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Aspirations Literary/Art Magazine
Aspirations, an annual literary/visual arts magazine published by Mercer County
Community College for more than 20 years, cultivates the talents of area high school
students and allows them to share their work with the community. Each year the college
invites local high schools to participate in a competition from which the very best in
original art and writing is chosen for publication. Each spring, when Aspirations
is published, the college hosts a recognition program to acknowledge the contributors and
their brilliance.
Click here for the list of Writers and Artists selected for Aspirations 2013.
Awards Program highlights / photos
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View Aspirations 2013 in PDF format here.
Copies of Aspirations 2013, for any published Writer or Artist who has not yet received one,
are available at Mercer County Community College in LA162.
To have one mailed to you, please e-mail Shana Burnett at burnetts@mccc.edu.
Students wishing to pick up original artwork that they submitted may do so in
LA162 or 170 weekdays between the hours of 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.
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The entry submission deadline (January 25)
for Aspirations 2013 has now passed.
To all who submitted entries, we appreciate your efforts.
Those accepted for publication are listed here.
Aspirations entries may be submitted again beginning
each October for the following year's competition/publication.
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A panel comprised of MCCC English faculty and area high school English teachers selects the winning literary pieces.
The MCCC Publications Office and MCCC Art/Design faculty choose the winning art. Students whose works are selected
for publication will be honored at an awards program scheduled for 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday April 23, 2013 in the Kelsey
Theater (TH) on the college's West Windsor campus. Each student will
receive a copy of Aspirations 2013 at the program. Additional copies are given to the schools for their libraries.
Aspirations 2013 Writing Guidelines
- Written entries may be submitted to Aspirations by students as well as by individual teachers, English departments or schools on behalf of their students. (We request that all schools furnish us with a list of all student entrants.)
- Each student may enter up to three submissions.
- In addition to poems, short stories, essays and journal entries, students are encouraged to submit non-fiction, such as interviews in oral history and projects from courses other than English. No research papers, please.
- Entries must be supplied as Microsoft Word documents.
- The page limit per submission is three. Entries should be double-spaced in a plain, easy-to-read font such as Arial or Times New Roman.
- The upper left-hand corner of each entry must show the title and the student’s name, school and grade. Each entry must be numbered to correspond with the titles listed on the Online Submission Form.
- Please proofread all submissions carefully.
- All entries (maximum of 3) must be submitted online as Attachment(s) with the Online Submission Form.
- Each student must complete a Student Profile, including a brief (two or three sentences) biographical sketch, to be submitted with the Online Submission Form.
- All written entries will become the property of Aspirations 2013.
Aspirations 2013 Artwork Guidelines
- Each student may enter up to three submissions.
- Digital-format submissions are accepted; however, for judging purposes, it is preferred that these be accompanied by printouts.
- The maximum size for any entry is 11 x 17 inches.
- Each student should mark the back — NOT THE FRONT — of each piece of art with its title and
the student's name, school and grade, then package the entries together with a printout of a completed
Online Submission Form. (Submit the form online as well as supplying it in hard copy with artwork submissions.)
- Students submitting art to illustrate literary pieces should follow the appropriate literary code with /WA in the "Genre" field of the Online Submission Form. (P/WA, for example, indicates poem with art.)
- Each student must complete a Student Profile, including a brief (two or three sentences) biographical sketch, to be submitted with the Online Submission Form.
- All art entries must be submitted by individual teachers, art departments or schools.
- Each school should submit one packet containing the art submissions of all its participating students.
- Art entries should be dropped off in the Liberal Arts Building (LA162) at Mercer County Community College, 1200 Old Trenton Road, West Windsor, NJ.
- Art will be selected for excellence, creativity and content, as well as for space availability and reproduction quality.
- Artwork entries will be returned to participating schools.
Submit an Entry Now
Online Submission Form
Students need submit only one Entry Form for multiple entries.
All entrants must submit a Student Profile (included with the Online Submission Form).
Important Dates
Entry Deadline: Friday, January 25
Judging: Friday, February 15
Aspirations 2013 Awards Program: Tuesday, April 23, 6:30 p.m.
Contact
Nicole Homer, Aspirations editor
homern@mccc.edu
(609) 570-3316
Aspirations
Mercer County Community College
P.O. Box 17202
Trenton, NJ 08690
aspirations@mccc.edu
Fax: (609) 570-3844
| This program is made possible in part by the Mercer County Cultural and Heritage Commission through funding from the Mercer County Board of Chosen Freeholders, and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, A Partner Agency of the National Endowment of the Arts. |
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