Submission Information

Deadline: Wednesday, January 11, 2013. View writing category guidelines.

Sign Up and Submit Contest Entries Online

Go to www.artandwriting.org to
  • Register
  • Complete contest entry forms (print and sign two copies of each form)
  • Upload contest writing entries

Mail or Deliver Entry Forms and Contest Fees

Include:
  • Two copies of the signed submission entry forms
  • Contest entry fees OR a request for a fee waiver

By Mail:
Missouri Scholastic Writing Awards Contest
Prairie Lands Writing Project at Missouri Western State University
4525 Downs Drive
St. Joseph, MO 64507-2246

By Delivery:
Missouri Scholastic Writing Awards Contest
Prairie Lands Writing Project at Missouri Western State University
Eder Hall 201
St. Joseph, MO 64507

Fees: $5.00 for each individual category submission and $20.00 for each portfolio submission. Make checks payable to Missouri Western State University.

Fee waiver request: Students for whom fees would be a barrier to participation, including those who currently qualify under the Federal School Lunch Act for the Free and Reduced Lunch program, may submit a request on school letterhead, signed by a teacher or administrator, that their fees be waived.

Students who are 12 years old or younger may not sign up or submit contest entries online. They should obtain a paper submission entry form at www.artandwriting.org and mail or deliver their signed entry forms, fees, and contest entries to the address listed above.