(Plus Books & Honorable Mentions)
Guidelines:
- Contest is open only to currently enrolled undergraduate students.
- Eligible students are expected to attend the Festival. Recognition will occur Friday evening, April 1, 2022. (Please do not submit if you cannot attend the festival).
- Submissions must be confirmed by a sponsoring faculty member.
- Each institution is allowed a maximum of 5 (five entries); This includes ECU.
- Each institution is responsible for selecting its contestants
- Submissions are limited to one of three categories: 1) one piece of short fiction (up to 7500 words), or one piece of creative nonfiction (up to 7500 words), or up to three poems (150 lines total).
- Prizes will not be designated by genre, but will be awarded for best writing.
- All entries must be the original work of the student.
- All entries must be neatly typed; please double-space prose entries.
- Entries will not be returned, so keep your originals.
- No identifying marks should be on the manuscript itself, except for the title.
- Provide separate Cover page with contact information: 1) Student’s Name; 2) Student’s email address AND mailing address 3) Faculty Member’s Name & Email address 3) Institution4) Classification 5) Phone number 6) Title of original work submitted
- Submit work by email to Dr. Jennifer Dorsey at jdorsey@ecok.edu. In the subject line of your email submission, type “Scissortail Undergraduate Contest.”
- Professor Dorsey will screen initial entries, then an outside judge will judge all entries that meet minimum guidelines.
Judge: Dr. Joey Brown, Professor in English at Missouri Southern State University. Joey holds an interdisciplinary PhD from the University of Oklahoma and a Masters of Arts in Creative Writing and American Literature from the University of Oklahoma. She teaches creative writing (and other writing courses) at MSSU. Joey writes poetry and prose. Her work has appeared in several literary journals including Concho River Review, Langdon Review of the Arts in Texas, Quiddity, storySouth, and San Pedro River Review. She is the author of two poetry collections: Oklahomaography (Mongrel Empire Press), and The Feral Love Poems (Hungry Buzzard Press). Joey lives in Missouri with her husband, prose writer Michael Howarth, and their rescue dogs in their somewhat renovated house.
Sponsors: The Undergraduate Writing Contest is sponsored by The East Central University Foundation, Inc, in partnership with THE RED EARTH MFA program from Oklahoma City University, directed by Rob Roensch. Information: http://www.okcu.edu/artsci/departments/english/redearthmfa
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