The Fifth Annual Writers' Café/Prosody
Undergraduate Writing Contest

in Poetry, Fiction, and Creative Nonfiction

Win local radio exposure and Book Center gift certificates

Prizes: Winners in each genre will have their work featured on a special broadcast of Prosody, a weekly literary arts program on WYEP-FM (91.3) produced by Jan Beatty and Ellen Placey Wadey. Prosody airs on Tuesday evenings from 7 to 7:30.

Eligibility: All currently enrolled Pitt undergraduates who have attended at least one Writers' Café session in this academic year (Sept. 2007- March 2008) are eligible. If you haven’t come to a session, there’s still time! (The next session is March 28).

Guidelines: Poets—submit 1-3 poems (no more than 3 pages per poem); Prose Writers—up to 5,000 words. In all genres, names should not be included on the work; instead, complete an entry form and attach it to each submission.

Students may submit in more than one genre, but each submission should be accompanied by a separate form. We are unable to accept email submissions. Submitted work will not be returned.

Deadline: All submissions must be received by Friday, March 28 by 5 p.m. at this address:

Writers' Café, c/o The Writing Center
M-2 Thaw Hall
3942 O'Hara Street
University of PIttsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260

attn: CONTEST

 

Past Winners:

Winners in 2005

Winners in 2004

 


The Writing Center
Department of English
University of Pittsburgh