Free contest, Bocock/Guerard Fiction Prize, top prize: $1,000 (Stanford University)

Deadline: 14 April 2011

$1,000 first place
$500 second place
$250 third place

The Creative Writing Program announces the annual competition for the Maclin Bocock/ Albert Guerard prize for fiction of high literary merit. As writers and teachers, Maclin Bocock and Albert Guerard found that students of any age or academic major produce good writing. Bocock and Guerard believed in the importance of creative work of the imagination for all students, and the competition welcomes a wide diversity of writers.

Entries must received by Thursday, April 14, 2011, 4:00 p.m., Margaret Jacks Hall, Room 223

Entries are solicited from all Stanford undergraduates and will be judged by a panel appointed by the Creative Writing Program. The prize winners will be announced in May. Winners will be invited to read from their work on Tuesday, May 24 at 7pm. The prize will be awarded to the best work of fiction, experimental or traditional. Entries may be a single short story or section of a longer work, not to exceed 8,000 words. Include a cover sheet with: a title, your name, year in school, email, telephone number, and the name of the prize (“Bocock/Guerard”). The author’s name should not appear anywhere on the manuscript itself. Include a title on the first page of your manuscript, as the cover page will be removed for judging. Hard copies only (except for students not currently in residence at Stanford).

If you wish to submit to the Bocock/Guerard contest and the Mary Steinbeck Dekker Award, please do not use the same work for both. No submissions will be returned. For more information, contact Christina Ablaza at cablaza@stanford.edu.

More information here.