*Attention High School Students: Write a Show Tune, Win a Prize!* The National Endowment for the Arts has announced the Musical Theater Songwriting Challenge, a national competition for high school students who have a passion for writing songs that could be part of a musical theatre production. The program offers six finalists mentorship opportunities with professional songwriters and musicians and the opportunity to have an original song performed by those musicians. Finalists will also receive scholarship awards and more. Applications are open now and due by January 5, 2018. The finalists will be announced in February and the national competition will take place in New York City in April. More info at Arts.gov <https://broadwayfanclub.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd86f81c87d862208eb56c407&id=09e32290fc&e=a03d8e9aa1>