Enter your work into the competition for a chance at a writing award. Winning one of these gives you actual evidence for your resume that you are a good writer. Seek out other contests like this.
N E W Y O R K C I T Y C O L L E G E O F T E C H N O L O G Y
38th Annual Literary Arts Festival
Writing Competition
Entry Guidelines
Submit your work at the City Tech Literary
Arts Festival OpenLab website:
https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/literaryartsfestival/submission-guidelines/
• Do not include your name in the
submission attachment.
• Attach your entry as a Word document.
For more information, please contact:
CityTechLAF@gmail.com
Competition winners receive cash prizes
and a possible Festival reading.
Award Categories
• Adolphus Lee Poetry Award:
1 poem may be submitted
• Charles Matusik Fiction Award:
1 short story, not to exceed 3000 words
• Kay-Hirsch Literary Criticism Award:
1 textual analysis
• Lou Rivers Drama Award:
1 one-act play, not to exceed 3000 words
• Michele Forsten Advocacy Award:
For writing in any genre that advocates the
importance of equal rights, not to exceed
1500 words
• Walter-Scanlon Creative
Non-Fiction Award:
Essay/article/research paper/memoir
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: MARCH 15, 2019
