6th Annual Writers Studio Literary Contest: February 16, 2010

First place winners in Poetry, Fiction, and Creative Nonfiction each win $250, publication in a special chapbook of 1st and 2nd place winning entries, and a guest invitation to our yearly Literary Festival in April. The winners are invited to read their work at the festival. See our General Submission guidelines below.

Writers Studio runs a yearly literary contest in fiction, creative non-fiction and poetry.* All entries are read by preliminary judges. The finalists for each category are sent to outside judges. Winners in each category receive $250, plus publication in this year's special chapbook of 1st and 2nd place winning entries. Winners are also invited to be our distinguished guests at our Spring Literary Festival, where they will read their winning pieces. Contest is open to ACC students, faculty and the Colorado community. All entries are considered for publication in The Progenitor.

General Submission Guidelines

Writers Studio Literary Contest Winners 2010

Contest Judges for 2010

Fiction: Janis Hallowell is the author of two novels, The Annunciation of Francesca Dunn (Wm. Morrow 2004) and She Was (Wm. Morrow 2008). She is a MacDowell fellow and has published in Ploughshares magazine and 5280 magazine. She’s on the faculty at Denver’s Lighthouse for Writers.

On The Annunciation of Francesca Dunn: A remarkable debut novel that 'dares us to imagine mystery in our lives, in our time book that sends us away refreshed, with the potential to see the sacramental in the everyday' – Boston Globe

On She Was: "It’s a book that sends us away refreshed, with the potential to see the sacramental in the everyday." __The Boston Globe

Creative Non Fiction: Robert Root teaches nonfiction for the low-residency MFA Program at Ashland University and previously taught at Central Michigan University and Lighthouse Writers Workshop. Among his fifteen books are the anthologies Landscapes with Figures: The Nonfiction of Place, The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers of/on Creative Nonfiction, now in its fifth edition, E. B. White; The Emergence of an Essayist, The Nonfictionist’s Guide: On Reading and Writing Creative Nonfiction, and Recovering Ruth: A Biographer’s Tale. He has been an artist-in-residence at Isle Royale, Rocky Mountain, and Acadia National Parks and a visiting writer at various writing programs and conferences, most recently the Kachemak Bay Writers Conference in Alaska and the Geneva Writers Conference in Switzerland. His personal essays, articles on writing and teaching, and criticism have been widely published. He is the Interview/Roundtable Editor for the nonfiction journal Fourth Genre. In 2009 he published Following Isabella: Travels in Colorado Then and Now.

Poetry: Ruth L. Schwartz is the author of four award-winning books of poetry, including Edgewater, a National Poetry Series winner, and a memoir. She has won over a dozen major grants and prizes, including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Astraea Foundation, and the Ohio Arts Council. Ruth has taught creative writing at five universities, and is currently a core faculty member of the low-residency M.F.A. program at Ashland University. She has also had a private healing and shamanic practice since 2003 (see http://www.HeartMindIntegration.com/), and teaches The Writer As Shaman, along with other workshops related to both writing and healing, nationwide.

For questions, e-mail Writers Studio (writerstudio@arapahoe.edu)
or call Dr. Kathryn Winograd 303.797.5815

Please note: this contest is not to be confused with regular submissions to ACCs literary journal, Progenitor. The deadline for Progenitor submissions is in early February and there is no submission fee. For more information on the Progenitor, please contact Chris Ransick at chris.ransick@arapahoe.edu