SLWP Writes! Contest 2011
03/14/11by: Natasha Whitton
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.
"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 20, 2011 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 at
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
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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: 6th- 9th grades
Division II: 10th-12th 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! Contest must 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 20, 2011
Notification of winners by June 1, 2011
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 20, 2011
Student’s Name
__________________________________________________________
Title of entry
____________________________________________________________
Grade level ________Category:
PoetryProse (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
Mailthis entry form along with submission, by April 20,
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 20, to be eligible.