{"id":208902,"date":"2023-02-27T13:03:45","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T18:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/?p=208902"},"modified":"2023-02-27T13:03:45","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T18:03:45","slug":"2023-creative-writing-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/2023\/02\/27\/2023-creative-writing-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"2023 Creative Writing Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The English Department is pleased to announce that the submission period is open for the 2023 Creative Writing Awards. All current Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ State undergraduate students can enter the awards listed below. For a full list of all awards offered by the English Department, please visit the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/awards-and-scholarships\/?\"> Awards &amp; Scholarships website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Johnny Muller Memorial Scholarship in Fiction:<\/strong> $1,000. One short story or excerpt from a longer piece (must be labeled as such), limited to 20 pages total, double-spaced.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Carter Ross Flash Fiction Award:<\/strong> $300. A single piece of fiction under 1,000 words, not including the title. It must be self-contained, not part of a larger work.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tom Benediktsson Award in Poetry:<\/strong> $300. A maximum of three poems. If you are submitting more than one poem, the limit is 60 lines per poem. If one long poem, the limit is 150 lines.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Minnie Max Creative Nonfiction Award:<\/strong> $300. One piece of creative nonfiction or excerpt from a longer piece (must be labeled as such), limited to 20 pages total, double-spaced.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Deadline for all submissions: 11:59 p.m. on Monday, April 3. Decisions by late April.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The awards above are open to any undergraduate student at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ State. English majors can use the <a href=\"https:\/\/montclair.instructure.com\/courses\/172774\/assignments\/1622315\">Canvas page<\/a> to submit award materials. If you are not an English major, you\u2019ll need to submit your entries to <a href=\"mailto:gonzalezje@montclair.edu\">Professor Jeff Gonzalez<\/a> and he can submit the entries for you.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Short FAQ<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The piece must simply have been written by you, date and place and purpose (doesn\u2019t have to have been written for a class) irrelevant.<\/li>\n<li>No multiple entries to any one contest.<\/li>\n<li>No previous winners should submit to that contest again (we have limited funds and would like to spread the wealth).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For any questions about the contests themselves, contact <a href=\"mailto:galefd@montclair.edu\">David Galef<\/a>, Creative Writing Program Director.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Awards are open to all current undergraduate students<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":208906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-9_news-students-can-use"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208902"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208908,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208902\/revisions\/208908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}