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Valparaiso University English Department Valparaiso University

High schoolers - we are now accepting submissions to our annual writing contest!

Time is always on our minds. We might be pondering the past in one moment and then dreaming about the future in the next. Such musings can take us on fascinating adventures and transport us to entirely new worlds of fantasy.

Create and upload a piece of poetry, creative nonfiction, short fiction, or visual art that touches on one of the following themes: meditation on time, utopias/dystopias, fantasy, or science fiction. Your entry may also reflect on your life in the past, present, or future, whether realistic or fantastic. Due date: March 15, 2023.

Limit: one entry per contestant. Questions? Please contact [email protected]

2023 WORDFEST WRITING CONTESTS
All undergraduate students are invited to submit creative writing works—poetry, short fiction, creative nonfiction, critical essay, and dramatic script—to the 2023 Wordfest contests!

Prizes to be awarded:
WORDFEST POETRY AWARD
WORDFEST SHORT FICTION AWARD
WORDFEST CREATIVE NONFICTION AWARD
WORDFEST CRITICAL ESSAY AWARD
WORDFEST DRAMATIC WRITING AWARD
ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS AWARD
ANNA ZINK SPRINGSTEEN PRIZE

The judges will choose first-, second-, and third-place entries, as well as works recognized for honorable mention in each genre. Cash prizes of $100 will be awarded to winners in all categories.

Students may submit to more than one category.

Submissions are limited to one entry in each of the following genres (restricted to 20 pages each): short fiction, critical essay, creative nonfiction, and dramatic writing. A maximum of three poems may be submitted.

Submit your works (short story, creative nonfiction, critical essay, poetry, play or script) by e-mail as Word attachments to [email protected]. Each genre must be in its own Word file attachment. Author's identity should not appear on the manuscripts of creative works.

Include a cover note containing your name, phone number, age, home postal address, e-mail address, genre(s) submitted, and title of the work(s) submitted.

Guidelines must be followed for work to be considered.

Finalists will be notified, and contest results will be announced at an awards ceremony in the Harre Union Brown and Gold Room, Tuesday, April 25th, at 6:30 p.m. The contests are sponsored by Wordfest in the Department of English and by the Cultural Arts Committee.

***Submission deadline is Friday, March 31, 2023.***

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We had a great time yesterday inducting new members into SigTD. Welcome— we’re so excited to have you!!

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This year's winners of the 2022 “Reemergence: Navigating Through Change” Spring High School Writing Contest include:

First place, Short Fiction - Shelby Prybell's "Nostalgia" (Valparaiso High School)

First place, Creative Nonfiction - Regan Newbly's "To Remember Daily Gifts" (Munster High School)

First place, Visual Arts - Clara Erdelac's "Growing Pains" (Valparaiso High School)

First place, Poetry - Lauren Hefner's "rutilant" (Valparaiso High School)

Second place, Creative Nonfiction - Elisabeth Murley's "Untitled" (Valparaiso High School)

Second place, Visual Arts - Kaitie Shideler's "Covid Kills" (Valparaiso High School)

Second place, Poetry - Magdalena Gootee's "Decide the change to decide our fate" (Valparaiso High School)

Honorable Mention, Creative Nonfiction - Megan Heavner's "Meg's Pernicious Paradigm" (Wheeler High School)

Honorable Mention, Fine Arts - Keira Rhein's "Untitled" (Valparaiso High School)

Honorable Mention, Poetry - Angelika Villarroel's "2020-2022"

All contestants submitted very impressive work that our judges found both inspiring and enlightening. Thank you all for sharing your talent and love for art with us!

Pictured left to right in the group photo:
Philip Bolton, Lauren Hefner, Shelby Pyrell, Katie Shideler, Clara Erdelac, Professor Richard Sévère

This year Sigma Tau Delta was proud to host the 2022 "Reemergence: Navigating Through Change" Spring High School Writing Contest. The Writing Contest is an event where we ask students from the surrounding High Schools in the area to submit their creative works for a chance to win a prize. This year we included a chance for those submissions to be published in the Spring edition of The Lighter, our literary magazine on campus.

We want to take the time to thank everyone who played a part in helping make this a great event! Thank you for helping us Navigate Through Change.