UVic’s on the VERGE Student Writing Contest is officially underway. A joint initiative of the UVic Libraries and Equity and Human Rights, on the VERGE is a reformulation of the 10-year running Diversity Writing Awards exploring an annual theme under the broad rubric of equity, diversity and human rights.
on the VERGE Student Writing Contest: UVic students may submit their written work relating to this years theme ‘home‘ in one of three categories:
- Poetry (150 lines maximum)
- Fiction (1,500 words maximum)
- Non-Fiction (1,500 words maximum)
- Spoken Word (3 minute maximum)
In addition to cash prizes for first and second place (in each category), winners also receive an invitation to a writer’s workshop with this year’s celebrity author and judge Adèle Barclay and public recognition of their award-winning entries at IdeaFest on March 8, 2018.
Submissions are open until February 1, 2018.
For more information about the contest and past winning entries, including winning entries from UVic law students, visit on the Verge Writing Contest.