Prompts and Prizes

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1. Disease and illness are powerful; they influence our lives biologically, emotionally,  spiritually, socially, and economically. For example, we refer to dealing with cancer in terms of doing battle, using language of war and fighting to describe overcoming the disease. Emotions surrounding disease and illness are powerful as well. This can be demonstrated by how a sense of powerlessness and anger in the early AIDS epidemic, turned to action and empowerment with the formation of the organization ACT UP.  Write a short story, poem, or narrative that explores the power of disease or illness.

 

Prize - Gift basket from Shelf Indulgence Used Book Cafe
 

2. Imagine you are a mosquito during an epidemic (rapid spread of a disease).  Write a short story, poem, or humour piece on the epidemic, from the perspective of the mosquito.  How would its role as a vector (transmitter of an infectious disease) affect its perspective? Participants may write from the perspective of a vector of another disease with the potential to cause an epidemic.

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Prize - $2o Gift card from Bookstore 1 

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 Submit Your Work

All age groups are welcome to apply. Submissions should be a written original work, including but not limited to essays, short stories, or poetry. The work must not exceed 1793 words in length, and be in PDF format.

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The deadline for submissions is April 11th at 6 PM EST.

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Submissions should be emailed to ncfwritingsubmission@gmail.com with full name, age, and phone number so you maybe be contacted regarding the status of your submission. Applicants must state which prompt their creative work was written for. Submissions for both prompts are allowed, but applicants may only be the overall winner for one prompt.

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A panel of judges will select the finalists. The finalists and overall winner for each prompt will be notified by April 28th at 6 PM EST. Overall winners will be responsible for the collection of their prize.

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