Christine Pivovar, Leanna Bales, and Liz Cook staff a recent information table at the Student Union for Number One Magazine. UMKC's student literary journal has announced two new student awards for creative writing and artwork.

Number One Magazine, UMKC’s student literary journal, is proud to establish two new awards for students to promote and reward the creation of exemplary creative writing and visual artwork/photography.  The $100 John Latosi Award for Creative Writing (in memory of John Latosi, a poet and journalist from New York) will be presented for the best submission in 2012 of short fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry (three or more poems), a screenplay, or a stage play.  The $100 Lena Vaughn Award for the Visual Arts (in memory of Lena Vaughn, a prolific painter from Iowa) will be presented for the best image or group of images submitted in 2012.  The awards were made possible by a private donor who wishes to remain anonymous.

The deadline to submit for the awards is 5 p.m. on Saturday, December 1, 2012.  Submissions can be sent by e-mail to numberonemagazine@gmail.com.  Please visit the magazine’s website at www.numberonemagazine.org, or check out NumberOneMag on Facebook and Twitter for more information about the magazine.

 Submission Guidelines are below:

1. Please include the following information with your entry: your complete name, address, e-mail/phone number, award category, title of your work, and genre/medium. Writing submissions should be attached to your e-mail as Microsoft Word documents. Artwork submissions (photography—in color or black and white, painting, drawing, graphic design, etc.) should be attached as high-resolution images (print quality: JPG, PNG, or TIFF).

2. Only UMKC students (graduate and undergraduate) are eligible. Current members of the Number One staff are not eligible.

3. Previously published work and simultaneous submissions are welcome—just keep the Number One staff informed.

4. All award submissions will be considered for publication in Number One Magazine. Submissions received this year before this announcement will also be considered for these awards.

5. One winner for each award will be announced in January 2013. $100 in prize money will be paid to each winner upon publication in Number One Magazine. The winner of the John Latosi Award will be invited to give a reading of his or her winning entry, and the winner of the Lena Vaughn Award will be invited to display his or her winning entry at the issue launch party in the spring.