Dorothy Clarke Wilson Peace Writing Prize 2019

Dorothy Clarke Wilson of Orono, Maine was an internationally known peacemaker who was committed to writing on social issues and world peace.  To encourage today’s University of Maine students to share in the commitment, Dorothy Clarke Wilson established a $500 annual award for the most compelling written work on a peace related topic. This competition is open to all University of Maine students.

2019 Topic

“God grant that the people of good will will rise up with courage, take over the leadership, and open channels of communication between races, for I think that one of the tragedies of our whole struggle is that the South is still trying to live in monologue, rather than dialogue, and I am convinced that men hate each other because they fear each other. They fear each other because they don’t know each other and they don’t know each other because they don’t communicate with each other, and they don’t communicate with each other because they are separated from each other. And God grant that something will happen to open channels of communication, that something will happen because men of good will will rise to the level of leadership.”  

—from an address by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Cornell College, Mount Vernon, Iowa, October 15, 1962

2019 Winner of the Dorothy Clarke Wilson Peace Writing Prize: Gabrielle Sands

Peace Writing Prize winner Gabrielle Sands
Rebecca Liberty, Wilson Center Director; Gabrielle Sands, 2019 Peace Writing Prize winner; John Maddaus, Wilson Center board representative

Read her winning piece here:

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Updated
3.5.19

View last year’s topic and winners here.