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.
UVic students may submit their written work relating to this years theme ‘compassion’ in one of four categories:
- Poetry (150 lines maximum)
- Fiction (1500 word maximum)
- Non-fiction (1500 word maximum)
- Spoken word (3-minute maximum – video or audio file formats accepted)
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 judge, poet and songwriter, Sonnet L’Abbé .
Submissions are open until February 1, 2020.
For more information about the contest visit on the Verge Writing Contest.