Fund Raising Event benefiting Carnegie Art Museum’s exhibit and education programs!

Fiesta Noche de Recuerdos

celebrate memories, contemporary art and heritage

Saturday, October 14 , 2017  – 6-9pm

at Carnegie Art Museum/ reservations required

info:  carnegieam.org/ 805 385-8158

Event Information:

Fiesta Noche de Recuerdos

A Spectacular Evening cherishing memories and remembering loved ones while aiding the Museum’s exhibit and education programs! Music by Dueto Romantico Angel y Paloma, hops, specialty drinks, catering by Pacifica Culinary Arts Academy, amazing desserts, VIP preview hour, affordable art, and a Día de los Muertos Altar in memory of Jackson Wheeler.  Costumes in the Day of the Dead theme appreciated but not obligatory. View Linda Arreola’s exhibit The Avalanche and The Silence and a select showing of California Latino Art by Frank Romero, Gronk, David Flury, Carlos Almaraz, Patssi Valdez and Andrea Yomtob.

 

RSVP by October 7, 2017 – 805.385.8158 or @carnegieam.org

$100 VIP 6pm preview admission, swag bag & drawing ticket

$90 VIP 6pm preview admission & swag bag

$50 CAM members 7-9pm admission & refreshments

$60 general 7-9pm admission & refreshments

Fiesta Art Sale Fundraiser

Purchase small masterpieces donated by SoCal artists before public release.

VIPs have first purchase opportunity during 6-7pm preview.

Supported by Carnegie Art Museum Cornerstones – a 501©3 non-profit.

Proceeds benefit Museum exhibit and education programs.

 

Fiesta Noche de Recuerdos Sponsors:

Fuego/Fire –

Amy Cherot

Law Office Of Joseph A. Rund

Agua/Water –

Grant courtesy Suzanne Chadwick

Keith & Arlene Beckwith, Realtors, affiliated with Keller Williams

Darin and Lisa Hornbaker

Denise and Greg Sanford

The Green Law Group, LLP

 

Fiesta Brew Sponsor – Anacapa Brewing Company

Fiesta Dessert Sponsor – Desserts To Die For

Fiesta Marigold Sponsor – Sun Valley Floral

 

Fiesta Noche de Recuerdos will be set amid the smart, geometric art of one of California Community Foundation’s 2016 Fellowship in Visual Arts Award Winners, Linda Arreola, whose major Carnegie exhibit will coincide with the Getty’s own Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA exploring Latin American and Latino art in exhibits from San Diego to Santa Barbara. Above in Carnegie’s Mezzanine Gallery to spread the educational value of the Día de los Muertos tradition, will be an ofrenda (altar) in memory of the late poet and art collector Jackson Wheeler. Hanging above will be papel picado designs customized by Los Angeles print artist Daniel Gonzalez. California Latino art from Carnegie’s collection will also be exhibited, including the 21ft History of the Chicano Movimiento by Frank Romero newly returned from his retrospective at the Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach. Live music by Dueto Romantico Angel Y Paloma, hops by Anacapa Brewing Company, specialty desserts and drinks, catering by Pacifica Culinary Arts Academy, a VIP preview hour, swag bags, an affordable art sale and prizes, shall all make this event one to be proud to help and fun to attend.

Contacts:

Lisa Horan  805 385-8254/ Suzanne Bellah  805 444-2411

lisa.horan@oxnard.org       /           suzanne.bellah@oxnard.org

CARNEGIE ART MUSEUM/  424 South C Street / Oxnard, California  93030

Thurs-Sat  10am-5pm & Sun 1-5pm   closed holidays

805.385.8157/5158 carnegieam.org

 

Deadline: September 30, 2017! Dream Quest One Poetry & Writing Contest – Winter 2017

LAST CALL FOR ENTRIES!

THE DREAM QUEST ONE POETRY & WRITING CONTEST is international, and open to anyone who loves expressing innermost thoughts and feelings into the beautiful literary art of poetry or writing a story that is worth telling everyone! Guidelines: (1) Write a poem, 30 lines or fewer on any subject, form or style. And/or (2) Write short story, 5 pages maximum length, single or double line spacing, on any subject or theme. Genres: fiction, nonfiction or creative nonfiction. Multiple poem and short story entries are accepted. (www.dreamquestone.com)

Postmarked deadline: All entries must be submitted by:

September 30, 2017 at 11:59 PM – Central Standard Time (CST)

Prizes:

Writing First Prize is $500;

Second: $250; Third: $100.

