National English Honor Society
Writing competitions
Official Site created by Sara Herz
All competitions have a deadline!
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Poetry
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International school children writing competition
The deadline for this writing competition is Febuary 15th, 2017 and you can write about anything you'd like to! The oldest you can be is 16 and it must be anywhere from 700-1,000 words. Prizes are listed on their website and it must be written in english.
http://www.kidsworldfun.com/short-story-contest.php
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The Pinch writing contest
Deadline: March 1 (latest)
Type of submission: online or offline
Length of submission: 1-3 poems
Prizes: $1,000 and publication
https://pinchjournal.submittable.com/
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Bellevue Literary Review's Marica and Jan Vilcek Prize in Poetry
Deadline: July 1
Type of submission: online
Length of submission: up to 3 poems (maximum 5 pages)
Prizes: $1,000 and publication
http://blr.med.nyu.edu/submissions
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Lulu Poetry Contest
Deadline: continuous entry
Type of submission: online
Length of submission: not specified
Prizes: annual $5,000; monthly $250; daily $25
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Short Fiction
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Potomac Review Annual Contest
Deadline: March 1
Type of submission: online or offline
Length of submission: 2 stories of up to 2,000 words
Prize: $1,000 and publication for winner
https://blog.superstitionreview.asu.edu/tag/potomac-review-poetry-contest/
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Normal Prize in Fiction
Deadline: March 4
Type of submission: online
Length of submission: up to 10,000 words
Prizes: $1,000 and publication for winner
http://thenormalschool.com/PDFs/Normal_Prize_Guidelines.pdf
Colorado Review’s Nelligan Prize
Deadline: postmarked March 11
Type of submission: online or offline
Length of submission: under 50 pages
Prizes: $1,500 and publication for winner
http://coloradoreview.colostate.edu/nelligan-prize/
New Rivers Press American Fiction Prize
Deadline: May 1
Type of submission: online or offline
Length of submission: up to 7,500 words
Prizes: $1,000, $500, $250; publication for winners
http://www.newriverspress.com/submissions/american-fiction-short-story-award/
Drue Heinz Literature Prize
Deadline: postmarked May 1-June 30
Type of submission: offline
Length of submission: not specified
Prize: $15,000 and publication
https://www.upress.pitt.edu/renderHtmlPage.aspx?srcHtml=htmlSourceFiles/drueheinz.htm
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Carve Magazine’s Raymond Carver Short Story Contest
Deadline: May 15-June 30
Type of submission: offline
Length of submission: up 6,000 words
Prizes: $1,000, $750, $500, $250; considered by literary agencies
Howard Frank Mosher Short Fiction Prize
Deadline: postmarked June 30
Type of submission: online or offline
Length of submission: up to 10,000 words
Prizes: $1,000 and publication, $100
http://hungermtn.org/contests/howard-frank-mosher-short-fiction-prize/
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Nonfiction
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Normal Prize in Nonfiction
Deadline: March 4
Type of submission: online
Length of submission: up to 10,000 words
Prizes: $1,000 and publication
http://www.thenormalschool.com/contestguidelines_2.html
Creative Nonfiction Anger & Revenge Contest
Deadline: March 16
Type of submission: offline
Length of submission: up to 4,000 words
Prizes: $1,000, $500
http://www.creativenonfiction.org/thejournal/submittocnf.htm
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Writers @ Work Writing Competition
Deadline: March 20
Type of submission: offline
Length of submission: up to 7,500 words
Prizes: $1,000, $350, $100; publication consideration for each winner
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Multiple Awards
Glimmer Train’s Very Short Fiction Award
Deadline: January 1-31, July 1-31
Type of submission: offline
Length of submission: up to 3,000 words
Prizes: $1,200, publication, and 20 copies; $500; $300
http://www.glimmertrain.com/vershorficaw1.html
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Glimmer Train’s Short-Story Award for New Writers
Deadline: postmarked March 31, postmarked September 30
Type of submission: offline
Length of submission: 3,000-12,000 words
Prizes: $1,200, publication, and 20 copies; $500; $300
http://glimmertrain.stores.yahoo.net/shorawfornew.html
Glimmer Train’s Family Matters
Deadline: April 1-30, October 1-31
Type of submission: offline
Length of submission: 3,000-12,000 words
Prizes: $1,200, publication, and 20 copies; $500; $300
http://www.glimmertrain.com/familymatters.html
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Miscellaneous
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Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
Deadline: April 15
Type of submission: online or offline
Length of submission: up to about 50-60 words
Prize: “a pittance”
Meet the officers
Sara Herz
Activities and Publications Director
Amina Hasan
President
Purnaja Podduturi
Vice President
Devika Shukla
Treasurer
Gage Frye
Activities and Publications director
Krishna Makani
Volunteer Coordinator
What is NEHS
The National English Honor Society (NEHS), sponsored by Cristina Mai and Lisa Preston, is the only national organization exclusively for high school students who, in the field of English, merit special note for past and current accomplishments. Students that join NEHS during the 2016-2017 school year are REQUIRED to participate in 20 hours of community service.
10 hours must be English related service (Ex. reading to children) and the other ten can be any community service of your choice. We encourage you to submit some form of writing into a writing contest!
*All members must pay $10 membership fee.
*Only 10-12th grade students may apply.
*ALL applications are due before our next meeting on December 13th, 2016.
Volunteer events/
Fundraisers
Students with disabilities and the inability to see need your help reading books! Volunteer to read to them to earn service hours! You are REQUIRED to apply through Virginia Voice to be apart of this program because these students need to have the best of care so don't wait to sign up.
http://www.virginiavoice.org/become-a-volunteer/
Recording Audio books
You can volunteer to read audio books so that students across the nation have access to stories that they may not have in their libraries. For more information as to how you can help please visit: https://www.learningally.org/volunteer
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Book Drive
Briar Wood's National English Honor Society plans to hold a book drive during the spring of 2017 in as many Loudoun county public schools as possible. The goal is to get over 1,000 donations and the send the books to different parts of the world!
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Paint the Walls Fundraiser
Students that join National English Honor Society can volunteer to paint the walls of other classrooms for donations to go towards the club! Teachers can have their favorite quote on their walls.
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English-language tutoring program for adults
Learning English is hard! There is an English tutoring program that needs volunteers who can commit to eight weeks, one or two hours a week. If you are interested please email: amanda.frazier@loudoun.gov.
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Growth and Inspiration through Volunteering and Education (GIVE)
GIVE needs high school students to tutor students in grades K-5 once a week, on weekends. If you are interested please visit: www.giveyouth.org/tutoring-program.
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*Other non-English related volunteer work WILL be accepted BUT you MUST have ten out of the twenty hours for the club be English service activities AND if you go to a non-English related volunteer activity you HAVE TO HAVE a short piece of writing about what you did and the hours sheet filled out!
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Reading to the Blind
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*Year around service projects
This email is run by The National English Honor Society officers.
Contact
cmai@lcps.org Cristina Mai
You may email either sponsor if you have any questions but PLEASE email the club's email first! Thank you.
lpreston@lcps.org Lisa Preston
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Important presentations:
Scholarships
Book Drive papers