The Filitsa Sofianou-Mullen Creative Writing Competition 2022 Now Open for Submissions

The late Filitsa Sofianou-Mullen was one of AUBG’s emblematic figures. Apart from being a distinguished literary scholar and a beloved teacher, she was also a fine poet. Her poetry combines honesty with sophistication, spontaneity with erudition, and introspection with resistance. Filitsa Mullen’s book of poetry Prophetikon was published in English and Bulgarian.

The goal of this competition is to find and encourage talented young writers, thus keeping alive Filitsa Sofianou-Mullen’s spirit of devotion to literature and to her students.

All AUBG students and Alumni are eligible for participation.

Short pieces of prose fiction (up to 2,000 words) and poems (up to 200 lines) are invited, with a limit of one submitted piece, prose or poetry, per student. All submitted work must be previously unpublished. Entries must be in English and work previously submitted to the competition is not eligible. There will be separate prizes for each category, prose and poetry; entries will be blind reviewed by two members of the department.

Send entries as an attachment.  Please be sure to remove any identifying information from the file, as entries are read blind. In the subject line of your email write the title of your entry exactly as it appears on the attachment. Send entries or any queries to the Department Chair, Prof. Sean Homer shomer@aubg.edu.

The winners of the competition will be announced at the annual Honors Convocation on Saturday 16^th April 2022 and notified by email.

Submission deadline: Friday 18th March (Midnight)

Judges for fiction: Prof. Michael Cohen & Prof. Olga Nikolova

Judges for poetry: Prof. Vladimir Levchev & Prof. Lubomir Terziev

Prizes:

1^st  150$

2^nd 100$

3^rd   50$