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Poetry First Prize: $250;

Second: $125;

Third: $50.

All contest winners works will be published online in the Dare to Dream pages, on November 12, 2017.

Entry fees: $10 per story, $5 per poem.

To send entries by mail: Include title of poem(s) or stori(es), name, address, phone#, email, brief biographical info. (Tell us a little about yourself) on the coversheet; add a self-addressed stamped envelope for entry confirmation.

Fees payable to: “DREAMQUESTONE.COM”

Mail to: Dream Quest One

Poetry & Writing Contest

P.O. Box 3141

Chicago, IL 60654

 

Visit http://www.dreamquestone.com for details on how to enter now!

ThePensters Essay Writing Contest: $1000 Scholarship for Your Essay

Take part in ThePensters Essay Writing Contest and get a chance to win $1000 scholarship for your college study!

2017 Readers Choice Awards Contest by TCK Publishing

2017 Readers Choice Awards by TCK Publishing

Winner will receive a Kindle Fire HD 8 Tablet + A Book Review.

TCK Publishing is recognizing indie, self-published, and traditionally published authors and we’re inviting all of you to join this year’s Readers Choice Book Awards contest.

Get connected with your fans and ask them for their support by voting for you to boost your chances of winning!

Readers Choice Award Categories

• General Non-Fiction
• Advice
• Self-Help
• Business and Investing
• Health
• Romance
• Fantasy
• Mystery
• Thriller
• Science Fiction
• YA and Middle Grade
• Children’s Book
• Historical Fiction
• General Fiction
• Memoir
• Religion

How the Contest Works

1. Self-published and indie authors may submit one (1) book in any of the given categories for FREE. Limit one free entry per author and per email address. Entries for additional books after your first may be purchased here.

2. Entries are subject to evaluation and review by the TCK Publishing Readers Choice Awards committee (they’re not just automatically approved).

3. The TCK Publishing Readers Choice Awards committee will review and determine the final book entries.

4. Successful entries will be notified through a confirmation email from TCK Publishing.

5. All approved submissions will be featured on the Readers Choice Voting Page.

6. Casting of votes will be open until December 10, 2017 (authors are allowed to vote once).

7. The book entry with the highest votes will be declared the winner.

8. Declaration of winner and awarding of prizes will be on December 17, 2017.

9. The winner will be notified through an email from the TCK Publishing Readers Choice Awards committee.

Deadline for submission is until December 10, 2017. 

Visit the website for details on how to enter:

https://www.tckpublishing.com/2017-readers-choice-awards/

The 3rd Annual “Storytellers of Tomorrow” – High School Creative Writing Contest

The 3^rd Annual “Storytellers of Tomorrow”

High School Creative Writing Contest

The Ringling College of Art + Design Creative Writing Program was created to support, empower, and honor young writers. It’s an exciting time to be a writer thanks to the increasing number of narrative possibilities that new technologies and media offer. We believe that well-told stories can speak truths and communicate ideas in a way that nothing else can.

To that end, we’re inviting all high-school age students to submit unpublished, original English-language stories of up to 2,000 words in length for the 3^rd Annual “Storytellers of Tomorrow” Contest. The criteria for earning prizes in this contest is simply overall quality, meaning that well-edited, engaging, and evocative stories have the best chance of wowing the judges.

Submission Guidelines: Send your story as a .doc, .docx, or .pdf attachment through email. Along with your submission, please include your name, your high school, your current grade level, and a few sentences about your background in writing, your hobbies/interests, or anything else you’d like to share to give us a stronger sense of who you are.

Students are asked to send no more than one (1) submission per category. The two categories are Literary Stories (think Tim O’Brien, O. Henry, John Green, and Alice Walker) or Genre Stories (think Neil Gaiman, Edgar Allen Poe, J.K. Rowling, and Philip K. Dick). Students can submit work to both contests if they choose. While these submissions can be traditional short stories, we are also quite open to graphic narratives, scripts, picture book manuscripts, comics, and other literary forms/blends for either submission category.

