2013 UNDERGRADUATE CREATIVE WRITING AWARDS

Deadline: Noon, Friday, March 1, 2013

The English Department sponsors and administers two annual undergraduate literary competitions in Short Fiction and Poetry.  Depending on available funding, there will be 3-4 prizes in Fiction and 2-3 in Poetry this year.  Past prizes have ranged from $100 to $1000.  As soon as we have specific funding numbers available, we will announce them at our website: http://creativewriting.english.illinois.edu/undergraduate/awards/

Contest rules are as follows:

Short Fiction:  no contestant may submit more than one story (7500 words, maximum length)

Poetry:  no contestant may submit more than 200 lines, as a single poem or a group of poems

Only University of Illinois undergraduate students are eligible to compete.  Poster here.

For more information, please contact Steve Davenport at sdavenpo@illinois.edu.