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Writing Contest for Study Abroad

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The Fourth Annual Writing Contest for Study Abroad

NOTE: The Submission Deadline for 2008 was January 31, 2008 (postmark).

Check back here soon for announcements of winners and runners-up.

The Fifth Annual Writing Contest for Study Abroad will being accepting
submissions for our Summer 2009 programs in October, 2008.


Studying in Madrid with UNO was an unforgettable gift. It offered new insights, experiences, exchanges, and it helped me build a stronger foundation for my writing. We grew as writers and communicators in a program that imparted confidence to the writer’s intuition. It helped us open our minds so that what emerges is intact and not squashed in the process.
The strengths of this program are numerous: a new setting that may aid reflection and/or spark a new direction; dynamic classmates; sincere, conscious, analytical and talented faculty; a highly enjoyable reading series; an interaction of genres; an overlapping of languages. I left with a better understanding of my own writing and have given it even more priority since the program. It was a blessing and an honor to attend.

--Christina Vega-Westhoff, poetry winner, 2007.

 

When I was notified about the award, I'm not sure what the most exciting prospect was: going to Madrid for a month or studying with such terrific writers. After the first day of class, I knew I'd be a better writer by the end of the summer's workshop. At the end of the month, not only was my writing better, but the way I saw myself as a writer had changed. And that is perhaps one of the most important tasks any MFA program can undertake, to impart to students not only the craft but the confidence and empowering practices of writing. Add to this the bonus of getting to know and love an amazing bunch of students and faculty. I can't see how it's possible to go to Madrid with the UNO people and not come out the other side of it all as a better writer with the support of a close writing community. Thank you, UNO!

--Jill Drumm, nonfiction winner, 2006.


The University of New Orleans, the pioneer in writing programs abroad, is pleased to announce the fourth annual writing contest for study-abroad in, Summer, 2008. Full fee waivers and transportation costs will be granted to one writer each in the genres of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction. Partial awards and honorable mentions may also be granted. Winners may attend any of UNO’s 2008 study-abroad writing programs:

Writing Workshops in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
Writing Workshops in Montpellier
The Ezra Pound Center for Literature, Dorf Tirol, Italy

 

Guidelines

Submission Deadline: January 31, 2008 (postmark). (Note: if you are mailing from a non-US location after January 25, please notify us via email of the mail date and location.)

Eligibility: Anyone writing in English who has not yet published a book of 45 pages or more in the genre of application, except faculty and administrators employed by the University of New Orleans.

Entry Fee: An entry fee of $25 must be paid for each submission. Please pay fees at the Division of International Education web site. Do not include payment with your submission unless you are unable to pay electronically. If you must include payment with your submission, make checks or money orders payable to UNO. Cash payments cannot be accepted.

Multiple Submissions: Applicants may submit multiple applications in one or more genres, however each application must be complete with entry fee and other application materials listed here. More than one submission may be included in an envelope, and payment may be made in aggregate, but each submission must have its own cover page.

Submission Format: Submit up to 15 pages of prose (double spaced, 12 point type, stapled, with page numbers) or 3 pages of poetry (maximum 3 poems) in a 9x12 envelope (do not fold into a smaller envelope).

The submitted work must be unpublished at the time of submission, though it may be under consideration. The author's name may not appear anywhere on the manuscript. Include a copy of the receipt page from your online payment, and a cover page with the following information:

Author's name, address, phone number, and email address.
Manuscript title(s) and genre(s). (Each submitted manuscript must have a unique title; groups of multiple poems or stories must have a title assigned to the manuscript as a whole.)
A signed statement certifying that you have not published a book of 45 pages or more in the genre of application.
Note that the cover page should contain only this information. Any letter or communication should be separate.

Each individual submission should also have a second cover page which states nothing but the title.

Submission Address:

Writing Contest
University of New Orleans
Metropolitan College
Division of International Education
New Orleans, LA 70148

Acknowledgements: No manuscripts will be returned. Acknowledgements by email query only. Each applicant will be emailed a list of winners when the contest has been decided, near the end of March. Please do not include SASE's or postcards.

Questions and comments may be emailed to bill.lavender@uno.edu.


 


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The Low Residency MFA Program and all Study Abroad Programs in Writing are administered by the
Division of International Education at UNO's Metropolitan College,
Bill Lavender, Coordinator,
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