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Now accepting entries for the 2022 Anthem and The Fountainhead essay contests!

Are you teaching an Ayn Rand novel this school year? Why not encourage your students to enter the Ayn Rand Institute’s annual essay contest on that novel?

ARI has held student essay contests on Ayn Rand’s fiction for more than thirty years, awarding over $2 million in total prize money to students around the world! This year we will award more than $40,000 in prizes to hundreds of student winners.

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