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Deadline for Writing Contest Entries: Friday, Feb. 24 Last Minute drop-off entries: Sierra Vista Campus, Administration Building 500 (Irma Cook's Office).
The Cochise Community Creative Writing Celebration is an annual event co-sponsored by Cochise College, University South Foundation, Inc., Cochise College Foundation's Diane E. Freund Memorial Writing Celebration Fund, and the City of Sierra Vista Leisure and Library Services, with support from other community businesses and organizations, and, this year, a Challenge America Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
The 14th annual celebration will take place on March 30 and 31, 2012. Events will be held at the Ethel Berger Center in Sierra Vista on Friday, March 30, with an evening reading March 30 at the Cochise College Douglas Campus Little Theatre, and at the Sierra Vista Campus of Cochise College on Saturday, March 31.
The celebration brings published writers in several genres, such as poetry, novels, creative nonfiction, juvenile fiction, and screenwriting, to present hands-on workshops to aspiring writers from the community. It also involves a writing contest for participants, with cash prizes.
Please see links on this page for further details on the 2012 celebration.
For more information, or to be added to the mailing list, contact:
Cochise Community Creative Writing Celebration Organizing Committee Co-Chairs Leslie Clark clarkl@cochise.edu (520) 417-4112 Jay Treiber treiberj@cochise.edu (520) 417-4765