Guidelines

2011-2012 Ilona Karmel Writing Prize Competition

RULES FOR ENTRIES

Please also refer to Description of Prizes

I. ELIGIBILITY

  • All entries must be received by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, April 6, 2012.
  • The Ilona Karmel Writing Prizes competition is open only to MIT undergraduate students, with the exception of the S. Klein Prize for Scientific and Technical Writing and the Enterprise Poets Prize for Imagining a Future, which are open to both undergraduate and graduate students.
  • Students who graduate at the end of the Fall Semester can participate in any of the competitions for which they are eligible provided their entries have been completed and submitted prior to graduation (February 2012).
  • No single entry may be submitted in more than one competition (e.g., no part of a Boit Manuscript Prize entry will be eligible for any other competition).
  • An individual may submit only one entry in each category within a particular competition.
  • Co-authored entries are eligible. Note: Complete information on each author needs to be provided on the cover sheet.
  • Works originally written to satisfy course requirements are eligible, as are self-contained extracts from undergraduate theses, presented in a form which could be suitable for publication as a journal article.
  • Works that have been previously published in any form or accepted for publication are not eligible.
  • No member of the teaching staff may be thanked or named anywhere in the entry except as the author of a cited publication.


II. FORMAT

  • Each entry must be submitted electronically with a cover sheet which bears the specific competition and category, title, student's name, local address, telephone number, email, major and class.
  • A header or footer stating the title of the work and the page number is required on each page of the submission. In the case of poetry submissions, the collection as a whole should have a title as part of the header or footer.
  • All entries must be typed using a 12 point font and proofread. All prose entries are to be double-spaced with wide margins (1 inch minimum). Poems may be single- or double-spaced.
  • IMPORTANT: The student's name must NOT appear on any page but the cover sheet which has to be filled out electronically and submitted together with the attachment of the author's work. This is to ensure the author's anonymity.


III. ADMINISTRATIVE NOTES

  • Copyright remains with the author at all times.
  • Questions concerning the requirements for entries in any of the competitions should be directed to the administrative staff of the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies (x3-7894) and List Visual Arts Center (x2-3586).
  • In the absence of outstanding entries in a particular category, no award will be made.