4th Annual Spanglish Creative Writing Contest

Join us in celebrating our 4th Annual Spanglish Creative Writing Contest in February.The Creative Writing Contest Awards will be held at the 6th Annual National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language, hosted by the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, February 21-23, 2019. Submissions are accepted until November 1, 2019. There will be separate awards for both high school and college-level participants from participating institutions across the United States in three categories: poem, essay, and short story.

GUIDELINES: Promote the participation of your institution in the National Creative Writing Contest!

• Each local organizer (university or high school teacher/administrator) sends a campus or community wide call for submissions in Spanglish, for poetry, short stories or essays about thoughts and experiences regarding living between languages.
• ​Each participant teacher or administrator at the university/high school will choose one finalist piece (up to 3 submissions per teacher if teaching multiple sections) to send to the contest committee. The committee will select a winner and an honorable mention in each category.
• All literary work must be between 500 and 2,000 words.

CATEGORIES:

• Poem (One each for high school and college entries)o 
• Essay (One each for high school and college entries)
  
• Short-story (One each for high school and college entries)

All entries should be sent in Word format document with name of author, institution and level, and category in email.
Basis for evaluation of all entries:

​Creativity

• Demonstration of Sociolinguistic Consciousness (understanding of the complex dynamics -language, culture, gender, class, ethnicity, etc.- in multilingual, multi- ethnic communities)
• Effective communication of message through Spanglish.

Submissions accepted until November 1, 2018, should sent by email to Elvia Ardalani at nsshl2019@utrgv.edu