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About
Tennessee Technological University’s student-run literary magazine, the Iris Review, will offer two literary prizes for high school students in Cumberland, Dekalb, Fentress, Jackson, Overton, Putnam, Smith, and White counties. In addition to publishing work from our local Tennessee Tech community, we seek to recognize promising young writers from the area.
The Iris Review Young Writers Competition is funded by the English Department at Tennessee Tech, named after the student run literary magazine, and judged by editors currently enrolled in the literary magazine editing class.
Two prizes will be awarded in 2024:
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Budding Writer Award for Prose (one $50 prize and publication)
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Budding Writer Award for Poetry (one $50 prize and publication)
Guidelines
Entries may be nominated online by teachers or self-nominated by student writers as long as they meet eligibility criteria. Each teacher may nominate up to two student works in each category for a total of four. Each student may self-nominate one entry in each category for a total of two. Please limit poem entries to one poem, and prose entries should be no more than 3,000 words.
When
Deadline March 15, 2024
Eligibility
The Iris Review Young Writers Competition is open to students in 9th-12th grade who live or go to school in Cumberland, Dekalb, Fentress, Jackson, Overton, Putnam, Smith, and White counties. Home-schooled students, residential students, public, and private school students are all eligible.
How
A free Google account is necessary to nominate work, as this is the form system we use to collect and process submissions. Email addresses obtained through online entries will not be used for any other purpose besides this contest. If you wish to nominate work without using the Google form, please contact us at theirisreview@gmail.com for an email form.