Monthly Archives: September 2011

Bennington Young Writers Competition

Students in the 10th, 11th, and 12th grades during the current academic year are invited to submit one of the following: poetry (a group of three poems), fiction (a short story or one-act play), or nonfiction (a personal or academic … Continue reading

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2012 NJCTE High School Writing Contest: “Our Recipes: Our Selves”

NJCTE Personal Essay Writing Prompt: This year’s personal essay prompt asks you to explore your relationship to a particular food. The phrase “You are what you eat” usually refers to eating healthy, but for this prompt, think about how food … Continue reading

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NPR Three Minute Fiction Contest

All Things Considered’s contest has a simple premise: Listeners send in original short stories that can be read in three minutes or less. Round 7 Is Open! Submit stories by Sunday, September 25, 2011. For Round 7 of the writing contest, submissions … Continue reading

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Cicada Magazine Features NA Student Alyssa McPherson

Cicada is a national print magazine publishing fiction, nonfiction and poetry. The current issue features a poem entitled “a twisted sense of beautiful” written by Alyssa McPherson during last year’s Creative Writing Workshop. Bravo, Alyssa! Cicada is now accepting submissions … Continue reading

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Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney at 92nd Street Y Poetry Center

Mon, Sep 26, 2011, 92nd Street & Lexington Avenue, 8 pm: Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney returns to the Poetry Center for the opening of our 73rd season.  “The mourning bell tolls throughout Human Chain, Seamus Heaney’s new collection of poems, … Continue reading

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