{"id":118480,"date":"2025-10-13T13:48:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T17:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakaymedia.org\/?p=118480"},"modified":"2025-10-13T23:21:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T03:21:22","slug":"lakay-media-lance-la-4e-edition-du-concours-de-texte-ma-plume-contre-le-racisme-et-le-profilage-racial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakaymedia.org\/en\/lakay-media-lance-la-4e-edition-du-concours-de-texte-ma-plume-contre-le-racisme-et-le-profilage-racial\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakay Media launches the 4th edition of the writing competition \u201cMy pen against racism and racial profiling\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>PRESS RELEASE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>For immediate release <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Date: October 13, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Montreal, QC \u2014 <strong>Lakay Media announces the official launch of the 4th edition of the writing competition \u201cMy pen against racism and racial profiling\u201d, under the theme \u00abOur voices in the face of silence\u00bb.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This competition, which has become an essential event for high school students, invites students to express their thoughts, emotions and experiences regarding the realities of racism and racial profiling through the power of words.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A platform for young voices<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Aimed at high school students in the greater Montreal and Lanaudi\u00e8re region, the competition encourages literary creation in all its forms\u2014poem, slam, narrative, or argumentative text. The goal: to offer a space for expression and peaceful resistance, where every word becomes an act of courage and humanity.<\/p>\n<p>\u00abOur young people have powerful voices. This competition allows them to transform their experiences, their anger or their hope into a work that brings about change,\u00bb emphasizes the Lakay Media team.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Important Dates<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Deadline for submitting texts: February 6, 2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Awards ceremony: March 28, 2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prizes to be won<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Six prizes will be awarded to recognize the creativity and depth of the texts:<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 1st prize of the 1st cycle: 500 $<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 2nd prize of the 1st cycle: 250 $<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 1st prize of the 2nd cycle: 500 $<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 2nd prize of the 2nd cycle: 250 $<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 \u00abPeople\u2019s Choice\u00bb Award: 500 $<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Prize for best English-language text: 500 $<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to participate<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Participants must submit an original, unpublished, and personal text of no more than two pages, in Word format, before February 6, 2026, to the email address indicated on the official website: www.lakaymedia.org\/concours-de-texte<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">-30-<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOTE DE PRESSE Pour diffusion imm\u00e9diate Date : 13 octobre 2025 Montr\u00e9al, QC \u2014 L\u2019organisme Lakay Media annonce le lancement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118484,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-concours-ma-plume"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakaymedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakaymedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakaymedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakaymedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakaymedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118480"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lakaymedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118485,"href":"https:\/\/lakaymedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118480\/revisions\/118485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakaymedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakaymedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakaymedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakaymedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}