Submit your original work to the Newhouse Writing Awards, sponosred by Le Moyne's Creative Writing Program. Prizes of $450 each will be awarded in the following categories: poetry, short fiction, critical essay, creative nonofiction essay, or play or TV?film script. (One prize will be awarded in each category, and two more will be awarded in any category for a total of secen prizes.) The deadline for submission is April 5. Complete information below:
2024 NEWHOUSE WRITING AWARDS
* Sponsored by Le Moyne's Creative Writing Program *
*$3150* in CASH PRIZES!
Any matriculated Le Moyne College student may enter the Newhouse Writing Contest.
Seven prizes of $450 each will be awarded for the best student work:
one prize in each genre and two prizes in any genre.
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A POEM
(submit no more than 4 poems)
A WORK OF SHORT FICTION
(not to exceed 15 pages; for "flash fiction" of 1-3 pp. double-spaced, you may submit up to 4)
A CRITICAL ESSAY ON A LITERARY TOPIC OR FILM/TV
(not to exceed 15 pages)
A CREATIVE NONFICTION ESSAY OR JOURNALISTIC ARTICLE
(not to exceed 15 pages; for "flash essays" of 1-3 pp. double-spaced, you may submit up to 4)
A PLAY OR FILM/TV SCRIPT
(any length)
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DEADLINE: Friday, April 5, 2024, before midnight
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, the category (Poetry, Fiction, Critical Essay,
Creative Nonfiction, or Play/Script), and the file name in the subject line. Attach your submission as a docx or
pdf file. Do not embed the submission in your email! Your submission will not be acknowledged.
● 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: your 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 must 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 or flash creative nonfiction (up to 4 in a single file).
● Prose should be double-spaced; poetry should 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 in any genre.
● If instructions are not followed correctly, we may not be able to consider your work.