Phoenix College Creative Writing

Rise, Phoenix College’s literary and arts magazine, is accepting writing, art, audio, visual, and hybrid submissions from PC students and local writers and artists for issue 2.

Monetary prizes will be awarded for 1st and 2nd places in all eligible categories.

Please view the submission guidelines at pcrisemagazine.com before submitting, and check out issue 1 to get an idea of the work published last year. You can also pick up a print copy in the English Department.

Submission deadline is coming soon!

Write Here, Write Now -- (Mon. Oct. 25 @ 6:30-8pm) Virtual-
This month, YA horror author and instructor Kelli Trapnell discusses "Using Genre Techniques in Literary Fiction." The cost to attend this 1.5 hour virtual workshop is just $5!

to register: https://www.changinghands.com/event/october2021/write-here-write-now

2021-22 Artists of Promise: Creative Writing Competition

Each year, the Maricopa Community Colleges sponsor a districtwide competition to encourage and recognize student achievement in the following categories:
Essay
Fiction
One Act-Play/Script
Poetry

Winning students will receive cash awards, be published in Maricopa’s literary magazine, Passages, and be recognized at the virtual Artists of Promise Event during the Spring of 2022.

Also, the first-place winners in each category will be submitted by the district to then compete at the National Level in the League of Innovation in the Community Colleges Creative Writing Competition.

For competition rules, eligibility requirements, the submission and judging process please go to

https://www.maricopa.edu/creative-writing