Submission Address: creativewriting@ringling.edu

(please include “Storytellers of Tomorrow” in the subject line)

Deadline: December 1, 2017

(Winners will be notified in January 2018)

Initial Judges: The Ringling College of Art + Design Creative Writing Program faculty

Final Judge: Virgil Suarez, author of Latin Jazz and The Soviet Circus Comes to Havana & Other Stories

Entry Fee: None

Prizes in each category:

1^st prize: $200 & a Ringling College of Art + Design t-shirt

2^nd prize: $100 & a Ringling College of Art + Design t-shirt

3^rd prize: $50 & a Ringling College of Art + Design t-shirt

**The judges reserve the right to award as many Honorable Mentions as the submissions merit. This honor includes each author receiving a Ringling College of Art + Design t-shirt.

**The top winner in each category will have the opportunity for their story to be published in Shift, the Creative Writing Program’s new literary arts journal. Beyond that one-time publication, authors retain all rights to their stories.

Visit the website:  https://www.ringling.edu/writingcontest

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Ryan G. Van Cleave

Author, Writing Coach, & Keynote Speaker

Ringleader of the Creative Writing Program @ The Ringling College of Art + Design

Visit Me: www.ryangvancleave.com

LinkedIn Me: www.linkedin.com/in/ryangvancleave

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Deadline Sept 30! Our Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest

Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest – Last Call!

Your opportunity to enter this contest closes at the end of the day on September 30, 2017. That’s midnight Eastern US time on Saturday night. Already entered? Additional poems are welcome. We’ll award $1,500 to the best poem in any style, and $1,500 to the best poem that rhymes or has a traditional style. 10 honorable mentions will receive $100 each. Submit published or unpublished work. The top 12 poems will be published online. Submit at  winningwriters.com/tompoetry

$12 entry fee per poem. Submit as many poems as you like. No restriction on country or age of author. Judge: S. Mei Sheng Frazier, assisted by Jim DuBois. This contest is sponsored by Winning Writers, one of the “101 Best Websites for Writers” (Writer’s Digest).

Visit the website:  https://winningwriters.com/our-contests

Prefer to Enter by Mail?

Send your entry and fee to: Winning Writers, Attn: Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest, 351 Pleasant Street, PMB 222, Northampton, MA 01060-3961, USA. Checks must be drawn on US banks in US funds. You may also send US currency. Postmark your entry by September 30.

Questions?

See past winners and more contest information at winningwriters.com/tompoetry

Musicworks’ Sonic Geography Writing Contest – Deadline: October 27, 2017

MUSICWORKS’ 2017 SONIC GEOGRAPHY WRITING CONTEST IS OPEN

Annual juried contest offers top three winners cash prizes and publication

in Canada’s acclaimed magazine about experimental music and sound art.

Deadline for entries is October 27, 2017. Winners will be announced in February 2018.

Musicworks’ seventh annual Sonic Geography Writing contest is now open to receive entries from anywhere in the world! Musicworks has been exploring experimental music and sound in a triannual magazine since 1978. Its annual juried contests spotlight new literary and musical talent, offering cash prizes and opportunities to be published and heard.

Sonic Geography Writing Contest

The elemental music of the Selkirk Mountains. The hiss and harmonics of the London Underground. The soothing, rhythmic swish of a school photocopier. These  sounds have inspired some of our past contest winners. Choose any location—urban or rural, indoors or outside, cacophonous or quiet—and describe how sound shapes your experience in prose or poetic writing. Maximum length: 500 words. Accepted file types: PDF only. $25 entry fee includes a one-year subscription to Musicworks magazine; $5 each additional entry (unlimited).

First Prize: $500 cash, piece published in the Spring 2018 issue of Musicworks and online

Second Prize: $200 cash and and piece published on musicworks.ca

Third Prize: $100 cash and piece published on musicworks.ca

For more info, visit:  https://www.musicworks.ca/contest

Also check out our Electronic Music Composition Contest

Compose a piece in one of the following experimental genres: Acousmatic, Electroacoustic, Glitch, Intelligent Dance Music, Turntable art, or Video music. 

Maximum time: 10 minutes. Accepted file types: MP3 or MP4 only

L. Ron Hubbard’s Writers of the Future Contest 2017

L. Ron Hubbard’s Writers of the Future Contest is an opportunity for new and amateur writers of new short stories or novelettes of science fiction or fantasy. No entry fee is required. Entrants retain all publication rights. All awards are adjudicated by professional writers only. Prizes every three months: $1,000, $750, $500, Annual Grand Prize: $5,000 additional!

