As soon as there are specific funding numbers available, they will be announced at:  http://creativewriting.english.illinois.edu/undergraduate/awards/

Contest rules are as follows:

Short Fiction:        no contestant may submit more than one unpublished story (7500 words, maximum length)

Poetry:  no contestant may submit more than 200 lines, as a single unpublished poem or a group of unpublished poems

Only University of Illinois undergraduate students are eligible to compete.  To be considered for a prize, submissions must adhere to the following rules. 

*All submissions must be sent to the following email address: sdavenpo@illinois.edu. 

*Depending on your entry (poetry or fiction), the subject line must read as follows: UNDERGRAD POETRY or UNDERGRAD FICTION (not both). 

*If you enter in both categories (poetry and fiction), you will need to send separate emails.   

*Your name, address, phone number, e-mail address, net id, status (undergrad), and UIN number must appear in the body of the email. 

*Your fiction OR poetry entry is to be contained in one attachment (doc, docx, or rtf only), the name of which should be as follows: contest category followed by your last name, such as FICTIONJONES or POETRYJONES.  Your name should not appear in the attachment itself.

Deadline: Noon, Monday, March 2, 2015

Thanks to Anna Ivy and Steve Davenport of the Department of English for this information item.

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