Enter the Writing Center’s fall writing contest! The contest is open to all NVC students (except Writing Center peer tutors.)
The theme for this contest is “Promises.” Tell us about a time when you made a promise to someone (either someone else, or yourself). What was the promise? To whom did you make it? Were you able to keep it? How did keeping or not keeping the promise change your life and the life of the person/being to which you made it?
1st Place - $25 College Bookstore gift certificate and a writing journal
2nd Place - $15 College Bookstore gift certificate and a writing journal
3rd Place - $10 College Bookstore gift certificate
1st, 2nd, and 3rd place entries will be displayed on the Writing Center bulletin board in spring ’12. Guidelines are available below the bulletin board just outside the Writing Center, Room 832.
Your entry cannot be longer than one page. Use 12-point font, single spaced, but double space between paragraphs. Since the winning entries will be on our bulletin board, be sure the story you’re telling is one you’re comfortable sharing. In your introduction, give some background to the story. Explain what the promise was, why you made it, and to whom you made it. (Note--the story should be about a promise you made to someone else or to yourself, not a promise someone made to you.) In your body paragraphs, explain specifically what you did to keep the promise or why you were unable to keep it. In your conclusion, explain how keeping or not keeping the promise changed your life and the life of the person/being to which you made it.
Entries will be judged by whether or not the writer includes the three parts mentioned above and by how well s/he uses details and transitions to tell the story. Mechanical correctness counts, too. Be sure to put your name and phone number on the back of your entry so we can contact you if you win a prize. Please print clearly. If the same writer wins first place two years in a row, s/he will be asked to refrain from entering the following year.
All entries become the property of the Writing Center and cannot be returned.
Turn your entries in to the Writing Center, Room 832, by noon on Friday, December 2nd. Winners will be contacted by late January.
Posted: 9/15/2011