Call for Papers
Call for Papers: Outstanding Student Academic Writing in All Disciplines
We are excited to announce that this year we will be rewarding the top three individual submissions with a monetary award! The top prize will be $150.
Writing in the Disciplines is seeking submissions for its online publication featuring our students' exemplary writing in all the disciplines taught at Montgomery College. We seek excellent writing by students in all disciplines so that our online publication can showcase the diversity of styles and types of academic writing at MC.
Each department or program on each campus may submit up to three examples of individual student writing from one or more classes in its discipline for consideration.
The student writing must have been completed between Summer 2024 - April 2025 and composed as part of a class in that program or department at Montgomery College. Student writings may not be longer than 15 typed, double-spaced pages, including diagrams, references, or other attachments.
All student work that is selected for publication will be published online, freely accessible on the internet. There is no restriction on the type of writing (fiction, nonfiction, formal, informal), and all topics and fields of study are welcome. The publication is intended to feature the full range of excellent student writing from Montgomery College students.
Submissions selected by each department or program should include the following information:
- The student writer’s full name
- The name, course number, and semester in which the writing was completed
- A copy of the assignment description, if any, or prompt for the written work
- The student’s full written work
- A student release form (PDF,
) - An instructor release form (PDF, )
Please include information about any special category (writing by a class, collaborative writing) with the assignment description.
All submissions will also require two release forms, one signed by the student writer and one signed by the instructor, which can be submitted electronically.
Submit your paperPlease feel free to distribute this call for papers to all Montgomery College faculty in your discipline. If you have any questions, feel free to contact one of the the campus coordinators.