NEO•GRIOT

$500 prize for best short story (fiction) ~ $500 prize for best article (nonfiction)
(special prize for best entry by student writer age 13 through 18)

Go!, an online magazine for 13- to 20-year-olds published by Iowa State University’s Institute for Transportation, is sponsoring a writing contest.
We are soliciting previously unpublished work from published and unpublished authors, ages 13 and up.

Rules
• Entry topics must focus on some aspect of transportation.*
• Entrants must be at least 13 years old at the time of submission.
• Entries must be appropriate for teens and young adults. The target audience is readers ages 13 to 20.
• All submissions must be previously unpublished.
• Each entrant is limited to one entry per category.

Categories
• Short story, up to 2,000 words
• Nonfi ction article, up to 2,000 words (well researched, technically correct articles are preferred over personal essays or creative nonfiction.)

Prizes
• Best short story, $500
• Best nonfi ction article, $500
• Best entry by a student writer (age 13 through 18), a $500 gift card to Iowa State’s University Book Store†
(A student could win both a cash prize and the $500 gift card.)

Entry deadline
May 28, 2010

How to submit
No entry fee is required.
• E-mail entries to Marcia Brink, Go! managing editor, mbrink@iastate.edu, by May 28, 2010.
• Prepare manuscripts using 11- or 12-point font, one-inch page margins all around, and the page number and story or article title (but not the author’s name) on each page.
• Submit entries as e-mail attachments, either as Microsoft Word files (.doc or .docx) or Adobe Acrobat files (.pdf).
• Limit: one entry per e-mail.
• In the cover e-mail for each entry, include the following information:
– Category (story or article)
– Title
– Author’s name, mailing address, e-mail address, and phone number
– Author’s age group (either 13 to 18, or older than 18)
– For entrants age 13 to 18, the name of their middle, junior, or senior high school and the city/state/country in which it is located, and the author’s year in school

Winning
Stories and articles with transportation central to the theme or main idea will have a stronger chance of winning than work in which transportation is clearly just a side note. Winners will be announced June 21, 2010.

Winning entries will be published online in the summer 2010 issue of Go!. (Iowa State University will acquire First World Electronic Rights and Archival Rights to all winning material. Winners will retain First North American Serial Rights.)

Questions?
Contact Marcia Brink, mbrink@iastate.edu, 515-294-9480.

*The goal of the contest is to encourage writers and readers to think about how integral transportation is to our everyday lives. Transportation encompasses roads, rail, air, and sea. It includes
• All sorts of vehicles, from passenger cars and semi-tractor trailers to trains, ships, and planes
• The designers, manufacturers, and “drivers” of all those different vehicles
• The infrastructure that helps all those drivers and vehicles get around—the roads, bridges, airports, railroads, ports, etc.
• The policies and systems that support all of the above
†Any student anywhere can purchase books, art supplies, gifts, and Iowa State gear online or over the phone. Current and incoming Iowa State students are also eligible to purchase computers, software, and electronics.

http://www.go-explore-trans.org/
http://www.go-explore-trans.org/writing-contest-flyer-2010.pdf