Are you a full-time student who enjoys writing fiction? If so, check out these writing competitions offered through the Norman Mailer Center.
The Four-Year College Writing Award Competition is open to current full-time undergraduate students. Maximum length of entry is 15 single-spaced pages. Winner will receive the following:
• Cash award of $10,000
• Scholarship to the Norman Mailer Writers Colony during the summer of 2013
• Travel and lodging* to attend the Colony’s National Award Ceremony
Students may submit one or more stories (within the page limits) or a self-contained section of a longer work (for example, from a novel). Submissions may be “conventional” or “experimental” and may represent any fiction tradition. However, the best work will demonstrate compelling literary merit.
The Poetry Award is open to full-time students enrolled in four-year colleges, two-year colleges, junior colleges, and technical colleges. Students may submit one or more poems, to a maximum of 10 pages. The winner will receive:
• Cash award of $5,000
• Travel and lodging* to attend the Colony’s National Award Ceremony
Entries for both awards will be accepted until April 30, 2012, Noon CDT. For more information, or to enter, visit: http://www.ncte.org/awards/student/nmwa.
Feel free to pass this onto other students who might be interested in this exciting award! Questions? Please email: nmw@ncte.org.
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Thursday, February 23, 2012
New Generation of Citation Resources
If you’ve been using Son of Citation Machine to help cite sources for your writing, you may want to think about upgrading to Zotero. Zotero is a free web-based tool used with Firefox that helps writers formulate and store citations for academic papers. Zotero’s tagline is “It’s never been easier to collect, manage, cite, and share your research sources,” and the range of services that it offers to users certainly seems to back up that assessment. Zotero offers the below (http://libguides.depaul.edu/zotero):
• Automatically capture citations
• Remotely back up and sync your library
• Store PDFs, images, and web pages
• Organize with collections, tags, and related
• Access your library anywhere
• Fully searchable PDFs, notes, and citations
• Cite from within Word and OpenOffice (link)
• Take rich-text notes in any language
• Import/Export your library
• Collaborate with private or public groups (link)
• Open source, free, and updated constantly
If you have an iPhone, you can also take advantage of a Zotero plug-in called BibUp. This app allows you to create a citation by scanning a book's barcode. The BibUp allows you to easily create bibliographic references by scanning books barcodes and extracts of text. "The references, including the OCRed text, can be viewed on a web page and collected using the Zotero plugin for Firefox." For more information on BibUp, visit here.
A similar application for the iPhone is Quick Cite. To be used independently of Zotero, this app allows you to scan a book's barcode and then emails you the citation in APA, MLA, Chicago, or IEEE styles. To download, visit here.
• Automatically capture citations
• Remotely back up and sync your library
• Store PDFs, images, and web pages
• Organize with collections, tags, and related
• Access your library anywhere
• Fully searchable PDFs, notes, and citations
• Cite from within Word and OpenOffice (link)
• Take rich-text notes in any language
• Import/Export your library
• Collaborate with private or public groups (link)
• Open source, free, and updated constantly
If you have an iPhone, you can also take advantage of a Zotero plug-in called BibUp. This app allows you to create a citation by scanning a book's barcode. The BibUp allows you to easily create bibliographic references by scanning books barcodes and extracts of text. "The references, including the OCRed text, can be viewed on a web page and collected using the Zotero plugin for Firefox." For more information on BibUp, visit here.
A similar application for the iPhone is Quick Cite. To be used independently of Zotero, this app allows you to scan a book's barcode and then emails you the citation in APA, MLA, Chicago, or IEEE styles. To download, visit here.
Friday, February 17, 2012
Reading at Loop Campus on March 1st
As part of The Association of Writing and Writing Programs (creative writing) conference held in Chicago from February 29th through March 3rd, SNL Faculty members Deborah Holton and Patricia Monaghan will join other writers in presenting a short program of original fiction, nonfiction and poetry. Please join if you can and feel free to invite friends! The reading will be at the loop campus, 1 E. Jackson Blvd. Chicago, IL - The DePaul Center (Room 8011) on Thursday, March 1st at 6:15PM.
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Calling all SNL student writers!
The 2011-2012 SNL Writing Showcase wants YOU to submit your best writing to snlwriting@depaul.edu for consideration today!
Think about submitting any "A" paper or an Independent Learning Project that received glowing feedback. You may submit up to three pieces of writing. Entering the showcase allows you to share your accomplishment with others and provide inspiration to your fellow SNL students as they work on their writing assignments. Excellent submissions will be recognized at the Spring Awards Luncheon.
To download this year's application and to view entries of previous winners, please visit http://www.snl.depaul.edu/writing/WritingShowcase.html.
Think about submitting any "A" paper or an Independent Learning Project that received glowing feedback. You may submit up to three pieces of writing. Entering the showcase allows you to share your accomplishment with others and provide inspiration to your fellow SNL students as they work on their writing assignments. Excellent submissions will be recognized at the Spring Awards Luncheon.
To download this year's application and to view entries of previous winners, please visit http://www.snl.depaul.edu/writing/WritingShowcase.html.
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