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The Annual Writing Contest at the University of North Florida encourages
students to display and receive recognition for their skills and creativity.
The staff of The Academic Center for Excellence (Founders Hall, 2/2120)
organizes the contest; faculty from the Department of English read and rank
the entries. Cash prizes are awarded to winners. Entry forms may be downloaded
at the link provided below, or obtained at the ACE.
This years contest winners
Fiction
1 st Place: "Abbas Domuus" by Kimberly Lundblom
2 nd Place: "Yeats, Heaney and Conor" by Christine Utz
3 rd Place: "Hating William Carlos Williams" by Kimberly Lundblom
Honorable Mention: "Nice Guys Are Finished" by Sean Thompson
Poetry
1 st Place: "Conn" by Kimberly Lundblom
2 nd Place: "Seasons" by Erin Dupree
3 rd Place: "Another Moment" by Travis Hayes
Honorable mention: "Here’s Jack" by Jeremy Watters
Creative Non-Fiction
1 st Place: "Poppy Flowers Wrapped in Barbed Wire" by Shane Allen Horn
2 nd Place: "The Raw Pinewood Box" by Laura Bogen
3 rd Place: (Because He Would've Called It) Prose Poetry with a Narrative Arc
by Kimberly Lundblom
Honorable Mention: "Ink" by Alice Cooper
- Only degree-seeking, undergraduate and graduate
level UNF students enrolled for Fall 2007/Spring 2008 may
enter.
- Only two entries per contestant, per category
may be submitted.
- No entry can be longer than 2500 words.
- All entries must be typed and double-spaced
on 8 1/2 inch paper.
- Entries will not be returned.
- The contestant's name must NOT appear on
the entry.
- Entries must be submitted to the
ACE, in the Founders Hall, 2/2120 between November
1, 2007 and February 1, 2008.
- Contestants must submit two copies of each
entry with an entry form for each.
- Entries that do not follow the submission
rules or are missing entry forms will be not be accepted.
- Winners will be asked to submit an electronic
copy (Word document) of the entry for publication.
- Winning
entries will be published by the ACE.
- Prize money awards will be $125 for first place, $100 for
second place, and $75 for third place.
Winners will be recognized at the
annual UNF Honors Convocation.
ENTRY CATEGORIES
Poetry Short Fiction Creative Non-Fiction |