Writer Contest Rules

• ENTRANTS RETAIN ALL PUBLICATION RIGHTS

• NO ENTRY FEE IS REQUIRED

• ALL AWARDS ARE ADJUDICATED BY PROFESSIONAL WRITERS ONLY

• PRIZES EVERY THREE MONTHS: $1,000, $750, $500

• ANNUAL GRAND PRIZE: $5,000 ADDITIONAL!

• OPPORTUNITY FOR NEW AND AMATEUR WRITERS OF NEW SHORT STORIES OR NOVELETTES OF SF OR FANTASY

1. No entry fee is required, and all rights in the story remain the property of the author. All types of science fiction, fantasy and dark fantasy are welcome.

2. By submitting to the Contest, the entrant agrees to abide by all Contest rules.

3. All entries must be original works, in English. Plagiarism, which includes the use of third-party poetry, song lyrics, characters or another person’s universe, without written permission, will result in disqualification. Excessive violence or sex, determined by the judges, will result in disqualification. Entries may not have been previously published in professional media.

4. To be eligible, entries must be works of prose, up to 17,000 words in length. We regret we cannot consider poetry, or works intended for children.

5. The Contest is open only to those who have not professionally published a novel or short novel, or more than one novelette, or more than three short stories, in any medium. Professional publication is deemed to be payment of at least six cents per word, and at least 5,000 copies, or 5,000 hits.

6. Entries submitted in hard copy must be typewritten or a computer printout in black ink on white paper, printed only on the front of the paper, double-spaced, with numbered pages. All other formats will be disqualified. Each entry must have a cover page with the title of the work, the author’s legal name, a pen name if applicable, address, telephone number, e-mail address and an approximate word count. Every subsequent page must carry the title and a page number, but the author’s name must be deleted to facilitate fair, anonymous judging.

Entries submitted electronically must be double-spaced and must include the title and page number on each page, but not the author’s name. Electronic submissions will separately include the author’s legal name, pen name if applicable, address, telephone number, e-mail address and approximate word count.

7. Manuscripts will be returned after judging only if the author has provided return postage on a self-addressed envelope.

8. We accept only entries that do not require a delivery signature for us to receive them.

9. There shall be three cash prizes in each quarter: a First Prize of $1,000, a Second Prize of $750, and a Third Prize of $500, in US dollars. In addition, at the end of the year the winners will have their entries rejudged, and a Grand Prize winner shall be determined and receive an additional $5,000. All winners will also receive trophies.

10. The Contest has four quarters, beginning on October 1, January 1, April 1 and July 1. The year will end on September 30. To be eligible for judging in its quarter, an entry must be postmarked or received electronically no later than midnight on the last day of the quarter. Late entries will be included in the following quarter and the Contest Administration will so notify the entrant.

11. Each entrant may submit only one manuscript per quarter. Winners are ineligible to make further entries in the Contest.

12. All entries for each quarter are final. No revisions are accepted.

13. Entries will be judged by professional authors. The decisions of the judges are entirely their own, and are final.

14. Winners in each quarter will be individually notified of the results by phone, mail or e-mail.

15. This Contest is void where prohibited by law.

OR SEND YOUR ENTRY BY MAIL TO:
L. Ron Hubbard’s Writers of the Future Contest
7051 Hollywood Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90028

Visit the website:  http://www.writersofthefuture.com/enter-writer-contest/

THE POETRY KIT SUMMER COMPETITION 2017 – Closing 23rd October 2017

This year’s competition is for poetry on any subject. 
There are no style or length restrictions but it should be stressed that a short poem is just as likely to be selected  as a longer one.  Sole Judge for the competition is Lesley Burt.
1st prize is £100. 
Selected poems will be published in a special edition of CITN ENTER ONLINE. Entry is by email to comps@poetrykit.org  after an appropriate fee is paid by Pay Pal to the account of info@poetrykit.org

All entries must be received before midnight 23rd October 2017.

Entries received after this time will be discarded. All entries are judged anonymously so please do not put any identifying features on the poems.
Entry fees are as follows;  
1 poem    £3.50  3 Poems  £8.00  5 poems  £10

For further details and to enter online see https://www.poetrykit.org/comp-spring.htm

Call for Submissions For 6th Annual LaBute New Theater Festival

The St. Louis Actors’ Studio is proud to announce call for submissions for the 6^th Annual LaBute New Theater Festival at the Gaslight Theater, with plays debuting from July 06 – 29, 2018.

