Maricopa Community Colleges Creative Writing Competition

The Maricopa Community Colleges Creative Writing Competition invites submissions in four categories: Poetry (maximum 67 lines), Fiction (maximum 3,000 words), Essay (maximum 2,000 words), and One-Act Play/Script (maximum 3,000 words including stage directions and production notes). Entries from each category will be blind reviewed by a panel of experts. Winners will be showcased in Passages, a Maricopa County Community College District annual publication dedicated to the competition, and honored at an annual creative writing awards dinner.

Eligibility is limited to students who were enrolled in credit courses at one of the MCCCD colleges when the composition was created. Faculty are excluded. Entries must be works written during the student's enrollment in credit courses at an MCCCD college. Students who have won First Place in a category are not eligible to participate again in that category. Only one entry per category may be submitted by an individual. Entries cannot be works from a previous publication or previously submitted for any MCCCD Creative Writing Competitions.

Entries must be submitted online via the CaFE website and word-processed using Microsoft Word, 12 point type, in 8 1/2 x 11" formatting. The upper right corner of each page must include the title of entry and page number. Applicant names cannot appear anywhere on the creative writing document. Up to 4 applications are allowed per participant. Winners will be notified by February 2014 and will be required to complete additional documents including a W9 form and Talent Release form prior to receipt of award funding.