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English/Philosophy Department 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 42nd 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.

Please encourage students to enter now. The deadline (Monday, April 9th at noon, right after break week) is fast-approaching.

Essays may be submitted in the following categories:

~ Rice Award for best essay: A thesis-driven essay in any style, including research, argument, analysis, description, narrative, excluding literary analysis or literary explication (not to exceed 2000 words).

~ Cooney Award for best literary essay:  An essay that analyzes/explicates one or more works of literature (not to exceed 2000 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 3000 words).

~ McMurry Award for best philosophical essay: A thesis-driven essay in philosophy (not to exceed 2000 words).

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
~ The department is currently accepting submissions with a submission deadline of: 12:00 p.m., Monday, April 8, 2013.
~Only Fall 2012 or Spring 2013 “for credit” MCC students may enter.
~ All submissions must be submitted by hard copy and must be accompanied by the English/Philosophy Department Writing Contest Entry Form, which you can find attached or in the English Department Offices (Brighton 5-532 or Damon 4225).
~ Each manuscript and completed entry form must be left in 5-532 with Tina Morrill on the MCC Brighton Campus or in Room 4225 with Anne Kirkpatrick on the Damon City Campus.
~ 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 2013.
~ Materials submitted must be original and previously unpublished in any college publications.

If you have any questions, please contact Professor Angelique Johnston at
ajohnston@monroecc.edu.

Angelique Johnston
English and Philosophy
03/25/2013


Attachments:
icon 2013 Writing Contest Flyer.pdf