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Uptown Ink Young Writers Contest!

Submit your writing and art for a chance to win all the fame, fortune, and glory that Uptown Ink has to offer! 

We are accepting writing and art work across genres until May 1st.

Submission guidelines:

•  Categories:
  • Short stories
  • Poetry
  • Comics
  • 2-D Visual Art
• Age groups: each genre is broken into three age categories
  • 8-11
  • 12-14
  • 15-18 
• Eligibility: authors and artist must be 8-18. All work must be original.
• Language: accepting submissions in English and Spanish.
• Dual submissions: accepting dual submissions. Please let us know immediately if your work has been accepted elsewhere.
• Multiple submissions: are allowed in different categories. Please only submit one piece per category.
• Submission fee: free!

Prizes:

A winner from each age group in each category will:

• Be published on Uptown Ink—this digital literary journal!
• Receive one of these Uptown Stories t-shirts!

• Out of those 12 winners, the top three across all genres and age groups will be published in our next printed anthology (like this one)!
  • Which is sold at local Washington Heights businesses, as well as on Amazon.
  • These winers will receive a physical copy of the anthology, with their work printed inside.

Need some inspiration? Check out our newest submissions to get a taste of what Uptown Ink is all about!