Have you written a dynamite essay or creative piece? Submit it for consideration. First prize: $1000. Second Prize: $500. Eight winners in four categories!
- Meet other writers and ask them questions about how they work.
- Dine at the posh Town & Gown
- Be automatically considered for publication in Scribe (http://scribe.usc.edu) the USC Dornsife College online journal produced entirely by undergraduates
- Discuss your and other writers' work in light of themes and questions important to writers.
- Bolster that ever-lengthening résumé of accomplishments
- Listen to keynote speaker, Mark Richard, American short story writer, novelist, journalist, screenwriter, and poet. Learn more about Mark’s work here
- 4 categories. On title page, identify the category in which your essay is competing:
- Professional Writing/Moral Reasoning: papers about ethical dimensions of your discipline or future profession; Marshall white papers; Annenberg analyses of media industries; IR problem-based essays; Philosophy papers; some English & cultural studies essays; WRIT 340 pre-law briefs or memos; researched essays; some GE cat. 6 essays; some GE cat. 2 essays.
- Analytical essay: thesis-driven essays and editorials focused on close reading of primary text(s).
- Research essay: multiple sources, bibliography.
- Creative Work: short stories, screenplays, collections of poetry, scripts for performance art, one-act plays, multimedia.
- Entry length: Up to 40 pages per essay/creative work.
- One submission per category, but you can compete in multiple categories.
- Questions? Ask Professor Caley O’Dwyer Feagin, feagin@usc.edu
