Thank you to all who submitted entries for consideration for this year’s issue of City Tech Writer. We are now sending out responses to those whose sponsored work has been selected as finalists.
If you didn’t get a chance to submit anything by the deadline, though, have no fear! Today, we are announcing the first ever CTW Creative Writing Contest!
We will be accepting submissions that respond, either directly or indirectly, to any entry from the 2023 edition of City Tech Writer. The submissions do not need to be sponsored.
Please see below for contest rules:
- Students can submit 1 entry per category in up to 3 of the following categories: Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction (100 words max), Drama, Personal Essay, Visual Arts, Writing About Anti-AAPI Discrimination (max 700-800 words)
- All entries must respond to an entry from the 2023 edition of City Tech Writer (citytechwriter.com)with the exception of the AAPI category, which should engage with the essay “Many Years After” from the 2022 edition. The submission can explicitly mention the original entry, or it can indirectly respond to specific images, philosophical concerns, or sociocultural topics that the original entry addresses.
- If your submission does not explicitly mention the original entry, you must include a 50 word paragraph, at the end of the submission, explaining how your entry responds somehow to the preceding year’s entry.
- The entries do NOT have to be faculty sponsored; however, you are advised to consult with a professor or at least a writing tutor before submitting your entry.
- Students already tapped for inclusion in CTW 2024 may submit 1 entry in 1 category.
- There is no minimum or maximum length for any category other than Flash Fiction (100 words max) and the AAPI category (700-800 words max). However, please use common sense. 75 word personal essays and 50 page novellas alike will likely not make the cut!
- For the category Writing About AAPI Discrimination, we are looking for short reflections from AAPI students responding to the essay and accompanying documentary “Many Years After,” found in the 2022 volume of City Tech Writer.
Sponsored by this year’s AAPI anti-hate campaign, entries in this category should draw attention to how/whether the coronavirus and its aftermath have shaped your understanding of AAPI ethnic or cultural identity.
A selection of entries will be published as part of a roundtable discussion entry in this year’s volume.
- Entries must be received by 5 pm on MONDAY, April 15 (please note updated deadline). Submit by filling out the designated Google Form and uploading to the Dropbox file request, which will be visible on the form’s confirmation page.
Happy writing!
Professor Lucas Kwong
Editor, City Tech Writer
