8th Annual Writers Studio Literary Contest: March 1, 2012 Deadline. Submission Period now open.

Writers Studio runs a yearly literary contest in fiction, creative non-fiction and poetry.* All entries are read by preliminary judges. The finalists for each category are sent to outside judges. Winners in each category receive $250, plus publication in ACCs award-winning print literary journal and,new this year, multimedia ejournal.  First place winners are also our distinguished guests at our Spring Literary Festival on April 21, 2012, where they will read their winning pieces. Second place winners are also invited to attend the festival as our guests. Contest is open to ACC students, faculty and the Colorado community.

This year's contest judges for the contest are 

Nonfiction--Harrison Candelaria Fletcher, author of the Bakeless Literary Award finalist, Descanso For My Father: A Life In Fragments, forthcoming from the University of Nebraska Press “American Lives” series.

Poetry—Dan Beachy-Quick, author of three collections of poetry, including a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award, and a collection of linked essays responding to Herman Melville’s Moby Dick.

Fiction-- Jennifer Davis,author of Her Kind of Want (Sept. 2002), winner of the Iowa Award for Short Fiction and Our Former Lives in Art (Random House, 2007), selected by Barnes and Noble for their Discover Great New Writers series.

General Submission Guidelines  (note that this year, submissions will be accepted electronically through Submittable.)

Writers Studio Literary Contest Winners 2011

For questions, e-mail Writers Studio (writerstudio@arapahoe.edu)
or call Dr. Kathryn Winograd 303.797.5815

Please note: this contest is not to be confused with regular submissions to ACCs literary journal,Progenitor. The deadline for Progenitor submissions is in february and there is no submission fee. For more information on the literary magazine, please contact Kathryn Winograd at kathryn.winograd@arapahoe.edu