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Current Year Calendar
Contest Start:
September 10, 2009
Entry Deadline:
January 11, 2010
Teacher Submission Deadline:
January 19, 2010
Preliminary Judges Scoring Deadline:
February 15, 2010
Final Judges Scoring Deadline:
March 10, 2010
Awards Ceremony:
March 24, 2010
Fletcher Hall at the Progress Energy
Performing Arts Center
Literary Contest
The Raleigh Fine Arts Society Literary Contest is a short story writing contest for Wake County high school students. The contest will begin on September 10, 2009, with a deadline for entry of January 11, 2010. Manuscripts, maximum of 5000 words, should be submitted to the students’ English teachers. All submissions must be made electronically through this website.
Each entry will be read by two preliminary judges, then finalists will be chosen. A team of three final judges will each read all of the finalists’ stories.
All winners, their English teachers, and one other person chosen by each winner will be invited guests at our Awards Ceremony on March 24, 2010. This will be preceded by a Writers Workshop for the students, at which the final judges will evaluate the award-winning manuscripts.
High School Eligibility
The 32nd Annual Literary Contest is open to all students in grades ten through twelve who are currently enrolled in any Wake County school, public or private.
For instructions and rules in submitting short stories, please download the files below.
Letter to All English Teachers and Principals of Wake County High Schools
Application and Instructions to Online Submission for Literary Contest
Awards
2010 student awards will include: First Place Award of $300 and Second Place Award of $200 for best overall short story; First ($150) and Second ($100) Place Awards for each grade level winner; the Dave Patton Award for best story by a varsity athlete ($100); several Honorable Mention Awards of $50. Also, each school having a first place winner will receive $100 for its English Department.
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