The Sunshine State Teen Lit Awards
$1000 in scholarships will be awarded to Florida middle and high school students who write the best fiction short stories on
Climate Change
Submissions accepted August 12, 2024, to January 3, 2025.
Teachers, this creative writing contest is great for classroom use. Teachers of the Winning students are Winners, too! Gainesville Health and Fitness is generously giving each Winning teacher a free one-month membership and a hydromassage for their amazing work.
Instructions:
- Write a 500 to 1500 word short fiction story that includes some element of climate change with which the main character must contend. Climate change must affect the main character.
- The story must have all the elements of good fiction, characters, plot, action, dialogue, etc.
- The story must be in your own original thought and words. Plagiarized and/or AI generated pieces will be automatically disqualified.
- The story must be in prose. Poems will not be accepted.
- Winning stories will be well written with few to no spelling errors, tense errors, grammatical errors, or sentence structure errors. No rough drafts or unedited stories.
- Students must reside in the State of Florida.
Submissions
On your story, put the name of your school, your English teacher, and what grade you are in.
Submit your story before January 3, 2025, by emailing it to
TeenLit@sunshinestatebookfestival.com
Scholarship Awards
- First Place- $300
- Second Place-$200
- Third Place- 5, $100 Awards
- Three Honorable Mentions will receive $25 gift certificates for books.
