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Anspaugh Fiction Award |
- All registered students at the University of South Florida are eligible.
- The work submitted must be previously unpublished prose fiction.
- Maximum length per entry: 5,000 words
- Each contestant may submit no more than two entries.
- Each contestant must submit two typed, double-spaced copies of each manuscript.
Be sure to retain a copy for yourself. No manuscripts will be returned.
- To conceal the author’s identity, each manuscript shall use a pen name. The author’s
actual name, pen name, local address, USF ID number, and telephone number must be
placed in a sealed envelope accompanying the submission. Do not place your social
security number anywhere on the submission.
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Anspaugh Science Fiction Contest |
- All registered students at the University of South Florida are eligible.
- The work submitted must be previously unpublished prose fiction (short stories or
novellas).
- Maximum length per entry: 5,000 words. A group of closely related stories may be
offered as a single entry.
- A contestant may submit one entry only.
- Each contestant must submit two, typed, double-spaced copies of the entry. Be sure
to retain a copy for yourself. No manuscripts will be returned.
- To conceal the author’s identity, each manuscript shall use a pen name. The author’s
actual name, pen name, local address, USF ID number, e-mail address, and telephone
number must be placed in a sealed envelope accompanying the submission.
- For this contest, science fiction will be considered as springing from a limited
number of arbitrary hypotheses relating to the hard or soft sciences, along with
realistic development of their implications. Fantasies (examples being Watership
Down and the Tolkien stories) are excluded from consideration. The contestant should
be aware that the judges may weigh such esthetic factors as consistency of extrapolation,
precision of analogy, and width of reference as heavily as story-telling technique.
- To be considered for the science fiction award, a submission must declare its category
or genre to be Science Fiction. Such declaration will not make the piece
ineligible for other awards. That is, a science fiction piece of sufficient overall
merit could be eligible for two awards.
- NOTE: If no science fiction entry is
deemed worthy of a prize by the judges, then no science fiction award will be given.
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Knocky Parker Award for Creative Nonfiction Writing
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- All registered students at the University of South Florida are eligible.
- Each contestant may submit one entry only. Do not send your only copy. Manuscripts
will NOT be returned.
- To conceal the author’s identity, each manuscript shall use a pen name. The author’s
actual name, pen name, local address, e-mail address, USF ID number, and telephone
number must be placed in a sealed envelope accompanying the submission. Do not place
your social security number anywhere on the submission.
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The Thomas E. Sanders Scholarship in Creative Writing
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here.
- Any undergraduate creative writing fiction or poetry major in the Department of English who has
not reached the last term of academic residence.
- Submit a letter which explains your qualifications for the scholarship, along with
a sample of your creative work, and a cover page listing your name, local address,
USF ID number, e-mail address, and telephone number.
- Do not place your social security number anywhere on the submission.
- Be sure to retain a copy of your application materials for yourself. No manuscripts
will be returned.
[Financial necessity need not be a qualifying condition.]
Note: The recipient will be chosen by the creative writing committee. The scholarship
is non-renewable; however, recipients may reapply in subsequent years.
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Estelle J. Zbar Poetry Contest |
- All registered students at the University of South Florida are eligible.
- The work submitted must be previously unpublished.
- A contestant may submit no more than three poems.
- Each contestant must submit two typed copies of each poem. Be sure to retain a copy
for yourself, since poems will not be returned.
- To conceal the author’s identity, each manuscript shall use a pen name. The author’s
actual name, pen name, local address, USF ID number, and telephone number must be
placed in a sealed envelope accompanying the submission. Do not place your social
security number anywhere on the submission.
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The Bettye Newman Poetry Award |
- All registered students at the University of South Florida are eligible.
- The work submitted must be previously unpublished.
- A contestant may submit no more than three poems.
- Each contestant must submit two typed copies of each poem. Be sure to retain a copy
for yourself, since poems will not be returned.
- To conceal the author’s identity, each manuscript shall use a pen name. The author’s
actual name, pen name, local address, USF ID number, and telephone number must be
placed in a sealed envelope accompanying the submission. Do not place your social
security number anywhere on the submission.
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