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RISING VOICES


AWARDS


AAABOUT 

THE RISING VOICES AWARDS ARE A COLLABORATION BETWEEN SEVEN YOUTH LITERARY
MAGAZINES–THE STIRLING REVIEW, THE INCANDESCENT REVIEW, SEAGLASS LITERARY, THE
GLOBE REVIEW, THE TRAILBLAZER REVIEW, HALUHALO JOURNAL, AND OUTLANDER ZINE, AS
WELL AS OUR 501(C)(3) PARTNER HUMANITY RISING. AS THE FIRST EVENT EVER OF ITS
KIND WHERE AN ESTABLISHED TEAM OF YOUTH ARTS ORGANIZATIONS JOIN HANDS WITH
RENOWNED GUEST AUTHORS TO CREATE SOMETHING AMAZING, WE ARE PROUD TO PRESENT TO
YOU THE FIRST EVER RISING VOICES AWARDS: A WRITING CONTEST FOR YOUTH CREATIVES
AGED 13-18. 
 



SUPPORT OUR CONTEST THROUGH GOFUNDME!
 


ABOUT OUR PARTNER:
HUMANITY RISING

Humanity Rising is a youth-centered nonprofit focusing on giving young
changemakers a voice. We are excited to announce that we will be working with
them to create the Rise Up Writing Challenge, a scholarship for ONE writer who
sends in the best work centered around anti-bullying. As a special division of
The Rising Voices Awards, entrants can be considered for this division via the
checking the indicated box on the submission form.













         OUR JUDGES


Poetry


POETRYPOETRY




NICKOLE BROWN




MICHAEL LEONG




DESMOND HALL




INDYA
FINCH

Nickole Brown is the author of Sister, first published in 2007 with a new
edition reissued in 2018. Her second book, Fanny Says (BOA Editions), won the
Weatherford Award for Appalachian Poetry in 2015. Currently, she teaches at the
Sewanee School of Letters MFA Program and lives in Asheville, NC, where she
volunteers at several different animal sanctuaries. Since 2016, she’s been
writing about these animals. To Those Who Were Our First Gods, a chapbook of
these first nine poems, won the 2018 Rattle Prize, and her essay-in-poems, The
Donkey Elegies, was published by Sibling Rivalry Press in 2020. In 2021, Spruce
Books of Penguin Random House published Write It! 100 Poetry Prompts to Inspire,
a book she co-authored with Jessica Jacobs, with whom she co-founded the SunJune
Literary Collaborative. She’s also the President of the Hellbender Gathering of
Poets, an annual environmental literary festival set to launch in Black
Mountain, NC, in October of 2025.

Michael Leong is the author of the critical study "Contested Records: The Turn
to Documents in Contemporary North American Poetry" (University of Iowa Press,
2020) and the poetry books "e.s.p." (Silenced Press, 2009), "Cutting Time with a
Knife" (Black Square Editions, 2012), "Who Unfolded My Origami Brain?" (Fence
Digital, 2017), and "Words on Edge" (Black Square Editions, 2018). His creative
work has been anthologized in "The &NOW Awards 2: The Best Innovative Writing"
(Lake Forest College Press, 2013), "Best American Experimental Writing 2018"
(Wesleyan University Press, 2018), and "Bettering American Poetry, Volume 3"
(Bettering Books, 2019). His co-translation, with Ignacio Infante, of Vicente
Huidobro’s long poem "Sky-Quake: Tremor of Heaven" was published by co•im•press
in 2020. He serves on the editorial board of American Literature and the
advisory board of Journal of Modern Literature. He is currently working on a
long poem called "Disorientations" and a critical book tentatively entitled
"Post-Craft: Essays on Pedagogy, Poetics, and Experimental Literature."





Desmond Hall was born in Jamaica, West Indies, and moved to Jamaica, Queens. He
has worked as a high school biology and English teacher in East New York,
Brooklyn; counseled teenage ex-cons after their release from Rikers Island; and
served as Spike Lee’s creative director at Spike DDB. Desmond has served on the
board of the Partnership for Drug-Free Kids and the Advertising Council and
judged the One Show, the American Advertising Awards, and the NYC Downtown Short
Film Festival. He’s also been named one of Variety magazine’s Top 50 Creatives
to Watch. He is the author of the renowned gritty YA novel Your Corner Dark
which confronts the harsh realities of gang life in Jamaica and how far a teen
is willing to go for family. He lives outside of Boston with his wife and two
daughters.

Indya is a graduate of Sam Houston State University where she studied film, and
the Iowa Writers’

Workshop where she completed her MFA in fiction. She received the Meta and
George Rosenburg Screenwriting Fellowship, the Truman Capote Fellowship, and
support from the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference. Her work has appeared in the
Oxford American, and been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She lives in Iowa
City and is working on a collection of short stories, a novel, and various
screenwriting projects. Her writing practice is made up of fiction and
screenwriting. In her own words: "Every piece I sit down to write begins as an
experiment with a set of rules, and the challenge is to see if I can perform a
magic trick again, if I can push myself a little further than the last piece of
writing did."



Fiction


FICTIONFICTION




SUBMISSION GUIDELINES




You must be 13-18 years old to submit.



 Poetry: 3-100 lines per piece (up to 5 poems)

 Critical Writing: 300-2,000 words (up to 3 pieces)

Fiction: 300-2,000 words (up to 3 pieces)



 Entrants are allowed one submission per category. One submission is one google
form entry, and includes up to a collection of pieces (see above). All
submissions must be in DOCX, PDF, or txt. format. Previously published work is
allowed, and so are simultaneous submissions. We own the publishing rights to
all submitted works. Our contest theme is growth and coming-of-age, and though
we do not require pieces to strictly adhere, we highly encourage submitted works
to at least possess a loose connection to it. Thank you for your submission!





          

 

 



SUBMIT HERE!


                                                                              
PRIZES:



$300 for 1st Place, $150 for 2nd Place, $100 for 3rd place in each division

1x $1,000 Scholarship for the winner of the Rise Up Writing Challenge for
Anti-Bullying Related Works




CONTEST TIMELINE
 



December 1st





Submissions open.

January 30th





Submissions close.

Feb 1st - Mar 9th





Round one of the judging process will take place. All pieces will be judged by a
panel of editors from our team of seven magazines.

March 10th





The ~40 finalist pieces from each category will be sent to our professional
judges the final judging. The list of finalists will be announced on our social
media and contacted.

March 30th





Winners will be announced and prize money distributed.





 


OUR TEAM












QUESTIONS?



 

Email a member of our team at thestirlingreview@gmail.com











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