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SPRING 2008 WRITING CONTESTS (DEADLINE: TUESDAY, MARCH 25)
The Creative Writing Program at Emory sponsors an annual contest to celebrate the best writing at Emory. Undergraduate awards will be given in poetry, fiction, drama, creative non-fiction and screenwriting. An Academy of American Poets Award is open to any student in the university, graduate or undergraduate.
Students who wish to enter the writing contests must be enrolled in Emory University.
A separate submission form must be filled out for each contest a student wishes to enter.
Submissions cannot be returned. All entries must be submited to the Creative Writing Program office, N209 Callaway Center, no later than 5 p.m.,Tuesday, March 25. (Students may leave their submissions in the envelope taped to the Program door if the office is not open.)
Besides public recognition, recipients of the undergraduate awards in fiction, poetry, playwriting and creative non-fiction will receive a cash prize of $250 each. The recipient of the KIKAG Screenwriter's Prize will receive a $1,000 prize. The recipient of the American Academy of Poets Award will receive a $100 prize. Prizes will be announced at the annual Awards Night Reading at 8 p.m., Wednesday, April 16, 2007, in Cannon Chapel. Novelist Richard Powers will present the awards before reading from his work.
For more information on the KIKAG Screenwriter's Prize, please go to http://www.creativewriting.emory.edu/students/KIKAG.html
If you are entering more than one contest, you must fill out a separate entry form for each submission.
For information about the English Department essay contests, go to http://www.english.emory.edu/news/announcements.htm
Creative Writing submission form and contest guidelines.
2008 GRACE ABERNETHY SCHOLARSHIP (DEADLINE: TUESDAY, MARCH 25)
Creative Writing majors at Emory may apply for The Grace Abernethy Scholarship, a financial award from the Grace K.J. Abernethy Fund. The funds are dispersed through the Hawaii Community Foundation -- majors from Hawaii receive preference -- but the award may be made to natives of other states.
One scholarship will be awarded this year in the amount of $2,834.59.
If you are receiving financial aid, the award will be applied to your aid package.
To apply, you must be a declared Creative Writing major, but may be at any stage of completing the requirements. Submit a cover sheet with your name, your student I.D. number, address, telephone number, e-mail address, your class status, and which courses you've taken so far to fulfill the major (i.e., Creative Writing workshops and upper-level English courses) to the Creative Writing Program, N209 Callaway Center. Attach a sample of your creative work in any genre, or a mixture of genres, but no more than thirty pages total (please number the pages). Your name should appear on the cover sheet only, not the work sample.
The deadline for submitting the material requested above is 5 p.m., Tuesday, March 25. If you have questions, please contact Jim Grimsley, the Creative Writing Program Director, at jgrimsl@emory.edu
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