2024-25 ARTISTS OF PROMISE
Creative Writing Competition: Call for Submissions
DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 8, 2024, 11:59 pm
Submit work in poetry, fiction, essay, and one-act plays/scripts. Entries from each of these four categories will be blind-reviewed by a panel of experts in the corresponding discipline. Final placement will be determined by practicing writers from outside MCCCD. Students who place in each of the categories will win remuneration as follows:
• First Place - $500
• Second Place - $200
• Third Place - $100
Winners in each category will be honored at the Spring Artists of Promise Gala. Additionally, first-place finishers in each category will have their submissions entered into the national Artists of Promise competition, sponsored by the League for Innovation in the Community College, to receive consideration alongside the best student writing from across the country.
Eligibility
• This competition is exclusively for MCCCD students; all MCCCD faculty are ineligible.
• A contestant must be a for-credit student at one of the MCCCD colleges during the Fall '24 semester.
• Students who have previously won first place in a category are not eligible to participate again in that category.
• Entries must be submitted no later than 11:59 pm, Friday, November 8, 2024.
• Only one entry per category may be submitted by an individual.
• Entries cannot be works previously published nor previously submitted for any MCCCD creative writing competitions.
• Entries must be email attachments submitted to creative writing competition coordinator Jeremy Broyles at the following address: aop-creativewriting@domail.maricopa.edu.
A confirmation email will verify that the submission has been received successfully. Please note that the document must be word-processed in 8-1/2" x 11” format and use 12-point type (unless the work in question requires alterations for specific creative effect)
Maximum Submission Lengths
• Poetry - 67 lines
• Fiction - 3,000 words
• Essay - 2,000 words
• One-Act Play/Script - 3,000 words including stage direction and production notes.
The upper right corner of each page of the entry must include the title of the submission and page number. The student writer’s name, however, should not be included anywhere within the submission. Your name appearing anywhere on your creative writing document will result in disqualification. All questions/concerns regarding formatting requirements can be directed to Jeremy Broyles at aop-creativewriting@domail.maricopa.edu.
Details
WINNING ENTRIES Winning entries will be notified by January 17, 2025, by the Maricopa County Community Colleges District via the Maricopa Center for Learning and Innovation (MCLI). All winning entries will be required to complete additional documents including a district purchasing portal, W9 form, and talent release form, which will be provided by the MCLI.
All documents will be required before receipt of award funding.
COMPETITION CONTACT All questions/concerns from students and faculty alike can be directed to Jeremy Broyles, Mesa Community College faculty and Artists of Promise creative writing competition coordinator. He can be reached at aop-creativewriting@domail.maricopa.edu.
All submissions, as email attachments, are to be sent to the same coordinator and email address as listed immediately above.
ABOUT ARTISTS OF PROMISE Each year, the Maricopa County Community Colleges District sponsors the Artists of Promise Creative Writing Competition—a district-wide competition to encourage and recognize student writers currently enrolled in any of the ten MCCCD colleges. We are proud to announce the opening of the 2024-25 competition to all MCCCD students
You have to be immensely daring, very skilled and imaginative, and willing to tell everything on yourself. You’re told time and again when you’re young to write about what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets? – Raymond Carver