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EPIC's 2011 Writing Competition for
Middle School and High School Students
Eligible Students: This contest is open to students worldwide, attending public, private, or home schools. Students must be in junior high/middle school or high school in the U.S., or the equivalent grade level in their specific international school system.
Categories for entries: Entries may be a story, poem, or essay, written specifically for the contest or as a school assignment for grades 6-8 / ages 11 - 14 (Middle School categories) or grades 9-12 / ages 15 - 18 (High School categories). The sub-categories are Story (fictional Short Story), Poetry, and/or Essay (nonfiction).
Language: All entries must be in English.
Entry Limit: An entrant may enter no more than one (1) entry in each category, equaling a maximum of three (3) entries.
Entry Fee: None.
Deadline: All entries must be received between August 1, 2010 and October 20, 2010.
Judging: Entries will be judged by a panel of judges, including teachers, librarians, published writers, publishers, and editors. All entrants will receive feedback ONLY from the first-round judging panel. Finalists will move to a secondary judging panel.
Profane, sexually explicit, plagiarized, or libelous content will be rejected as an entry in the New Voices Young Writer's Competition. | |
Middle School Categories | High School Categories | Story (Fictional Short Story)
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Story (Fictional Short Story)
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Poetry
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Poetry
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Essay (nonfiction)
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Essay (nonfiction)
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New Voices Guidelines and Rules
Contest entry grants a one-time, non-exclusive print and electronic right for EPIC to publish the entrant's submission, biography, and e-book knowledge in the 2010 New Voices Anthology and on the EPIC Website. Entrants retain the copyright to their individual work.
EPIC reserves the right to cancel a category if, at the sole discretion of the New Voices Chair(s), there are not enough entries to merit judging.
Completing your Entry Form:
In order for an entry to be considered in the competition, you must do the following three steps:
- Each entry will need a signed permission slip. You can fill out the permission slip online by typing in your name and your parent's or guardian's name. Print the form by choosing "print" from the file menu in the left hand corner of the browser (Internet Explorer, Safari, FireFox, etc.) screen. Each person (entrant and parent/guardian) must sign next to the typed name. Scan and save the permission slip as a .jpeg file, attach (not inserted into the body of email), and email to newvoices.competition@gmail.com.
- Also attach (not inserted into the body of the email) the entry. Entry submissions must be formatted in either MS Word (.doc) or Rich Text Format (.rtf) and use 12 pt. Times New Roman font.
- Do not insert entry or entry form into the body of the email.
- Do not insert graphics into the entry (pictures and/or drawings).
- Do not submit a GRAPHICAL entry (such as a comic strip format or picture story).
- In the subject line put: Grade-Category-Name (Eg. MS-Poetry-SueSmith or MS-Story-SueSmith or HS-Story-JohnHancock, etc.) Permission Form and Entry
If you are entering three different pieces, you must complete the following entry form three times and send three separate emails.
Everything listed on the form below is required in order to enter the contest. If there is anything missing, the form will not go through and you will not be entered.