Ends today: LAF 2022 Creative Writing Contest

City Tech’s 41st Annual Literary Arts Festival Writing Competition

Submission Deadline: TODAY, March 4th, 2022

Submit any genre of creative writing for a chance to read your work and other prizes. Submission information is detailed below. The submission link is here: https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/literaryartsfestival/submission-guidelines/

City Tech Students:

We want to hear your voice, your story, your words!

Please submit writing in any genre: poetry, fiction, non-fiction, speeches, journalism, multimodal work, photo essays, videos, animation, spoken-word performances, and more. All creative work is welcome!

Submission Guidelines

  • Written Work: 1,000 words maximum; Videos/Performance Art should be between 10 seconds and 5 minutes.
  • To submit your work, please visit the City Tech Literary Arts Festival OpenLab Website Submissions Guidelines page
  • You will be asked to fill out a form and upload your written work. Do not include your name in the submission attachment.
  • For large files or videos, please include a URL link or send your work to CityTechLAF@gmail.com.
  • Award categories include: the Adolphus Lee Poetry Award, the Charles Matusik Fiction Award, the Kay-Hirsch Literary Criticism Award, the Michele Forsten Advocacy Award, the Walter-Scanlon Creative Non-Fiction Award, the Aaron Barlow Journalism Award, and the Mary Nilles Multimodal Writing Award.
  • Competition winners receive monetary awards and a possible reading at the Literary Arts Festival, a virtual event to be held on on March 24th at 4:30 p.m.

For more information: Megan Behrent: mbehrent@citytech.cuny.edu

LAF 2022 Literary Arts Festival Creative Writing Contest: Deadline March 4

Submit any genre of creative writing for a chance to read your work and other prizes. Submission information is detailed below. The submission link is here: https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/literaryartsfestival/submission-guidelines/

2022 Literary Arts Festival Writing Competition Final

Writing Competition 2016: Deadline Feb. 25, 2016!

LAF Competition 2016 PostcardSubmit contest entries to CityTechLAF@gmail.com

Indicate in the header of the email the category being entered:

  • Adolphus Lee Poetry Award
  • Charles Matusik Fiction Award
  • Lou Rivers Drama Award
  • Graphic Text Award
  • Alan Kay Literary Criticism Award
  • Judith Walter Personal Essay Award
  • Laura Polla Scanlon Award for Best Essay on New York
  • Michele Forsten Advocacy Award
  • Charles Hirsch Faculty and Staff Award

LAF Writing Competition Postcard 2016

 

Writing competitors beware: the deadline approaches!

Are you a City Tech student, faculty member, or staff member interested in submitting your work for the Literary Arts Festival? If so, please consider submitting your work for the Writing Competition–you can win fame and fortune if yours fares well with the judges. The catch? the deadline is TODAY! Mere hours remain in the competition!

For more information, refer back to this earlier post about the competition, or check out this poster:

LAF Writing Competition Poster 2014

Looming deadline

So tomorrow is the deadline for the Literary Arts Festival’s writing competition. In case you misplaced your copy of the writing competition flyer, or don’t want to scroll down a little, here it is again. What are you planning to submit? Have you already written it? Are you driven by a deadline? Now is your time to shine!