Readers Write

December 28, 2023

The Century invites readers to submit first-person narratives (under 1,000 words) on the following topics:

Help (Deadline: February 1, 2024)

Seed (Deadline: May 1, 2024)

A selection of submissions will be published in the print or web magazine. Authors of the selected essays will receive $100 and a free one-year subscription to the magazine.

Send essays to contest@christiancentury.org.

This series is supported by a grant from the Frederick Buechner Center, which celebrates the work of the essayist, novelist, and pastor.

Against killing children

We have become a society of people who cannot prevent our own children from being killed in their classrooms—and who do not much mind the killing of other people’s children by weapons of war.

by Wendell Berry