{"id":209221,"date":"2024-03-21T09:37:43","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T13:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/?p=209221"},"modified":"2024-03-21T09:37:43","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T13:37:43","slug":"2024-creative-writing-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/2024\/03\/21\/2024-creative-writing-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"2024 Creative Writing Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

The English Department is pleased to announce that the submission period is open for the 2024 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 Awards & Scholarships website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Four Creative Writing Awards (open to all Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ State undergraduate and graduate students):<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. \u00a0 The Johnny Muller Memorial Scholarship in Fiction:<\/strong><\/a> submit one story or excerpt from a longer piece (must be labeled as such), limited to 20 pages total, double-spaced. $1000<\/strong><\/li>\n
  2. \u00a0 The Tom Benediktsson Award for Poetry:<\/strong><\/a> submit 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. $300<\/strong><\/li>\n
  3. \u00a0 The Carter Ross Flash Fiction Award:<\/strong><\/a> submit a single piece of fiction under 1,000 words, not including the title. It must be self-contained, not part of a larger work. $300<\/strong><\/li>\n
  4. \u00a0 The Minnie Max Award for Creative Nonfiction:<\/strong><\/a> submit one piece of nonfiction writing, limited to 20 pages total, double-spaced. $300<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Deadline for all submissions: 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday, April 3. Decisions by late April.<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Creative Writing Awards FAQs<\/h2>\n
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    1. May I submit material for a Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ creative writing award that wasn\u2019t written for a class?<\/strong> Yes!<\/li>\n
    2. May I submit material for a Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ creative writing award I have won in the past?<\/strong> No. We have limited prize money and would like to reward as many different writers as we can.<\/li>\n
    3. Do I need to include a personal statement?<\/strong> No, not for creative writing awards.<\/li>\n
    4. Do I need to be an English major or minor?<\/strong> The awards are open to any undergraduate student at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ State.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      For any questions about the contests themselves, contact David Galef<\/a>, Creative Writing Program Director.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Submission period is open through April 3<\/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":[5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-announcements","category-9_news-students-can-use"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209221","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=209221"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209224,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209221\/revisions\/209224"}],"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=209221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}