SLWP Writes! Contest 2012

04/15/12by: Natasha Whitton


Our SLWP Writes! contest is open to students in grades 6 through 12. Teachers are encouraged to submit worthy sample of their students' work or students may submit directly.


For a printableentry form, click here.

"SLWP Writes!"Contest

The Southeastern Louisiana Writing Project (SLWP) is proud to announce its second annual "SLWP Writes!" writing contest for young authors. The contest is open to students from grades 6 through 12. Teachers are encouraged to submit worthy samples of their students’ work, or students may submit directly. Students may submit multiple entries.

Contest guidelines and awards are outlined on the following flyer. Please post this flyer in teachers’ lounges and on student bulletin boards.

The Southeastern Louisiana Writing Project is part of the Louisiana Writing Project, a network of five university-based National Writing Project sites. Each site seeks to improve writing instruction by sharing the best practice of the outstanding writing instructors of all disciplines from kindergarten through college. The National Writing Project is a 30-year professional-development initiative based on teachers teaching teachers and is currently active in all 50 states.

The "SLWP Writes!" contest is open for entries through April 27, 2012 in all schools in Livingston, Tangipahoa, St. Tammany, St. Helena, Washington, and East St. John parishes as well as at schools in surrounding parishes where SLWP teachers teach. Judging is done by SLWP Writing Project teacher-consultants. Winners will be notified by June 1, 2011 and automatically entered into the "Louisiana Writes" statewide contest, which also presents medals, other prizes, and an anthology at a ceremony in Baton Rouge each Fall.

For contest questions or further information on the SLWP Writes! Contest, e-mail

SLWP Contest Coordinator, Jessica Kastner: Jessica.Kastner@southeastern.edu.

For further information on the statewide Louisiana Writes! Contest, contact:

Louisiana Writes! Young Writer’s Contest, Louisiana Writing Project,

Margaret Simon, Contest Chairman, Send entries to: Margaret Simon, # 3 Duperier Oaks, New Iberia, LA, 70563. E-mail:lawpwrites@yahoo.com

If interested in finding out more about SLWP, the Louisiana Writing Project Network, or becoming a teacher-consultant for the Southeastern Louisiana Writing Project, e-mail Dr. Richard Louth, SLWP Director, at rlouth@southeastern.edu

SLWP Writes! Contest

Sponsored by the Southeastern Louisiana Writing Project

For Student Writers

Categories

Prose: Fiction or Nonfiction, 1500 word limit

Poetry: Up to 3 poems, max. 100 lines total may be sent

Grade Level Divisions

Division I: 6 th- 9 th grades

Division II: 10 th-12 th grades

Awards

Prizes awarded to top submissions in each category and grade level to include:

Certificates for winning student and teacher

Online Publication by SLWP

Automatic entry into LAWP statewide LA Writes! Contest

Guidelines for Submission

Prose entries-typed, double-spaced, titled, max 1500 words

Poetry entries-typed, double or single-spaced, titled, one poem/page, 100 lines total

For judging to remain anonymous, do not put author’s name on the submission

Each submission for SLWP Writes! Contestmust include a signed entry form

Submit Electronic Copy along with Hard Copy

Email electronic copy when you send your hard copy with signed entry form

Electronic copy should be a "docx", “doc,” or "rtf" attachment of submission only.

Also paste copy into text of email.

Email to: slwpwrites@yahoo.com

Deadline to receive hard copy, signed entry form AND emailed copy: April 27, 2012

Notification of winners by June 1, 2012

SLWP Writes!winners' entries are forwarded to Louisiana Writes! Contest

sponsored by the Louisiana Writing Project Network (LAWP)

deadline. Notification of Louisiana Writes! winners by Sept. 1.

Louisiana Writeswinners are published in an anthology, and invited to a ceremony in Baton Rouge. For further information on the associated LAWP Louisiana Writes! Contest or to submit directly to it, contact: Louisiana Writes! Young Writer’s Contest, Louisiana Writing Project Margaret Simon, Contest Chairman, Send entries to: Margare t Simon, # 3 Duperier Oaks, New Iberia, LA. 70563. E-mail:lawpwrites @yahoo.com

Send hard copy of SLWP Writes!Entry form and Submission to:

SLWP Writes! c/o Dr. Richard Louth, SLU 10327, Hammond, LA 70402

Also make sure to email your prose or poetry submission to slwpwrites@yahoo.com


Southeastern Louisiana Writing Project

SLWP Writes! Youth Writing Contest Entry Form

Entry/ Release form: Use separate form for each entry submitted

Must be received by April 27, 2012

Student’s Name __________________________________________________________

Title of entry ____________________________________________________________

Grade level ________ Category: Poetry Prose (Fiction or Nonfiction)

Home mailing address _____________________________________________________

City _______________________________ State _______________ Zip _____________

Home telephone number ___________________________________________________

Email of student and/or parent:_______________________________________________

Teacher’s name __________________________________________________________

School _________________________________________________________________

School address ___________________________________________________________

City ________________________________ State _____________Zip ______________

Email of teacher:__________________________________________________________

Pledge of originality: I declare that the work I am submitting to the SLWP Writes! Contest is my own original work.

Student’s signature _____________________________________________________

Release form:

I hereby grant to the Southeastern Louisiana Writing Project and the Louisiana Writing Project Network the nonexclusive right and permission in respect of the original writing I have submitted to the SLWP Writes! contest, to use, publish, and otherwise reproduce this work and to use my child’s name to identify the author of this work in connection with my participation in the SLWP Writes! contest. I understand that any use of this submitted work will include my child’s name as its creator. In any of the winning categories, the Southeastern Louisiana Writing Project maintains the right to declare no winner and withhold prizes if no work of merit is found. Also, I authorize the SLWP Writes! contest to forward my entry to the statewide Louisiana Writes! Contest if it is a winning entry in the SLWP Writes! contest. Non-winning entries of the SLWP Writes! contest will not be forwarded to the Louisiana Writes Contest; however, I understand that I may send my work, on my own, to the Louisiana Writes Contest whether it wins or does not win the SLWP Writes! contest.

I, _________________________________, being the parent or guardian of the above-named minor, hereby consent to and join in the foregoing release and consent on behalf of said minor.

For Further Information, deadline, and entry form to send directly to LAWP's Louisiana Writes! Contest:

Louisiana Writes! Young Writer’s Contest, Louisiana Writing Project

Margaret Simon, # 3 Duperier Oaks, New Iberia, LA. 70563. E-mail: lawpwrites@yahoo.com

Mail this entry form along with submission, by April 27, to:

SLWP Writes! C/o Dr. Richard Louth, SLU 10327, Hammond, LA 70402

*Also send an electronic copy of submission to slwpwrites@yahoo.com

Entries must be submitted in hard copy, with signed Entry Form, and online, by April 27, to be eligible.