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4th Annual Writers Studio Literary Contest!

First place winners in Poetry, Fiction, and Creative Nonfiction each win $250, publication in ACCs literary magazine, Progenitor, and a guest invitation to our yearly Literary Festival in April. The winners are invited to read their work at the festival. See our General Submission guidelines below.

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 art and literary journal, The Progenitor. Winners are also invited to be our distinguished guests at our Spring Literary Festival, where they will read their winning pieces. Contest is open to ACC students, faculty and the Colorado community. All entries are considered for publication in The Progenitor.

Submissions for this year's Literary Contest will be accepted January 1, 2008 through March 1, 2008.

* This year, we have split the fiction/creative nonfiction into two categories: fiction and creative non-fiction.

Please note: this contest is not to be confused with regular submissions to ACCs literary journal, Progenitor. The deadline for Progenitor submissions is in early February and there is no submission fee. For more information on the Progenitor, please contact Chris Ransick at chris.ransick@arapahoe.edu

General Submission Guidelines

Writers Studio Literary Contest Winners 2007

Contest Judges for 2008

Fiction: William Haywood Henderson is the author of Augusta Locke (Viking 2006, Penguin 2007), named best novel of 2007 by Westword. August Locke was also a finalist for the Spur Award, the Mountains & Plains Award, and the Willa Award. He is the author of two additional novels:Native and The Rest of the Earth. Henderson was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Creative Writing at Stanford, and he currently teaches creative writing at Lighthouse Writers Workshop and the University of Denver.

Creative Non Fiction: Shari Caudron is the author of WHAT REALLY HAPPENED and WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE?, named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Rocky Mountain News, and chosen for Entertainment Weekly's MUST List. She has been awarded the Maggie Award for best magazine column from the Western Publications Association, and the Christine White Creative Nonfiction Award for Excellence in Literary Journalism. She teaches narrative nonfiction at the University of Denver and Lighthouse Writers.

Poetry: Aaron Anstett's collection Sustenance was a finalist for the 1998 Colorado Book Award in Poetry. His second collection, No Accident, was selected by Philip Levine for the 2004 Backwaters Press Prize and won the 2006 Nebraska Book Award and the Balcones Poetry Prize. A new collection, Each Place the Body's, was published in 2007 by Ghost Road Press. His poems have appeared in American Letters & Commentary, Black Warrior Review, Indiana Review, The Ohio Review, Poetry Daily, River City, and Shenandoah among many other journals, and have been featured on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac. He lives in southern Colorado with his children.

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