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writing contests
 Check our folder at meetings for information on prizes, internships, and other opportunities.
We have created a new page devoted to our own Annual Writers' Café/Prosody Undergraduate Writing Contest. You can read the work of past winners and, during Spring Term, access the submission guidelines for the contest.
The Creative Writers Opportunities List is a listserv that announces writing contests.
You can access the listings on-line:
http://www.topica.com/lists/crwropps
Or you can subscribe:
to subscribe, send blank e-mail
to <crwropps-subscribe@topica.com>
Current
Contests
Lex Allen Literary Festival Contest
http://www.hollins.edu/news-events/litfest/litfest.htm
The daylong festival begins at 9:30 a.m. with check-in and refreshments. Participants may purchase lunch in the Moody Center dining room. The Literary Festival is free and open to the public. All readings and the poetry panel will be held in the Richard Wetherill Visual Arts Center Auditorium, Room 200 (second floor).
Support for the Literary Festival is provided by the John Alexander and Mary Josephine Haynes Allen Literary Endowment.
Literary Prizes
Undergraduate college students are invited to submit up to three poems and/or up to two short stories for:
Literary Festival Poetry Prize ($100)
Literary Festival Fiction Prize ($100)
All entries must include the author's name and contact information (e-mail or phone number) and the name, city, and state of the author's college or university. All fiction must be double-spaced.
There is no fee to enter the contest.
Deadline: 12 noon, February 13, 2009.
Submit entries to:
Literary Festival Contest
Hollins University
P. O. Box 9677
Roanoke, VA 24020-1677
Or send as an e-mail attachment in MS Word to: <creative.writing(at)hollins.edu> (replace (at) with @)
For more information, call (540) 362-6317 or e-mail <creative.writing(at)hollins.edu> (replace (at) with @)
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TransitionsAbroad.com hosts an annual student writing contest for all currently enrolled undergraduate and graduate students, students who have graduated within the past year, and students currently on leave from school are eligible.
For this year's contest, the winning student submission will be awarded $500, the second place winner will be awarded $150, and the third place winner $100. All winning pieces will be published on the TransitionsAbroad.com website. Runner-up winners will be awarded $50 and will be published on TransitionsAbroad.com.
Details: http://www.transitionsabroad.com/information/writers/student.shtml
Deadline: March 1, 2009
The title "Transitions" is meant to suggest the changes in perception and understanding, as well as in place, that result from cultural immersion travel. Transitions Abroad has long featured regular Student to Student Advice, Student Participant Reports, Internships Abroad, and Student Volunteer Service Learning.
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