Student Writing Contest

2012 Student Writing Contest

Poetry
Creative Non-Fiction
Fiction
Academic Essay

Eligibility: The contest is open to all regularly enrolled undergraduates. Although entries need not specifically address religious experience, they should suggest their author's spiritual inquiry.

Prizes: All winners (first, second, and third places in each category) will receive a generous selection of books from the WordFarm catalog, a full-year's subscription to Image: A Journal of Arts and Religion, and a one-year membership to the Conference on Christianity and Literature, as well as publication of their work on the CCL website.

Format: Students may submit one entry in each category. (An "entry" in the poetry category may include one to three poems, but should not exceed five pages total.) Entries submitted in the prose categories—fiction, creative non-fiction, and academic essay—may not exceed fifteen pages each. All entries should be single-sided, double-spaced, and unstapled. Only the title of the work should appear on each entry. A separate page for each work should list the author's name, email address, permanent mailing address, current academic affiliation, category of each entry, and title of the work entered.

Send entries (in hard copy only) to:

"CCL Writing Contest"
c/o Jane Zwart
Calvin College
Department of English
3201 Burton Street SE
Grand Rapids, MI 49546

ALL ENTRIES MUST BE POSTMARKED BY MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2012.
Submissions cannot be returned.

Final Judges:

Jill Pelaez Baumgaertner (poetry)
Lauren Winner (creative non-fiction)
Randy Boyagoda (fiction)
Susan M. Felch (academic essay)