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New Beginnings short story competition

Libraries Short Stories announces winners of first Penn State writing contest

4/30/18

Penn Staters Sultan Aljohani, Erica Johnson and Ellis Stump are the three winners of Penn State University Libraries’ “New Beginnings” short story writing contest. Their stories, along with those by seven writers receiving honorable mentions, will be placed on the Libraries’ five Short Edition short story dispensers on the University Park campus and inside Schlow Centre Region Library in downtown State College.

New Beginnings short story competition

Libraries’ short stories fiction contest submission deadline is April 20

4/12/18

Penn State University Libraries has launched its Penn State-exclusive creative writing platform, enabling anyone with an active psu.edu email address to join the site to submit, vote and comment on others’ original works. To celebrate, the Libraries’ Short Stories website is hosting its first university-wide short story competition, themed “New Beginnings,” and is accepting submissions until April 20.

Green New Beginnings Short Story Competition logo

Libraries' Short Stories website launches with University-wide fiction contest

2/28/18

Penn State University Libraries launched its Penn State-exclusive creative writing platform Feb. 28, enabling anyone with an active psu.edu email address to join the site to submit, vote and comment on others’ original works. To celebrate, the Libraries’ Short Stories website is hosting its first University-wide short story competition, themed “New Beginnings.”

Short Edition blue short story dispenser near Penn State Paterno Library entrance security gates

Penn State Libraries, Short Edition partner for first university collaboration

5/18/17

Penn State has become the first educational institution in the world, and the second location in North or South America, to partner with Short Edition of Grenoble, France. The innovative agreement developed by the Penn State University Libraries will deliver short, original pieces of Penn State creative writing into the public’s hands, encouraging direct community engagement with and conversation about writing by Penn State faculty, staff and students.