Submissions will be accepted through December 31, 2017. (High School Submissions through April 15, 2018)

Professional Submissions: Successful entries will have no more than four characters and be crafted specifically to exploit our intimate performance space. (18′ x 18′ stage) Changes in scenery or setting should be achievable quickly and with few major set moves.  Our focus is on fundamental dramaturgy: plot, character and theme.

Professional, new and previously unproduced one-act play submissions should include a letter of inquiry, a synopsis and a 10-page sample from the script. Running time for each performance should not exceed 45 minutes.

Up to eight plays will be chosen,  in addition, a new piece from Mr. LaBute will be performed every night for the run of the festival.  Mr. LaBute is scheduled to participate in the opening weekend activities.

High School Submissions: Winning plays by high school students will be presented in readings. The guidelines are straightforward:  The one act should include no more than four characters featuring a clearly developed plot and distinctive characters. No longer than 15 minutes in length.

Non-Professional, new and previously unproduced one-act play submissions should include a letter of inquiry and complete script.

Visit the website for details:  http://stlas.org/services-view/labute/

 

Submissions should be sent to(Postal Mail ONLY):

LaBute New Theater Festival

St. Louis Actors’ Studio

360 N Boyle Ave

St. Louis, MO 63108

314-458-2978

http://stlas.org/services-view/labute/

 

 

The creative team for the festival includes:

Neil LaBute-Director, Screenwriter and Playwright

William Roth-Actor, Founder, Artistic Director St. Louis Actors’ Studio

Emily Baker, Actor, Director, Performing Arts Teacher

Nathan Bush – Actor

Kate Farrington, Dramaturge

Andra Harkins – Actor

Ann Haubrich – Writer, Arts Administrator

Michael Hogan, Actor, Director

Edward Scott Ibur-Middle School Teacher (Webster), Novelist, Founder- Gifted Writers & Artists Project for Middle & High School

Julie Schoettley, Documentary Film editor, Script Development Editor

Christopher Limber – Actor, Director Prison Performing Arts, Playwright

John Pierson-Actor, Theatre, Speech & Dance Chair, English Teacher John Burroughs School

Elizabeth Helman-Actor, Writer, Director, Professor of Theatre Arts -Oregon State University

Patrick Huber-Associate Director, St. Louis Actors’ Studio-Set Design and Lighting, Teacher Theater, Design and Architecture Mary Institute, Country Day Prep School

30 Below Contest—2017

NARRATIVE INVITES all writers, poets, visual artists, photographers, performers, and filmmakers between eighteen and thirty years old to send us their best work. We’re looking for the traditional and the innovative, the true and the imaginary. We’re looking to encourage and promote the best young authors and artists working today.

Awards: First Prize is $1,500, Second Prize is $750, Third Prize is $300, and ten finalists will receive $100 each. The prizewinners and finalists will be announced in Narrative.

All N30B entries are eligible for the $4,000 Narrative Prize for 2018 and for acceptance as a Story of the Week or Poem of the Week.

CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT YOUR WORK.

We accept submissions in the following media:

Written: Works of prose and of poetry, including short stories, all poetic forms, novel excerpts, essays, memoirs, and excerpts from book-length nonfiction. Prose submissions must not exceed 15,000 words. Each poetry submission may contain up to five poems. The poems should all be contained in a single file. All submissions should be double-spaced, with 12-point type, at least one-inch margins, and sequentially numbered pages. Please provide your name, address, telephone number, and email address at the top of the first page. Submit your document as a .doc, .docx, .pdf, or .rtf file. You may enter as many times as you wish, but we encourage you to be selective and to send your best work. All entries will be considered for publication.

Drawn: Graphic novel excerpts and comics of no more than thirty pages, in .pdf format. Please include your full name in the title of the file name.

Photographed: Photo essays of between five and twenty images, previously unpublished (including on sites like Flickr, your personal website, stock photography sites, etc.). Images should be submitted in a low-resolution .pdf or .jpg format; however, upon acceptance, images need to be provided with a resolution of at least 300 dpi, in a .tif, .jpg, or raw format that can be reproduced at 1,024 pixels wide. Captions or text should be included, either with the file containing the images or as a separate document in a .doc or .pdf format, with numbered captions corresponding to the similarly numbered photographs. Please provide your name, address, telephone number, and email address on the first page of the essay.

