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Writing Contest


Monroe Community College and the English/Philosophy Department would like to showcase our student’s best essays, poems, and short fiction. Please enter the 44th Annual English/Philosophy Writing Contest. Student winners are named in May and invited to an awards reception with their professors and include recognition, a monetary award, and a chance to qualify for a national competition with the League of Innovation for Community Colleges.

  Winners will also have their submission published in Cabbages & Kings, MCC’s award-winning literary and cultural arts publication.

  Essays may be submitted in the following categories:

~ Callan Award for best research essay: A thesis-driven research essay (not to exceed 4,000 words). ***This is a new category this year. Please encourage students to enter.***

~ Rice Award for best creative nonfiction essay: A creative nonfiction essay (not to exceed 2,000 words).

~ Cooney Award for best literary essay:  An essay that analyzes/explicates one or more works of literature (not to exceed 2,000 words).

~ Cloos-Susskind Award for best poem: A single poem (not to exceed 60 lines).

~ Langlois Award for best short fiction: A piece of short fiction (not to exceed 3,000 words).

~ McMurry Award for best philosophical essay: A thesis-driven essay in philosophy (not to exceed 2,000 words).

  SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

~ The department is currently accepting submissions with a submission deadline of: 12:00 p.m., Monday, April 6, 2015

~Only Fall 2014 or Spring 2015 “for credit” MCC students may enter.

~ All submissions must be submitted by both hard copy and electronic copy and must be accompanied by the English/Philosophy Department Writing Contest Entry Form, which you can find in the English Department Offices (Brighton 5-532 or Damon 4225) or by email (mailto:twoodruff4@monroecc.edu).

~ Each manuscript and completed entry form must be left in 5-532 with Tina Woodruff on the MCC Brighton Campus or in Room 4225 with Anne Kirkpatrick on the Damon City Campus and by email (mailto:twoodruff4@monroecc.edu).

~ Winners only will be asked for a digital version and an additional League entry form to be entered into the national contest.

~ All submissions must be typed, double spaced, on 8 ½ by 11 paper. Work should be submitted free of the writer’s or professor’s name identifying the entry, free of markings, and free of grammatical and mechanical errors.

~ Winners will be announced early May 2015.

~ Materials submitted must be original and previously unpublished in any college publications.

If you have any questions, please contact Professor Lynn Bartholome at mailto:lbartholome@monroecc.edu.

Tina Woodruff
English Philosophy Department
03/20/2015


Attachments:
icon 2015 Writing Contest Flyer with new picture.pdf