Tributaries, Illinois Wesleyan’s student-run creative arts journal, is looking for submissions of art, sound, poetry, or prose—up to six pieces, in any combination—before their next deadline, NOVEMBER 30. To submit, email your work to iwutributaries {at} gmail(.)com. Check out the Tributaries website for more info and deadline dates.
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Brown University’s Ivy Film Festival is calling for student screenplays for its latest competition. The Festival was created by students for students, exhibiting the works of young filmmakers from around the globe as well as guest speakers, panels, and workshops by industry professionals. Past guests include Oliver Stone, Tim Robbins, Adrian Brody, Martin Scorsese, and Jack Nicholson. Attracting crowds of thousands to Brown University’s campus, the Festival has emerged as the largest student-run film festival in the country.
IWU students are invited to enter the screenplay competition. While films are the focus of the Ivy Film Festival, they recognize screenwriting as an integral part of the filmmaking process. They have a myriad of events for screenwriters this year that will hopefully encourage many young writers, even those who have never submitted their work to a judged competition, to participate.
Students can electronically submit their screenplays for consideration in the 2010 screenplay competition until the final deadline of February 22, 2010, through Withoutabox.com. A link to our Withoutabox.com account can be found on the Ivy Film Festival website. The screenplay competition is currently accepting both short-form (under 30 pages) and feature-length screenplays from undergraduate and graduate students. Submissions may be in any genre, and the winners will receive a cash prize. Additionally, outstanding work in Comedy, Drama, and other genres will be recognized.
During the festival (April 13-18) there will be a reading of the winning screenplays and we will be hosting forums with screenwriters currently working in the industry. All finalists will be notified and invited as VIP guests to the festival. They will provide housing, meals, tickets to film screenings, and passes to special networking events, panels and parties.
College students are eligible to enter the National Society of Arts and Letters Short Story Competition, which offers a top prize of $10,000 plus additional cash awards. Plus, all expenses for the local chapter winner to attend the national competition in Clearwater, Fla. on May 21, 2010, will be paid for by the chapter. The Central Illinois Chapter contact is Joy Thornton-Walter, 820 Dodds Dr., Champaign, IL 61820-6808, joytw {at} comcast(.)net. Postmark deadline for chapter applications is Friday, February 26, 2010. For additional guidelines, see the National Society of Arts and Letters Web site.
They may be CCIW rivals, but when it comes to writing they’re just another opportunity . . . and the editors of the North Central Review have written to say that they welcome submissions from undergraduate writers everywhere. The Review only publishes undergraduate writers, and students must include proof of undergraduate status (photocopy of student ID without the number). With every submission of fiction, poetry, drama, creative non-fiction, or mixed-genre pieces, students should also include their name, mailing address, email address, and phone number. Submissions should include no more than five poems and two prose pieces; prose submissions should not exceed 5000 words each. For more details, see their Web site. Deadline for the fall issue is OCTOBER 15, while the deadline for spring is FEBRUARY 15. Send submissions via mail (North Central Review, CM#235, North Central College, 30 N. Brainard St., Naperville, IL 60540) or email (nccreview {at} noctrl(.)edu).
The 19th Annual University of St. Francis Undergraduate Conference on English Language and Literature will be held on March 19-20, 2010 at the University of St. Francis in Joliet, Illinois, and organizers are looking for students to present papers.
Submit complete papers (preferably) or abstracts on any topic in English studies, including writing, linguistics, film, theory, British/American/Commonwealth literatures, and literature in translation. Papers are limited to a 20-minute presentation (8-12 pages). Authors of the papers are obliged to present in person. The deadline is December 15, 2009, and there are two ways to submit: By mail, send proposals to: Dr. Marcia Smith Marzec, ELL Conference, Dept. of English, Univ. of St. Francis, 500 Wilcox St., Joliet, IL 60435. By email, send papers or abstracts as an attachment to mmarzec {at} stfrancis(.)edu.
The deadline is fast approaching for the Fall for the Book Poetry Contest, which offers a first prize of a $50 gift certificate to Barnes & Noble and second and third prize memberships/subscriptions to The Writer’s Center and Poet Lore Magazine, co-sponsors of the contest along with Fall for the Book.
The deadline is September 30, and the guidelines are simple: write a poem of 60 lines or less in which you incorporate a quote from one Fall for the Book 2009 author into the poem. Email your poem as an MS Word attachment (.rtf or .doc) to fftbcontest {at} gmail(.)com and include your name, contact information, and source of the quote in the body of the email, but leave your name and contact information off the actual poem. Submissions will be read anonymously.
Streamlines: An Undergraduate Conference Celebrating Language, Literature, and Writing, is calling for conference paper proposals. Hosted by Clarke College, Loras College and the University of Dubuque, the conference provides students with another opportunity to present their work at a gathering of their peers. The conference will be held Saturday, November 14, 2009, and a $20 registration fee includes lunch.
To submit a proposal, use the online submission form to send a 300-word abstract by Friday, October 14, 2009. You’ll be asked to send the complete paper to Breyen Strickler, Assistant Professor of English at Loras College (breyen.strickler {at} loras(.)edu). Panel submissions are also encouraged. Participants will be notified of selection by Friday, October 23. Suggested panel/presentation topics in English, French, or Spanish are: American literature, British literature, global/world literature, modern languages, linguistics, creative writing, rhetoric, women’s studies, literary studies, women’s literature, literary theory, and teaching language/literature/writing. For more information see the Streamlines Web site.
Student writers have until Wednesday, September 23 to submit short stories and poems for the first round of Pseudonym Required, “a community for writers intent on developing their technique.” Send submissions to: Pseudonym.required {at} gmail(.)com or contact Nathan Butters (nbutters {at} iwu(.)edu) for additional information.
MUSE, IWU’s own undergraduate literature conference, is looking for students to present papers at this year’s conference, which will be held Saturday, October 3. Students are invited to submit papers of 8+ pages that are critical/analytical in nature (not creative). Send the paper as an attachment in an email with your name, address, and year in school to: muselitconf {at} gmail(.)com. Submission deadline: 7pm, Wednesday, September 16. Questions can be directed to the same email address above.
If your paper is accepted, you will have the opportunity to read your work to a group of your peers and find out what it’s like to participate in an academic conference. It’s also a great resume-builder.
Students interested in participating at the next MUSE: An Undergraduate Literature Conference sponsored by IWU’s Alpha Eta Pi chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, have until Sunday, April 19, to submit an abstract of 150-200 words summarizing the paper’s thesis, main points, and critics used. Complete papers are not wanted at this stage—only abstracts.
Along with the abstract, please include your name, current address, current telephone, email address, fall contact information, institutional affiliation (non-IWU students are eligible), year in school, a working title for the paper, and any audio/visual needs you may have. You will be notified after May 10 of your proposal’s final status. If accepted, you will then need to confirm your attendance at that point.
Submit abstracts to: muselitconf {at} gmail(.)com. That email address is also good for any questions you may have. MUSE submissions coordinator Linda Martin and STD co-presidents Marie Huey and Mike Whitfield are hoping for another big turnout this year. The MUSE conference is scheduled for Saturday, October 3, 2009. In addition to a keynote speaker and panels on post-graduate options, MUSE will host multiple sessions of student paper presentations throughout the day. Each paper session will contain three presenters, with each presenter given 20 minutes to speak and a 15-minute Q/A period to follow. This means that papers should be 8-10 pages long.
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