The Writers' Festival Contest deadline has passed for the 2012 competition. The new guidelines for the 2013 competition will be posted in Fall 2012.
A Tradition at Agnes Scott
Each year students in the state of Georgia have an opportunity to submit their written works for recognition at the Writers' Festival. Agnes Scott awards a $500 first place prize for each of these categories:
- Creative nonfiction
- Fiction
- Playwriting
- Poetry
2012 Judges
Joy Harjo, Benjamin Percy, and Jacqueline Pardue Goldfinger
Finalist Notification
Contest finalists will be notified by e-mail in January. Their work will be included in the Festival magazine, published in March. Finalists will be invited to campus to attend a workshop led by one of the visiting writers, followed by a luncheon on Friday, March 30, 2012.
Contest RulesContest rules appear below. Entries not following these rules will not be considered. For more information, please contact Rachel Trousdale, associate professor of English, at
rtrousdale@agnesscott.edu.
This contest is open to anyone currently enrolled in a graduate or undergraduate program in a college or university in the state of Georgia.
- Works submitted may have been previously published in campus newspapers or campus literary magazines.
- Finalist entries will appear in the Festival magazine; authors retain all rights to their work and may publish them elsewhere after the competition.
- All submissions should be in 12pt. Times New Roman font.
- Entrants may submit materials in multiple genres up to the following number of submissions:
- Five poems (maximum of 10 pages total)
- Two essays (double-spaced, maximum of 5,000 words for each essay)
- Two stories (double-spaced, maximum of 5,000 words for each story)
- Two one-act plays (Samurl French format, max. of thirty pages for each one-act play)
All entries should be submitted electronically. Send entries as separate, Word-compatible documents to writersfestival@agnesscott.edu. In the e-mail, include the author's name, address, phone number, school, contest categories entered, and the titles and genres of all works. Deadline is Thursday, December 1, 2011.
We look forward to your submissions, and we hope to see you at the 41st Annual Agnes Scott College Writers’ Festival.