Creative Writing

Any matriculated Le Moyne College student may enter the Newhouse Writing Contest.

Seven prizes of $315 each (the largest amount ever) will be awarded for the best student work.

• A POEM
  (submit no more than 4 poems)
• A WORK OF SHORT FICTION
  (not to exceed 15 pages; for very brief "flash fiction" you may submit up to 4)
• A CRITICAL ESSAY ON A LITERARY TOPIC OR FILM
  (not to exceed 15 pages)
• A CREATIVE NONFICTION ESSAY OR JOURNALISTIC ARTICLE
  (not to exceed 15 pages)
• A PLAY OR FILM/TV SCRIPT
  (any length)
  

DEADLINE:  Wednesday, March 16, 2016, 5:00 PM

Submission instructions:

• A student who has won a Newhouse award in the previous year may not submit in that same genre this year (but may submit in other genres).
• Collaborative authorship is allowed if all collaborators are matriculated Le Moyne students. The award would be evenly split among the authors.
• Send an email to [email protected] with your last name and the category (Poetry, Fiction, Critical Essay, Creative Nonfiction, or Play/Script) in the subject line with your submission as an attached docx or pdf file.
• Students may submit work in a maximum of two categories, but send a separate email for each category.
• In the body of your email, provide: author’s name (or in the case of collaboration, names) with your student ID#, address and telephone, title(s) of work submitted, and name of contest category.
• The docx or pdf file containing your manuscript submission should not include your name: instead provide your student ID number. (Entries will be judged anonymously). Do, however, include the title(s) of your work. If you submit more than 1 poem (up to a maximum of 4), put all poems in a single docx or pdf file. The same goes for submitting more than 1 work of flash fiction (up to 4).
• Entries should be double-spaced (poetry may be single spaced).  
• Manuscript pages should be numbered consecutively; the contest category should appear on each page.
• Submitted manuscripts will not be returned. Judges will not enter into correspondence about submissions. Judges may decide not to award a prize.
• If instructions are not followed we may not be able to consider your work.