Guidelines

2009-2010 Ilona Karmel Writing Prize Competition

RULES FOR ENTRIES

I. ELIGIBILITY

  • All entries must be submitted by 5:00 p.m. to 14E-303 on the deadline date, which will be announced in the Fall 2009.
  • 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.
  • Cross-registered Wellesley students are not eligible.
  • 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 2010).
  • 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 acceptable. Note: Entries must be accompanied by a cover sheet for each author.
  • 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 with a cover sheet which bears the specific competition and category, the title, the 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. Each entry should be stapled in the upper left corner, or, if sufficiently long, placed in a binder.


IMPORTANT:
The student's name must NOT appear on any page but the cover sheet. The cover sheet must be the first page of all entries and will be temporarily removed from the judges' copies to ensure the author's anonymity.