Help us showcase student writers and MCC's best essays, poems, and short fiction. Last year MCC won national acclaim in two writing categories!
Please encourage your students to enter the Annual English/Philosophy Writing Contest. Student winners are named in May, invited to an awards reception with their professors and families, and given recognition and a monetary award. They even have a chance to qualify for the national competition with the League of Innovation for Community Colleges.
Submissions are accepted 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 2, 2012.
~Only Fall 2011 or Spring 2012 “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 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, free of markings, and free of grammatical and mechanical errors.
~ Winners will be announced early May 2012.
~ Materials submitted must be original and previously unpublished in any college publications.
If you have any questions, please contact Professor Angelique Johnston at <mailto:ajohnston@monroecc.edu>.
Angelique Johnston
English/Philosophy Department
12/06/2011 |