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Spartan Writing Contest

Prizes awarded for fiction and nonfiction

Contest Rules

JSCC 5th ANNUAL WRITING COMPETITION

January 24, 2024– March 8, 2024

Formatting and Submission Guidelines

Three categories

1) Fiction
2) Non-fiction
3) Poetry (one poem, 50-line max.)

You may submit no more than two (2) entries in each category.

- Please do not include any personally identifying information on your submitted entry

- Students may submit entries for all three genres, but these must be entirely different entries.

- Citation Styles: APA, MLA, Chicago and (other)
- May include papers submitted in summer 2023, fall 2023 or spring 2024.academic semesters.
- Rubric
- Double-spaced
- Font: Times New Roman, 12 point
- Indent each paragraph
- Margins: 1” each side (this is the default in Microsoft Word 2013)
- Title of entry on first page, 4 single lines, and then text of entry document in the following: Fiction, Non-fiction and Poetry (one poem, 50 – line max.
- Each entry can be no more than 4 pages
- genre: either fiction, creative nonfiction, or poetry
- Grammar and spell check each entry
-Upload entries using form link 

 

Spartan Writing Contest Submission


 

 

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