Spoken: Original works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry in audio theater, including performance, radio journalism, and stories and poems read aloud. Submissions may run up to ten minutes, in .mp3 format, with a bit rate of at least 128 kbit/s. Please include your full name in the title of the file name.

Filmed: Short films and documentaries of up to fifteen minutes. Submissions must be in .mp4 or .mov format. Please include your full name in the title of the file name.

Timing: Entries will be accepted through November 19, 2017, at midnight, Pacific standard time.

Entry fee: There is a $26 fee for each entry. And with your entry, you’ll receive three months of complimentary access to Narrative Backstage.

Judging: The contest will be judged by the editors of the magazine. Winners and finalists will be announced to the public by December 19, 2017. All writers who enter will be notified by email of the judges’ decisions, which will be final. The judges reserve the option to declare ties and to designate and award only as many winners and/or finalists as are appropriate to the quality of contest entries and of work represented in the magazine.

Entries must be previously unpublished, though we do accept works that have appeared in college publications. Entries cannot have been the winner, finalist, or honorable mention in another contest. We accept online entries only. We do accept simultaneous submissions, but if your entry is accepted elsewhere, please let us know as soon as possible (and accept our congratulations!).

Visit the website:  http://www.narrativemagazine.com/submission

Scholarship Essay Competition

Deadline: November 30, 2017

Best Essay Education is a top academic writing service that, for years, has produced high quality academic writing for students in high school, college and graduate/professional programs. We pride ourselves in employing only the best writers, with Bachelor’s through Ph.D. degrees in all academic disciplines, so that we can serve any student need. As students use our service, and receive original, custom academic writing, they are able study those pieces and become better writers themselves. Best Essay Education has created a scholarship essay competition to encourage students to produce their own great essays and have the opportunity to win a sizeable financial award to help with their own educational expenses. Below, you will find all of the details. If you meet our entry requirements and are ready to craft that perfect essay, we urge you to enter.

Who is Eligible?

To apply, you must be a student at an accredited college, university, community college, oct-tech certificate program, or any graduate or equivalent professional program. High school students who have just enrolled in college, are certainly eligible.

Essay Prompts

Entrants must choose one of the following three prompts:

Should students have the right to evaluate their teachers? Why or why not? If so, how should this be done? What new innovations promise to significantly change your life in college? How will they change your life? Of all of the environment threats, which do you see as the most dangerous right now?

Rules

1. The entry is free, but a student may only enter one time

2. The essay has a word maximum of 1,000 words and must be in English

3. Essays must be submitted through our application form or as a Word attachment, sent to bestessay.education@gmail.com, with the subject line “Scholarship Essay Contest.”

4. Once the essay is submitted, entrants must access their Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard or Stumbleupon page and repost this page. Help us to spread the word about the scholarship to as many students as possible.

5. Entrants must also “Like” our Facebook page and “follow” us on Twitter.

6. No offensive, harassing, or incendiary, defaming content may be used.

7. By submitting an essay, the student is certifying that the content in fully original.

8. Entry automatically constitutes agreement on the part of the entrant to all of the Terms and Conditions listed below.

9. Entrant’s full name, email, and social media account ID’s should appear on a separate page and submitted with the essay.

Methods of Judging

All eligible essays will be evaluated by a panel of Best Essay Education writers and editors.

The following criteria will be used:

• Originality of thought and structure
• Quality of grammar and composition, including organization, vocabulary, etc.
• Creativity and depth of thought

The panel shall determine the top three winners, based upon a scored rubric, and will then publish those winner names on its site, and social media pages, as it deems appropriate. Winners will receive notification via email and will be required to reply to those emails. Should a winner fail to respond to the email or, for any reason, refuse the prize award, the award will be provided to the entrant who is next in line.

Deadline for entries is 30 November, 2017.  

Visit the website:  https://bestessay.education/blog/best-essay-scholarship-contest

 

 

Terms and Conditions: 

By submitting an entry to Scholarship Contest, the entrant automatically agrees to be bound by these Terms and Conditions. Entrants attest that any entry submitted to the Best Essay.Education scholarship essay contest will be fully original and is one that has never been submitted or published anywhere else. We reserves the right to subject every entry to a plagiarism-scan, in order to verify originality. Once an entry is submitted, entrant agrees that all ownership rights to that essay are transferred to BestEssay.Education, and all copyright laws protect ownership by BestEssay.Education. Entrant understands and agrees that s/he may not reproduce, transfer, share, republish, or otherwise use or distribute the entry essay in any way, without express written permission. Entrant agrees that the company may use his/her name in publishing the contest entrants and/or winners. BestEssay.Education shall protect all other personal information of every contestant and shall not provide that personal information to any third party.

