In "Resurrecting the Champ," a new movie opening August 24, an up-and-coming sports reporter encounters a homeless man who provides him with the inspiration to write a groundbreaking story.
Inspiration can come from a variety of different places, from a friend or family member going through a troubled time, to an athlete, author or religious figure. Who inspires you? Share your story on Gather and your essay could be published in an upcoming issue of Venice Magazine!
How to Enter
It’s easy to participate in the “Resurrecting the Champ†Essay Contest! First, join the Gather Essentials: Movies group on Gather at movies.gather.com. Join now!
Next, post your 400- to 500-word essay describing who inspires you and why. Just follow these quick steps (multiple entries are allowed):
- Click on “Publish†at the top of any Gather page
- Select Publish an Article
- Enter your title, and type your entry directly into the body of the submission page, or copy and paste it if you have written it elsewhere
- In the “Tags†field, you must insert the tag “champ,†separated from any other words by a comma; enter other tags if you like, then click “Continueâ€
- Under “Who can view my article,†you must select “Everyone†and the "Gather Essentials: Movies†group
- Click “Publishâ€
The Gather Editorial Team will select one (1) Grand Prize winning entry based on originality, creativity, and appropriateness to topic.
All entries must be received by 11:59pm on August 19, 2007. The Grand Prize Winner will be announced on August 24, 2007.
Read the Official Contest RulesÂ
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Comments: 69
Check out this video about the contest!!!
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I know when I read these, it will be Kleenex time. My own is very emotional.
Great idea.
You can go to movies.gather.com, and then click "Join this Group" on the left-hand side of the page. Thanks!
My advice is not to be concerned about what the magazine is looking for, and to concentrate on writing an essay that has meaning to you. Thanks!
Regards,
Doyle I <~~~~~
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977085319
Waiting to get inspired by you!
Sorry, but I got stung by that one too many times!
S.
I would insert a picture of her if I knew how. I will find out how to insert a picture.
Regards,
Doyle I <~~~~~
I am a writer who formerly lived in Ethiopia. I am white, which means nothing. I have cracked a mystery, which I have been working on for nearly six years, and I don't believe unless I get some professional media and public relations assistance on this story ... I'm ever going to be able to "sell it," perhaps for obvious reasons.
The disciple whom Jesus loved ... was an African. And it gets better.
Please check out this link to my website and then write me.
http://tanata.squarespace.com/journal/2007/8/16/does-it-matter-if-the-disciple-whom-jesus-loved-was-an-afric.html
God bless. This ought to be an interesting ride ... for the Lord.
Randall Carter Gray
Signal Mountain, Tennessee
Near Chattanooga: Usher's and Samuel L. Jackson's old stomping grounds
http://tanata.squarespace.com
If you read the article and the rules, you will see that there is no voting involved. This is what we call at Gather an "editorial pick" where our Editorial Team selects a winner based on originality, creativity, and appropriateness to topic. Thanks for your questions!
Regards,
Doyle I <~~~~~
One of those men uttered a sentence which taught me more about linguistic expression than I'd learned in six years of school. He used every swear word I knew, and one I'd never heard before, to describe a pennypincher I knew.
I'd been taught swear words weren't expressive and to never use them. Yet, here was a person who used them freely, and in original context, to describe a trait of another person in a unique manner. Years later I recall his comment word for word. When I find myself having trouble writing something in a fresh voice, I remember how it is possible to use even common vulgarity for pinpoint description.
Riding in the front seat of a truck, with an angry cat battering at the lid of the box I held, I learned how communication can take many forms.
In this venue, I'll only say it was the first time I ever heard of a person being too stingy to pay a small sum to watch a religious figure ride a bicycle up a hill backward.
Yesterday, I wrote the story of the truck ride as part of an autobiography. Today I found this contest, which it is too late to enter.
Tom the Cat survived the ride, lived to sire many cats in his new town, but never again tolerated being placed in a box.
Good Luck to those who were here to enter. I hope to read some inspiring entries.
~~Becka
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