Contest

Siegelbaum Literary & Visual Arts Competition
Theme: See No Evil
Divisions: Middle School (grades 6 through 8)
High School (grades 9 through 12)
Categories: Prose or poetry, visual arts
Entry deadline: Thursday, March 6, 2014 at 4 pm
Winners will be notified by phone in late April
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The Siegelbaum Literary and Visual Arts Competition
Contest Guidelines
1. All entries must relate to the contest theme: See No Evil.
2. All entries must be accompanied by a completed Siegelbaum Literary & Visual Arts Competition Entry Form. If the entry was created by a group, there must be a completed entry form for each and every student who participated in it.
3. Entries must fall into one of the following categories: prose, poetry, visual arts.
4. All entries submitted must be original and unpublished. No revisions will be accepted once an entry is received.
5. By entering the Siegelbaum Literary and Visual Arts Competition, youth writers/artists and their parents/guardians give the Holocaust Museum & Study Center permission to use their names and submissions in print or internet form. All rights revert back to the authors/artists after June 30, 2014.
6. All prose entries must be in 12 point type, double spaced, and must be 1imited to 500 words.
7. All poetry entries must be in 12 point type and double spaced.
8. No handwritten Literary entries will be accepted.
9. Artwork must be framed, mounted and ready to hang, and may be no larger than 30” by 40”
10. Video presentations must be submitted in CD or DVD format, and must be no more than 10 minutes in length.
11. All entries must be received at the Museum no later than Thursday, March 6, 2014, at 4:00 P.M.
12. All art entries will be displayed.
13. Entries will be separated into two divisions: one for Middle School/Junior High School students (grades 6 through 8), and the other for students in High School (grades 9 through 12).
14. Winners will be notified by phone in late April/early May 2014. Only winners will be contacted.
15. Winners will be recognized at a reception to be held on Monday, May 19, 2014.
16. All entries may be picked up after May 30, 2014. Entries which have not been reclaimed by July 31, 2014 become the property of the Museum.
17. Any piece of Literary or Visual Art which falls outside the guidelines will not be accepted as an entry into the Siegelbaum Competition.
Inquiries and entries may be directed to:
Holocaust Museum & Study Center
at Rockland Community College
Siegelbaum Literary and Visual Arts Competition
145 College Road; Brucker Hall #6103
Suffern, NY 10901
(845) 574-4099
museum@holocauststudies.org
www.holocauststudies.org