University of Houston 10-Minute Play Festival Call for Submissions

Deadline: October 31, 2017

The University of Houston School of Theatre & Dance is excited to announce our sixth annual 10-Minute Play Festival for spring of 2018.  Nine selected 10-minute plays will receive a production as part of a multi-evening festival, produced in the newly upgraded José Quintero Theatre on the University of Houston campus.  This festival is open to all applicants, amateur or professional.

Submission rules:

• Scripts will only be accepted during a submission window of August 31 through October 31, 2017. Scripts received outside this window will not be accepted. The name of the winning play will be announced in November.
• We will accept only one play per playwright.
• Scripts should fall in the range of 8-12 pages and run roughly ten minutes. (Page count does not include the title page.)
• Characters in submitted plays should fall between the ages of 16-30 or else there should be no specific restrictions on the ages of the characters.
• Previously produced plays are not eligible.
• Musicals and plays for children are discouraged.
• Submissions will be acknowledged via email, but we do not offer critiques.
• The winning plays will receive productions in the José Quintero Theatre at the University of Houston in spring of 2018.
• There is no financial compensation for winning entries.

The submission period closes on October 31, 2017. 

Plays must be submitted via email. There should be no identifiable information in the script. Your email should include all of the following information:

• play title
• your name
• your mailing address
• your phone number
• your email address

Email play to:  uhoustonplayfest@gmail.com

Send inquiries to:  uhplayfestquestions@gmail.com

 

Visit the website:  http://www.uh.edu/kgmca//theatre-and-dance/

 

MUSICWORKS’ 2017 SONIC GEOGRAPHY WRITING CONTEST IS OPEN

OPEN YOUR EARS AND SHARPEN YOUR PENCILS!

MUSICWORKS’ 2017 SONIC GEOGRAPHY WRITING CONTEST IS OPEN

Annual juried contest offers top three winners cash prizes and publication

in Canada’s acclaimed magazine about experimental music and sound art.

Deadline for entries is October 27, 2017. Winners will be announced in February 2018.

For immediate release, TORONTO—Musicworks’ seventh annual Sonic Geography Writing contest is now open to receive entries from anywhere in the world! Musicworks has been exploring experimental music and sound in a triannual magazine since 1978. Its annual juried contests spotlight new literary and musical talent, offering cash prizes and opportunities to be published and heard.

Sonic Geography Writing Contest

The elemental music of the Selkirk Mountains. The hiss and harmonics of the London Underground. The soothing, rhythmic swish of a school photocopier. These  sounds have inspired some of our past contest winners. Choose any location—urban or rural, indoors or outside, cacophonous or quiet—and describe how sound shapes your experience in prose or poetic writing. Maximum length: 500 words. Accepted file types: PDF only. $25 entry fee includes a one-year subscription to Musicworks magazine; $5 each additional entry (unlimited).

First Prize: $500 cash, piece published in the Spring 2018 issue of Musicworks and online

Second Prize: $200 cash and and piece published on musicworks.ca

Third Prize: $100 cash and piece published on musicworks.ca

Entry portal, assessment criteria, prize details, and past winners can be found on our contest landing page!  www.musicworks.ca/contest

Also check out our Electronic Music Composition Contest

Compose a piece in one of the following experimental genres: Acousmatic, Electroacoustic, Glitch, Intelligent Dance Music, Turntable art, or Video music. Maximum time: 10 minutes. Accepted file types: MP3 or MP4 only

Visit the website for details on how to enter: www.musicworks.ca/contest
For more information, contact Jessie Rivést at manager@musicworks.ca OR (416) 977-3546

Musicworks is dedicated to engaging and building new audiences for experimental music. The triannual magazine, which comes with a companion CD, features in-depth articles on Canadian and international composers, improvisers, instrument designers, and artists who work in genres such as radio, electroacoustics, concert music, sound installation, and sound sculpture. With a dynamic website and outreach programs, Musicworks creates an inclusive community within which to exchange and develop ideas, and excite curious listeners with adventurous music.