New York Times best-selling author and Ridgewood resident
- Deirdre Imus, author, philanthropist, children’s health advocate and Gilda’s Club NNJ board member
- Lori Stokes, Emmy award-winning news anchor for ABC Eyewitness News and Tenafly resident
- Jeff Feagles, former punter for the New York Giants and Ridgewood resident
Prizes:
First-place: Laptop computer
Runner-up: iPod and a $50 iTunes gift card
Third-place: iPod
Honorable mentions (2 selected): $100 gift card
Essays and completed contest entry forms may be submitted by regular mail, postmarked by Friday, April 29, or by email, no later than 5 p.m. Monday, May 2. Essays must be typed, double spaced and no more than 1,000 words. Please mail entries to Brooke Laster, Gilda’s Club NNJ, 575 Main Street, Hackensack, NJ, 07601 or email to blaster@gildasclubnnj.org. Students in grades 9-12 are eligible to enter. All contest entrants will be invited with their families to a ceremony on Wednesday, May 18 at the Hackensack clubhouse. Winners and prizes will be announced at the ceremony.
For contest flyer and entry form, click here.
ABOUT GILDA’S CLUB NORTHERN NEW JERSEY
Gilda’s Club Northern New Jersey is a cancer-support community serving 12 counties in North Jersey as well as southern Rockland County, and is part of an international network of affiliate clubhouses anchored by Gilda’s Club Worldwide. All services at the Hackensack-based clubhouse, from lectures and workshops to support groups and social events, are open to anyone – men, women, children and teens – who has been touched in any way by cancer, and are completely free of charge. For further information or to make a donation, visit http://www.gildasclubnnj.org or call (201) 457-1670.
