High School Creative Writing Competition

THE COMPETITION

Each year the Humanities department presents a high school creative writing competition, seminar, and awards program. The competition is open to high school seniors and juniors, and it is designed to allow junior and senior high school students the opportunity to share their creativity through the writing of fiction – poetry and short stories, and the writing of non fiction- expository and argumentative essays. The best submissions are published in the journal, Unto These Hills.

The work that shows exceptional quality, talent, and creativity in a given area of competition is selected winner of that genre. The winner of the overall competition the-Grand Winner- is given a plaque and awarded a one year scholarship to Walters State Community College.

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SEMINAR

The seminar provides a variety of workshop opportunities for both students and teachers.

Students

Students whose works are selected for publication are invited to attend a one day seminar.There are two sessions of fifty minutes each. Each student selects one workshop from each fifty minute session. Workshop topics may range from “Poetry Form- Match Look to Content” to “Haiku-d¬¬¬õ: The Martial Art of Economy” to “Nick Of Time- Adaptations of History to Dramatic Form.”

Teachers

Teachers attend a workshop geared to their interests. The workshops may be designed to address the needs of their students as soon to be college students, the needs of the teachers and focus on their own creative work, or workshops may serve as an opportunity for the establishment of dialogue through the free exchange of ideas regarding teaching style.

We encourage all junior and senior high school students to participate. For additional information please call us at 423-585-6922.