Undergraduate Literary Awards — Deadline 3/5
Some of you may be interested in the English Department’s upcoming annual literary competition:
http://creativewriting.english.illinois.edu/undergraduate/awards/
“The English Department sponsors and administers two annual undergraduate literary competitions in Short Fiction and Poetry. Depending on available funding, there will be 3-4 prizes in Fiction and 2-3 in Poetry this year. Past prizes have ranged from $100 to $1000. When this year’s amounts have been determined they will be announced here, so please check back for more information.
Contest rules are as follows:
Short Fiction: no contestant may submit more than one story
Poetry: no contestant may submit more than 200 lines, as a single poem or a group of poems
The English Department office (208 English) is in charge of accepting and processing entries. Only undergraduate students are eligible to compete. The name, address, phone number, e-mail address, net id, status (undergrad), and UIN number of the writer are to appear on a title sheet that will be separate from the entry. The writer’s name is not to appear on the entry itself. Entries will not be returned.”