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Any Poets Interested in Helping Young Writers?
The EPIC New Voices writing competition for middle school and high school writers received a record number of entries, especially in the poetry categories. Consequently, we need more poetry judges. Every entry is scored by three judges, including at...
Deadline Nears for New Voices
Middle school and high school students have less than a month to polish and submit their entries into the EPIC New Voices writing competition for teens. Students (public, private, and home schools) can enter poetry, short stories, and essays. There...
New Voices: Contest for Young Writers Underway
The EPIC New Voices competition for young writers is well underway. Middle and high school students can win great prizes, but even entrants who don’t final win what may be the best prize of all: feedback from published writers, editors, teache...
EPIC New Voices: Writing Contest for Teens
Many writers start writing early in life. When you read the bios of authors, you often learn that the writer has been writing “since she could hold a crayon” or “as long as I can remember.” EPIC, the Electronically Published I...
The Knight-League Scholarship
A reader e-mailed me and asked me to help spread the word about the Knight-League Scholarship, a writing competition for high school seniors that will award three $5,000 scholarships. Holly Alonis wrote: I write to you as an online liaison for the LE...
New Voices Deadline Nears
The deadline for EPIC New Voices, writing contest for junior high and high school students is this coming Friday, January 16. This is a wonderful opportunity for young writers to win great prizes and have their work published. Perhaps more importantl...
Calling Middle School and High School Writers
EPIC’s annual New Voices contest is open for submissions until January 10, 2009. Middle and high school students in any school (public, private, or home) in the world are eliglble to enter as long as their entry is in English. Categories for Mi...
