Welcome! This page is for submissions to the 2021 Budding Writers Contest. Are you a Western undergraduate student? The Bachelor of Medical Sciences Association (BMSA) and Western Libraries are proud to present this opportunity to unleash your creativity, show off your writing, and compete to win amazing prizes!

This year’s theme is: "something you wish was talked about more ". To enter, follow the submission guidelines below for a chance to win a prize as well as have your work published on Scholarship@Western.

Schedule

Beginning to accept submissions	Nov. 15 at 6:00 a.m.
Deadline for submissions	Dec. 17 at 11:59 p.m.

Prizes

First place prize – Best Poetry Submission award:

$250 Amazon gift card
Published in Scholarship@Western

Poetry Runners-Up (2):

$50 Amazon gift card
Published in Scholarship@Western

First place prize – Best Short Story Submission award:

$250 Amazon gift card
Published in Scholarship@Western

Short Story Runners-Up (2):

$50 Amazon gift card
Published in Scholarship@Western

Important Links

Submission Guidelines

Policies

General Judging Criteria

All submissions will be reviewed by a panel of student judges, followed by a final round of judging by our panel of experts.

Kristi Thompson, Data Management Librarian, amateur poet and poetry connoisseur
Leanne Olson, Digitization and Digital Preservation Librarian, and short story author extraordinaire
Tracy Isaacs, Professor - Associate Dean, Academic, Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Neha Khoral - Graduate Teaching Assistant, Faculty of Arts and Humanities

Ready to Submit?
Submissions are now closed. Thank you!

Questions?

Contact Saniyah Qureshi, BMSA co-VP Communications or Ronnie Du, BMSA co-VP Communications
- Email: squres55@uwo.ca or gdu6@uwo.ca
- Subject line: QUESTION - Budding Writers Contest
Winners

Congratulations to all of these students!

Poetry
- First place: Jacqueline Chen - Exhaustion, Carved into Bone
- Runner-up: Ananya Singh - Welcome to a Woman's World
- Runner-up: Ameena Abid - I used to be immortal