2022 MSU CREATIVE WRITING AWARDS

English Department Student Creative Writing Awards 2022

Call for Submissions

Fiction | Creative Nonfiction | Poetry | Playwriting & Screenwriting

Prizes in each category: $300 First Place, $150 Second Place

Judged by Aisha Sabatini Sloan

Aisha Sabatini Sloan is the author of The Fluency of Light (University of Iowa Press 2013) and Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit (1913 Press 2017), as well as the book-length essay, Borealis (Coffee House 2021) and a collaborative book written with her father, Captioning the Archives (McSweeney's Publications 2021). Her writing can be found in Ecotone, Ninth Letter, Callaloo, Michigan Quarterly Review, Guernica, The Paris Review, Vanity Fair, and Gulf Coast, among other journals. She is the recipient of a 2020 fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a 2021 National Magazine Award. She is currently an assistant professor at the University of Michigan, where she holds a dual appointment with LSA English Department's Helen Zell Writers' Program and the Residential College.

General Guidelines:

• Deadline: Thursday February 15, 2022 at 11:59 P.M. Submit PDF files below via Google form.

• All MSU undergraduate students are eligible to enter.

• Students may submit in multiple genre categories (but only one entry per category!).

• For all submissions: please number your pages and use standard 12 pt font (such as Times New Roman, unless for intentional engagement with visual and concrete forms). Be sure the title appears at the top of the first page. The title of your file should be “Genre--Title” (eg: Poetry--Art Is Revolutionary).

Category Specific Guidelines:

• Poetry entries limited to no more than 3 poems [up to 10p max] in a single file.

• Fiction/nonfiction prose entries should be double spaced and no more than 3000 words/10 double spaced pages (this may be an excerpt of a longer work).

• Screenplays/plays should be limited to 25 pages (this may be an excerpt of a longer work).

Winners will be announced and invited to take part in a virtual awards event with guest judge Aisha Sabatini Sloan, April 19, 2021 at 7 pm via Zoom.

Sponsored by the MSU Creative Writing Program in the Department of English.