Oklahoma’s Most Prestigious High School Writing Competition
Prizes awarded at the Scissortail Creative Writing Festival, April 5-7, 2018
Fiction: 1st Place $200 Poetry: 1st
Place $200
2nd
Place $150 2nd Place $150
3rd
Place $100 3rd Place $ 100
16 Honorable Mention Awards of
$25 each
Guidelines:
* All Oklahoma
* Poetry (up to 100 lines) or Short Fiction (up to 6,000 words) is
acceptable.
* Limit 5 poems and 1 short fiction piece per student.
* All entries must be the original work of the student.
* All entries must be neatly typed; please double-space fiction
entries.
* Entries will not be returned, so keep your originals.
* No identifying marks should be on the manuscript itself, except
for the title.
* Provide cover page with contact information: 1) Student’s name;
2) Teacher’s name
3) School 4)
Classification (senior, junior, etc.) 5) Phone number, Email and
mailing address.
* Work may be submitted through conventional mail or email.
DEADLINE: Conventional mail must be postmarked on or before Friday, February
2, 2018. Email entries must be sent by 11:59 p.m. on February 2, 2018. There
will be no exceptions.
Winners will be notified in early March, and
awards will be presented Saturday, April 7 in the Cole University Center (Estep
Auditorium), on the East Central University campus. A list of winners and winning entries may be
posted on this website. Please
visit this site for festival and contest history and information.
Poetry
Submissions: send work electronically as
attached files to jgrasso@ecok.edu or mail to Dr. Joshua Grasso, East Central
University 1100 E.
14th St. , Ada , OK
74820
Fiction
Submissions: send work electronically as
attached files to mwalling@ecok.edu or mail to Dr. Mark Walling, East Central
University 1100 E.
14th St. , Ada , OK
74820
Contest Information: Dr. Joshua Grasso (580-235-3197); Dr. Mark Walling
(580-559-5440). Scissortail Creative
Writing Festival Information: Dr. Ken Hada (580-559-5557)
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