5th Annual Healing Voices Literary Contest
Contest Theme:
Compassion
compassion
noun | com·pas·sion |\kəm-ˈpa-shən\
a feeling of deep sympathy and sorrow
for another who is stricken by
misfortune, accompanied by a strong
desire to alleviate the suffering.
Details:
Write a poem, essay or short story highlighting the theme of compassion.
› All works should be no longer than one page in length.
› Prose should be no longer than approximately 500 words.
› All entries must be typed in 12 point Times New Roman font.
› Poems may be formatted in any way you like, as long as they follow the guidelines listed above.
› Do not include images.
› All work must be submitted digitally as a Word document.
› No more than three entries per author.
Deadline
› All entries must be original works and must not have previously been published.
Extended
Deadline: Submission opens February 13, 2017. All entries must be submitted by April 9, 2017.
Please see full contest rules on reverse.
Prizes:
Entries will be anonymously reviewed by a panel of judges. Winning entries will be available to view on
the AHS intranet and MSU College of the Arts webpage.
Prizes will be awarded for 1st, 2nd, & 3rd place. Additional merit awards may be given in special
categories.
Contest is open to all employees, volunteers and medical staff members of Atlantic Health System
and all faculty, staff and students of Montclair State University.
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Additional Information
Registration Information:
Contest is open to all employees, volunteers and medical staff members of Atlantic Health System
and all faculty, staff and students of Montclair State University.
Please include the following information with each entry: name, title of work, site location if AHS
(MMC, OMC, NMC, CMC, HMC, AR, Corp), department, email address and phone number.
Please send entries to: [email protected]
Disclaimer/Rules:
› Submissions must be the original work of the participant and previously unpublished (“Work”).
› By submitting to Healing Voices, participants grant Atlantic Health System a perpetual, nonexclusive, royalty-free license to copy, digitize, store, distribute, publish, display, stream, advertise,
promote, or otherwise use the Work and any and all accompanying descriptions in any media or
format (including the internet/intranet).
› Atlantic Health System reserves the right, at its option, to publish any Work, for any purpose,
without compensation. By submitting Work, the author consents to publication of the author’s
name, in addition to the Work.
› Submitting authors represent and warrant that their submission does not infringe the copyright or
other intellectual property of any third party.
› Atlantic Health System assumes no responsibility for any entry, including but not limited to entries
that may be determined to be incomplete, or that are damaged, misdirected or delayed.
› In the event any Work identifies an individual who is not fictional, Atlantic Health System may, in
its sole discretion, disqualify the Work for the contest.
› By entering, participants agree to abide by these rules and the decisions of Atlantic Health System
and the judges, which are final
For Additional Information, Contact:
Healing Arts
973-660-3533
[email protected]
Writing Workshops were made possible by a grant from the New Jersey Council for the
Humanities, a state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings,
conclusions or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of
the National Endowment for the Humanities or the New Jersey Council for the Humanities.