Deadline to enter S-R Youth Outdoor Writing Contest is Nov. 22

The deadline for entering The Spokesman-Review’s 2005 Youth Outdoor Writing Contest for high school students is 5 p.m. on Nov. 22.

The contest is open to high school students from the newspaper’s general circulation area. Entries must be on the general topic of “outdoors.”

This includes subjects such as hiking, camping, fishing, hunting, boating, nature and conservation. Any literary style — including humor, fiction, letters or poetry — is acceptable in both contests.

Other contest rules are as follows:

•Contestants must be in grades 9-12 and from the newspaper circulation area in Eastern Washington or North Idaho.

•Stories must be original and may be no longer than 1,000 words.

•All entries should include the writer’s name, school, grade, home address and telephone number.

•Stories should be typed.

•Limit is one entry per student.

Entries can be mailed or delivered to The Spokesman-Review or e-mail to richl@spokesman.com.

Contact: Rich Landers, Outdoors editor, 459-5508.