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Full-time IIT Undergraduate Students:
Enter the 49th Annual IIT Writing Contest

All full-time undergraduate students are encouraged to enter the 49th Annual IIT Writing Contest,
sponsored by the Humanities Department. You must be enrolled for at least 12 credit hours in

 

 

 

 

 

Spring 2014 to enter.
Second Third
Edwin H. Lewis Prize for Fiction $300 $200 $100
Edwin H, Lewis Prize for Nonﬁction $300 $200 $100
Freshman Essay Prize $300 $200 $100
Mollie Cohen Prize for Poetry $300 $200 $100

 

 

 

 

 

*Prizes will be awarded as Amazon.com gift cards.

Deadline for all submissions: 5:00 pm. on Monday, March 31, 2014.

Winners announced on the Humanities Website: Wednesday, April 16‘“.

Reception for all entrants, with awarding of prizes: Wednesday, April 23".

For more information, contact us: iitwritingcontest@gmail.com

CONTEST RULES

0 Entries may include fiction, poetry, plays, nonfiction (such
as essays, reviews, and technical or scientific papers), and
essays by freshman. Nonfiction (including essays by
freshman) should be readable by an educated person with
no special training in the subject of the essay.

0 All entries must include an entry form as a cover sheet
attached to each entry. Forms are available in 218 Siegel
Halli, or you can download the from: bitJy/lgDIXvw

o All entries must be submitted in duplicate. One should be
keyboarded, doubie<spaced, on 8.5 x 11 paper. Do not put
your name on the paper copy itself or any of its pages.
Deliver paper submissions to Susan Mallgrave at the Lewis
Department of Humanities, 218 Siegei Hail. The second
copy should be submitted as an MS Word .DOC or .DOCX
file to iitwritingcontest@gmail.com. The file name should
be Lastname.Nonﬁction.doc, Lastname.Poetry.doc,
Lastname.Fiction.doc, or Lastname.Freshrnan.doc,
depending on the category it is to be entered into.

a You may enter several categories, and you may submit
more than one entry in a category. Limit of one prize per
category to any one student.

0 Entries will not be returned, so keep a copy.

Vou are encouraged to submit work that has been the
subject of a class assignment, but be sure to send a clean
copy, free of any comments, marks, or grades.

All submitted short stories and plays will be considered for
the Edwin H. Lewis Prize for Fiction. Submissions must be
limited to no more than 25 double-spaced pages.

All submitted poems or groups of poems will be
considered for the Mollie Cohen Poetry Prize, which seeks
to honor the effort to master the art of poetry rather than
the exhibition of emotions. You may submit all the poems
you wish; however, multiple poems by the same student
will be judged as a single entry.

All submitted nonfiction will be considered for the Edwin
H. Lewis Prize for Nonfiction.

All submitted freshman essays will be considered for the
Freshman Essay Prize. Freshman is defined as any student
who is in their first year of full‘time college enrollment in
Spring 2014.

Authors retain all rights to their works, however the
authors grant "T, the Humanities Department, and
TechNews the rights to publish their works for one
calendar year, from April 4, 2014 - April 4, 2015,