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Creative Writing Guidelines
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Mariposa, the literary magazine of Estrella Mountain Community College, is interested in publishing creative, original, and engaging literary and artistic works that showcase the diversity and depth of talent of our students. Because we publish for a wide-ranging audience, we will not accept submissions that are pornographic or offensive, nor are we interested in specific occasional or devotional submissions. The pornographic, offensive, specific occasional or devotional nature of the submitted material will be determined at the discretion of the judges. Submission to this publication constitutes an agreement on behalf of the student to accept the judging panels' determination on this matter. Submitting authors are reminded that careful editing produces works that are more likely to be understood and appreciated.

GENERAL ELIGIBILITY

The author must be a currently enrolled "for credit" student at Estrella Mountain Community College (All facutly excluded).
Entries must be received by the Division of Arts and Composition online no later than 5:00 PM on Friday, May 10, 2013.
Entries cannot be works from a previous issue of EMCC's Literary Review or previous publication. The only exception is a publication directly related to Estrella Mountain Community College and Maricopa County Community College District (i.e., campus newspaper, classroom newsletter, etc)
Entries must be submitted electronically. All writing submissions should meet the following formatting guidelines: (1) 12 point type, double-spaced. Poetry entries may be single-spaced. (2) A cover page must appear as the first page of the document. The cover page much include the author's name, home address, a valid e-mail address, phone number, category of entry (one-act play, poetry, etc.) and title of entry. (3) The upper right corner of each page of the entry must include TITLE OF ENTRY and PAGE

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