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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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The Cephalopod Ranked “Excellent” by PRESLM

The National Council of Teacher’s of English Program to Recognize Excellence in Student Literary Magazines (PRESLM) ranked The Cephalod, an anthology of fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction by Newark Academy’s  2010-2011 Creative Writing Workshop, as “Excellent” among New Jersey high school … Continue reading

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