The Writers Studio at Arapahoe Community College announces its 8th Annual Writers Studio Literary Contest for unpublished work in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. $250 prize, publication in Progenitor, ACCs award-winning literary magazine, and invitation to the Spring Literary Festival will be awarded to first-place winners in each category. Second place winners will be invited guests at the literary festival. The contest is open to all Colorado residents and the deadline to submit work is March 1, 2012.
Final judges for this year’s contest are Harrison Fletcher (creative nonfiction), author of Descanso for My Father: Fragments of a Life, a Bakeless Literary Award finalist, and selection for the University of Nebraska Press American Lives Series edited by Tobias Wolff, Dan Beachy-Quick (poetry), author, most recently, of Circle’s Apprentice (Tupleo 2011) and Wonderful Investigations (Milkweed 2012), a book of poetry and a book of essays, mediations, and tales (respectively). (poetry) and Jennifer Davis (fiction), author of Her Kind of Want, winner of the Iowa Award for Short Fiction and Our Former Lives in Art, selected by Barnes and Noble for their Discover Great New Writers series. The judges will also serve as writing faculty for the 2012 Spring Literary Festival on Saturday, April 21.
New this year: we will be accepting electronic submissions only for art and literary pieces through Submittable, the online submission manager. For submission guidelines or about the Writers Studio, visit the Writers Studio Web site at ACC Writers Studio General Submission Guidelines<writerstudio
