Welcome to the University of Alabama Creative Writing Program submissions page.
Find active calls for submission below. For more about UA's Department of English and our undergraduate and graduate creative writing programs see our website. Contact Paul Albano (ppalbano@ua.edu), Assistant Director of Undergraduate Creative Writing, with questions.
The Intro Journals Project is a literary competition for the discovery and publication of the best new works by students currently enrolled in AWP member programs. The program will nominate—chosen by the faculty—one work of fiction, one essay, and three poems, which will then go on to the national competition to vie for publication in participating literary journals. Winning entries will be awarded publication in a literary journal and $100.
DEADLINE: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6
GUIDELINES:
—Submit your work as a Word document or PDF, putting AWP INTRO and the GENRE as the title of your submission
— Faculty will judge blind to choose the work to send forward, so please do not include your name in the body of the submission
— MFA students currently enrolled at the University of Alabama are eligible
— You may submit in multiple categories, but only one submission per category (one poem, one story, one essay)
— No submission may exceed 5,000 words. Prose must be double-spaced, 12-point Times New Roman.
— In the form, you will be asked to provide your name, address, phone number, email address and title of the piece; judges will not see this information.