{"id":209580,"date":"2025-03-26T11:45:46","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T15:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/?p=209580"},"modified":"2025-03-26T11:45:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T15:45:46","slug":"university-wide-creative-writing-contests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/2025\/03\/26\/university-wide-creative-writing-contests\/","title":{"rendered":"University-Wide Creative Writing Contests"},"content":{"rendered":"

The English Department is pleased to announce that the submission period is open for the 2025 Creative Writing Awards. All current Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ State undergraduate students, regardless of major, 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

Deadline for all submissions: 11:59 p.m. on Monday, April 7. Decisions by late April.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Four Creative Writing Awards (open to all Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ State undergraduate 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 English Department 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
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    For any clarification about details, please email Lee Behlman,\u00a0<\/a> Adam Rzepka<\/a>, or David Galef<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Submission period is open through April 7<\/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":[9,10,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards","category-57_english-department","category-9_news-students-can-use"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209580","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=209580"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209582,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209580\/revisions\/209582"}],"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=209580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}