2022 Creative Writing Contest
ATTENTION ALL INDIANA HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
PURDUE UNIVERSITY
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
Now Submit On-line!
GENRE CATEGORIES:
Personal Experience Narrative/Creative Nonfiction
Poetry
Short Story
AWARDS IN EACH GENRE:
First Place - $50 and 2 tickets to the Literary Awards ceremony on April 21, 2022
Second Place - $25 and 2 tickets to the Literary Awards ceremony on April 21, 2022
Honorable Mentions - 1 ticket to the Literary Awards ceremony on April 21, 2022
The 2022 guest speaker for the Literary Awards ceremony is American writer Claudia Rankine
Submissions
Please fill out this survey form and attach your file/submission (pdf files only) in the space provided and submit.
Your file must also include the following identifying information at the beginning of your document: Contestant’s name and email, High School name, and Teacher’s name and email.
Submissions are due by noon, on March 7, 2022.
Because we receive so many entries, only winners will be notified.
Those students receiving awards and their teachers will each be contacted by e-mail by the end of March 2022.
For more information contact Tara Star Johnson, Faculty Director or Julie Henderson, awards coordinator.