High School Awards

ATTENTION ALL INDIANA HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

2012 CREATIVE WRITING CONTEST

AWARDS IN ESSAY, SHORT STORY, OR POETRY
First Place - $50
Second Place - $25
Honorable Mention

(First and Second Place winners also receive complimentary tickets to the Purdue's Literary Awards Banquet)

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
(Open to all students attending high school in Indiana)

  1. For each entry, please enclose a signed note from the teacher vertifying student authorship and originality.
  2. Teachers are encouraged not to submit the work of an entire class, although multiple student entries can be sent in a single envelope.
  3. Label each entry indicating category (essay, short story, or poetry).
  4. Send one essay (any topic; not more than 1,200 words), one short story, and/or up to three poems per contestant--with a separate cover sheet for each genre.
  5. Entries (unsigned) should be typed double-spaced, and pages numbered.
  6. Cover sheet alone should provide identifying information:
    a. Contestant's name
    b. Category and title of essay, short story, or poems
    c. Contestant's home address, phone number and
    e-mail
    d. School's address and phone number
    e. Grade level
    f. Teacher's first and last name, school phone number and email
  7. Entries should be mailed First Class and postmarked by February 6, 2012 and sent to the following address:

    Christian Knoeller
    High School Creative Writing Contest
    Purdue University
    English Department
    500 Oval Drive
    West Lafayette, IN 47907-2038

CONTESTANTS SHOULD RETAIN A COPY OF EACH ENTRY. ENTRIES WILL NOT BE RETURNED.

Because we receive so many entries, only winners will be notified. Those students receiving awards and their teachers will be contacted by mail.

 

 

Sponsored by the Department of English and the
Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Purdue Univeristy

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