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Traveler Selections for 2024-2025

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The Traveler reading staff and judges have made their selections for Fall 2024 to Spring 2025! Thank you to everyone who submitted their fiction, poetry, nonfiction, scripts, and drama. Please consider submitting again in Fall 2025.

Look for physical copies of the Traveler Arts & Literary Journal later this spring!

Fiction

  • 1st Place: The Assassin, by Bryannah Stevens
  • 2nd Place: Inarticulation, by Ashley Lowell
  • 3rd Place: Richard Price, by Mary Gross
  • Honorable Mention: A Snark Page for Dead Pets, by Mary Gross

Creative Nonfiction

  • 1st Place: Five Things You Can See, One Thing I Can’t Say, by Ashley Lowell
  • 2nd Place: My Horror Story with a Happy Ending, by Haley Ybarra
  • 3rd Place: A Mirror of a Broken Seashell, by Angel Marie Arguello

Poetry

  • 1st Place: Now We Know, by Ruth Claire Brown
  • 2nd Place: One Time I Rode My Bike at Night, by Ruth Claire Brown
  • 3rd Place: My Wife and I Discuss Death While Eating Popcorn on a Tuesday Night and This is Just What We Do Now, by Ruth Claire Brown
  • Honorable Mention: I Can’t Do This Anymore, by Adrian Castillo

One-Act Play/Drama

  • 1st Place: Silent War, by Angel Marie Arguello

Traveler & Artists of Promise Open for Submissions!

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Both GCC’s The Traveler, Arts & Literary Journal, and the Maricopa Community Colleges’ Artists of Promise writing contests are accepting submissions for Fall 2024. The Traveler accepts submissions from Glendale Community College students only, whereas the Artists of Promise accepts submissions from any for-credit student at one of the MCCCD colleges.

Traveler & Artists of Promise Deadlines Extended!

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The powers that be–somewhere, out there–have extended the deadlines to both student writing competitions! The new deadline for both contests is Friday, December 8th.

Give us your poetry, your fiction, your creative nonfiction, and your screen/stage-plays!

  • The Traveler Arts & Literary Journal is open to all active GCC students. Submit your work here!
  • The Artists of Promise competition is open to all active students in any of the Maricopa Community Colleges. Submit your work here!

Traveler Literary Selections for 2021-2022

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After extensive review of nearly 100 submissions, we are happy to announce the selections for our Traveler: Arts & Literary Magazine. Congratulations to our selected authors, and thank you to everyone who submitted. We are honored to read your work, and we hope that you will continue to submit your creations to Traveler during your time at GCC. Thank you, as well, to our student readers and our faculty and community judges. We could not do this without you!

Fiction

  • 1st Place: Half Life, by Carol Powell
  • 2nd Place: Cuyahoga Cuspidor Company, by Peter Faur
  • 3rd Place: I’m Afraid, by Jack Nichols
  • Honorable Mention: Call Me Bathysklera, by Francis Wiget
  • Honorable Mention: You Get What You Pay For, by Francis Wiget

Creative Nonfiction

  • 1st Place: Paper Jungle, by Angela Lilu
  • 2nd Place: God Loves Ugly, by Chuck Wan
  • 3rd Place: The Lynx Lake Trail, by Joselyn Maria Lopez

Poetry

  • 1st Place: Fury, by Abbigayle McCall
  • 2nd Place: The Lonely Trees, by Joselyn Maria Lopez
  • 3rd Place: To Sleep in a Sea of Stars, by Abbigayle McCall
  • Honorable Mention: Enochs, by Payton Sparks
  • Honorable Mention: A Box of Memories, by Joselyn Maria Lopez

One-Act Play/Drama

  • 1st Place: A Primer on Kimmerian Witchcraft, by Francis Wiget
  • 2nd Place: Shadow Valley, by Sterling O’Ray

Final Day to Submit to Artists of Promise

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Today (11/24) is the deadline for Maricopa’s Artists of Promise writing contest. If you are an active student in any of the Maricopa Community College District’s schools, such as GCC, you are eligible to enter. You can submit one entry in each of the following categories: fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and one-act play/drama. If you have questions, or trouble submitting, you can email jeffrey.baker@gccaz.edu

For full submission rules, and to submit your work, head here: Artists of Promise Submissions

The clock is ticking!

Artists of Promise Contest – 2021!

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2021-22 Artists of Promise: Creative Writing Competition

Each year, the Maricopa Community Colleges sponsor a districtwide competition to encourage and recognize student achievement in the following categories:

  • Essay
  • Fiction
  • One Act-Play/Script
  • Poetry

Winning students will receive cash awards, be published in Maricopa’s literary magazine, Passages, and be recognized at the virtual Artists of Promise Event during the Spring of 2022.

Also, the first-place winners in each category will be submitted by the district to then compete at the National Level in the League of Innovation in the Community Colleges Creative Writing Competition.

For competition rules, eligibility requirements, the submission and judging process please go to https://www.maricopa.edu/creative-writing 

Awards

Winners will be notified in early February 2022 by the Maricopa Center for Learning & Innovation (MCLI).

First-place work in each category will be recognized at the Virtual Artists of Promise performance scheduled for Spring 2022.

All awards will be issued via student accounts in SIS shortly after the Artists of Promise gala.

  • $300 for first place
  • $200 for second place
  • $100 for third place

Additionally, First Place winners will be entered in the League for Innovation in the Community College’s National Student Literary Competition and be required to complete League application materials, which will be provided by the MCLI.

Application Close Date: Wednesday, November 24, 2021

Second Annual Humorous Poetry Contest!

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Spring is near, and soon it will once again be time to be funny and make money. On March 18th, from 6PM to 8PM, students can compete for not one, but two awards for humorous poetry. First place in the Randy Smith Award will earn $100 and second place will earn $50.

As with last year, if you would like to participate, bring an original poem, read/perform it in front of our live and supportive audience, laugh at the hilarity of your peers, and possibly take home some extra cash. Participants will be afforded three minutes to read their work, and they must be registered GCC students. See the flyer below and direct any questions to jeffrey.baker@gccaz.edu.

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English Department Scholarships Due Soon!

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Every year, the English Department at GCC gives out several scholarships. Most are worth $300 apiece, and all applications for these scholarships are due by the last day of February. Some of these scholarships have specific requirements, whereas others are open to just about anyone. And, there is a scholarship specifically for creative writing students! Please consider applying for as many scholarships as you like and/or as many you qualify for.

A full list of the English Department Scholarships, and instructions for how to apply,  can be found here. If you have any questions, direct them to jeffrey.baker@gccaz.edu.

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