2007 Essay Competition. 

November 2006 -- The Montreal Press Club and its participating sponsors are pleased to announce the second Robert Stewart Essay Competition for full-time undergraduates studying journalism, communications or public relations at an accredited Canadian university or community college or CEGEP. 

With prizes of $2,000, $1,500 and $1,000, it is believed to be the richest essay competition available to Canadian students on an annual basis. The competition opens for submissions on November 1, 2006 and closes on January 31, 2007. Essays must be between 1,000 and 1,200 words in English or French.  Winners will be announced on March 15, 2007.  This year's topic is "Honour". Contest rules and entry forms, can be found on the Montreal Press Club website at  www.mpc-cjm.org. 

The competition is intended to encourage the art of essay writing among a rising generation of communicators and to honour the memory of Robert Stewart - a much-loved member and long-serving officer of the Montreal Press Club who died in 2003. Stewart was a professional journalist, author  and essayist whose work gained him widespread respect both inside and outside the journalistic community. But some of his best writing appeared in the Royal Bank Letter - a  popular publication featuring brilliantly erudite essays on a broad range of topics which, at its zenith, reached some 450,000 readers every month in Canada and overseas. Examples of this work can be found on the RBC Financial Group website at rbc.com (news and information/publications/rbcletter). 

The Robert Stewart Essay Competition is sponsored by the RBC Financial Group, the Railway Association of Canada, The Gazette  (Montreal).