High School Guidance Counselors Remove Hurdle for Scholarship Applicants.

Wilmington NC - Avar Press, sponsor of the 2nd annual Xen Literary Scholarship Competition for High School Students, has already mailed out many free copies of Xen by D.J. Solomon to the high school libraries of schools whose guidance departments have listed the competition on their websites.

Melissa Kaufman, CEO of Avar Press, indicates that this is another way that Avar Press can remove obstacles to entering this scholarship competition for all interested students. There is no fee to enter the competition and cash awards ranging from $300-$500 are made directly to the winning students. The deadline for entries is May 15, 2007.

Xen is the story of a misanthropic scientist who rids the world of evil, marking an end to hate and prejudice. He concludes that Mankind is innately flawed and cannot be fixed; that he must be scrapped for a superior species that is dominated by women. Thus the world that he creates is a matriarchy—free of hate, prejudice, racism, sexism, and war. It is a thought provoking work which challenges the reader to examine his own unrealized prejudices.

All essays must be non-fiction and original work, analyzing any single aspect of
D.J. Solomon's Xen: Ancient English Edition, ISBN 0976066009, Avar Press, 2004. The
use of the essay as part of the writer's routine school work in any capacity is permitted.
The Scholarship competition is open to all US and Canadian high school students who are members of the classes 2007 or 2008, including home schoolers. Submissions must be 1250-1500 words. Please refer to the website for complete information and to read last year's winning essays. www.avarpress.com

Guidance counselors are encouraged to contact Avar Press via e-mail at publisher@avarpress.com to insure that a copy is sent to their high school library whenever the competition is listed on their school website.

About the author: D.J. Solomon is a Stanford M.D., Brandeis Phi Beta Kappa, and Westinghouse Science Talent Search Scholarship winner. He has a private practice in rural North Carolina. Xen is his first novel, second book, the first published in 1979 by W.B. Saunders, when he was 25. He lives with two dogs and has three children. He has several works in various stages of development, both fiction and non-fiction.