Annual writing award submissions due May 19th

Get ready Union College students to submit your writing projects for the Board of Trustees Writing Awards! This awards event was created in 2010 to motivate Union students to let their writing skills thrive. On May 19 all writing projects need to be submitted with a professor’s sponsorship.

Each category will have a winning prize of $1,000 dollars.The categories that writing projects need to fall into are: Lower Division Research Writing, Upper Division Research Writing, Expository Writing, and Creative Writing. The Lower Division Research category must include secondary sources along with some primary sources if they are suitable. The topics for writing in the lower division research will come from ENGL 212 or Writing for Scholarly Audiences.

The essays will be judged on originality and the rhetorical effectiveness

as well as the coherency and insight of the writing. The page limit for the lower division

research is twelve. The Upper Division Research category must also include secondary sources, and primary sources if they are suitable. Papers for the upper division must not be longer than twenty five pages. The upper division writings will be judged on the same premises as the lower division writings.

The third division is Expository Writing. In this division, submissions must be descriptive, narrative, scholarly, non-fiction and critical writing. The judging for this category is the same as the research categories.

The final category is Creative Writing. Submissions for the creative writing category can be anywhere from poetry, drama, short fiction to novel-writing or creative non-fiction. This category is also judged the same as the previous categories. For creative writing entries, the maximum length is six poems or twenty pages. First chapter and acts of dramas as well as book length writing can not go beyond twenty five pages.

The writings turned in must be written during the school year. A successful writing project will blend voice, style and composition skill on whatever topic chosen. Submit your best writings from the school year. Whether it be research writing or creative writing, bring it to one of your professors and submit your writings. You can submit a writing piece for each division. The sky’s the limit with what you want to write and submit!

By Hannah Fingerson