· All entries must be attached to an e-mail sent from teacher’s school e-mail address. Each entry must be a separate e-mail
· Winners in each division will be invited to an OWP Spring Celebration & Writing Conference and will have their writing published in the 2022 Anthology of Winning Writing and on the OWP Website. Winners and their teachers will receive free anthologies of winning writing.
Students and teachers will be competing against others in their own divisions and genres. Divisions are determined by grade rather than by school level: Primary (pre-K though 2nd); Intermediate, (grades 3-5); Middle School (grades 6-8); High School, (grades 9-12), and TeacherINSTRUCTIONS FOR TEACHERS
Each piece should be typed as a Microsoft Word document in 12-point font, double-spaced. If we can’t open the document, it may be disqualified. (Google Docs sometimes cannot be opened without school’s permission.)
IMPORTANT: Do NOT include student’s name, school, or teacher in the attached document (entry) but only the title and the writing. Only the attachments will be forwarded to the contest judges.
Send a separate e-mail with attachment for each entry. Subject of e-mail should be the title of the piece. Title of the attached document should be title of the entry. In the body of the e-mail, list:
· Genre of entry
· Title of piece
· Student’s name
· Student’s grade
· Teacher’s name
· School
· School address
· School phone
· Teacher’s school e-mail address
E-mail entries to [log in to unmask] by January 18, 2022. Entries received after that date will not be accepted. Limit is 15 entries per teacher, limit two per student in separate genres, in addition to 5 sentences. Teacher may enter 2 pieces, each a different genre, and one sentence.