Jovanovich Imaginative Writing Awards Competition


The Creative Writing Program Announces the Spring 2008 Jovanovich Imaginative Writing Awards Competition.

We will be accepting manuscripts Thursday, April 24th.

UP TO $500 IN AWARDS FOR UNDERGRADUATES:
Open to all English and Creative Writing majors in their junior or senior year, and all juniors and seniors in other disciplines who are enrolled in a creative writing course this semester, or who took one of these classes during the Fall 2007 semester. Students should submit ONE (only) of the following: three poems, one short story, as piece of creative non-fiction, or a segment of a stage or screenplay.

UP TO $2,000 IN AWARDS FOR THE BEST MANUSCRIPTS SUBMITTED BY A GRADUATE STUDENT:
Open to graduate students in the creative Writing Program. Students may submit poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, or a stage or screenplay. Maximum of 40 pages. The award may be split. The same manuscript cannot be submitted for the Best Manuscript category and the Ruth Murray Underhill Award.

REQUIREMENTS:

  • Manuscripts must be typed.
  • All submissions should be brought to Kat Scheible, English Student Services Office, Hellems 111
  • An appropriate cover sheet (available in the English Students Services Office) should be completed.
  • The first page of your manuscript should be identified by your student number only.
  • You must also submit a separate detachable cover sheet with your name, student number, and title of your work.

Email: cwengl@colorado.edu
Voice and Voicemail: (303) 492-1853
Website: http://www.colorado.edu/English/crw/crwprogram.htm