The phrase "call for essays" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are soliciting essays from people on a particular topic. For example, "We are issuing a call for essays on the history of the American Civil War."
Three thousand people responded to the call for essays.
When the Westchester section put out a call for essays about memorable teachers, responses poured in.
For possible essay topics and instructions on how to submit to contribute, please see our "Call for Essays" page.
And, of course a lot of writing instruction in recent years has been geared toward getting students to perform well on standardized tests that either don't require real writing or call for essays of several paragraphs.
To that end, the Society of Actuaries and the Casualty Actuarial Society hosted a call for essays, "Systemic Risk, Financial Reform, and Moving Forward from the Financial Crisis," seeking to find solutions that would prevent a future systemic meltdown.
Universities UK (UUK), the collective voice for 138 universities, has called for essay mills to be made illegal.
The result is an eighty-page list of two hundred and ninety-four questions, to be answered in writing, many of them calling for essay-type responses.
We're calling for essay submissions from high school students across America.
An open call for short essays (similar in length to an extended abstract, for details see below) will complement this effort and provide opportunities for wider participation and discussion.
No doubt flushed with success, he attempted to win a second prize, this time in answer to the academy's call for an essay on inequality.
Maybe teachers should call for an essay of Lord of The Flies to be composed in Snapchat.
