Competitors will submit their works on the importance of freedom for the Bastiat Prize for Journalism.

The Reason Foundation is presenting the 12th Annual Bastiat Prize for Journalism. The prize is named after Frédéric Bastiat, the classical liberal essayist whose writings on free markets, political economy and individual rights remain a touchstone in libertarian thought.

Submissions are judged by their intellectual coherence, persuasiveness, wit and creativity, relevance, clarity and simplicity and wider impact.

Participants can enter more than one article, but the materials should be no more than 5,000 words combined. Articles must have been published for the first time between July 1, 2012 and June 30, 2013.

The Bastiat Prize is open to all writers, anywhere in the world; writers need not be full-time journalists or associated with any specific publication.

The first place winner will receive US$10,000, and second and third places will receive US$5,000 and US$1,000, respectively.

The deadline is July 31.

For more information, click here: http://reason.org/news/show/bastiat-prize-2013