2024 Emerging Writers Essay Contest: Selected Winners

Look out for the selected essays from this year’s Emerging Writers Essay Contest with the Waterman Fund soon to be published in Appalachia Journal with Appalachian Mountain Club. Winner: “Old Friends in the Alpine” by Catherine Wessel Catherine Wessel is a field ecologist and recent graduate of the Field Naturalist Masters Program at University of…

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2016 Special Recognition Essays

In celebration of the National Park Centennial, the 2016 Waterman Fund Essay Contest invited emerging writers to explore stories and connections between wilderness and management of public lands through the lens of the National Park System. After much deliberation and review, the Essay Committee felt that, while the essay contest received many fine essays exploring…

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