The Best of the MLK, Jr. Day Writing Awards

Challenges to the Dream: The Best of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Writing Awards at Carnegie Mellon University, is an anthology that celebrates a writing contest that since 1999 has invited Pittsburgh-area high school and college students to write honestly and creatively about race. The mission of the MLK Day Writing Awards is to create a space for daring, eloquent, and inventive work, in the belief that the process of writing itself can help young people explore and break down issues of