Common Read
2009 Common Read Creative Works Contest
Open to any current CRC resident! Consider responding to The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time in any creative format you'd like. Your submission can address any element, theme, or issues in the text, whether identified here, in a discussion, or on your own. Your work's connection to this year's text should be clear to most audiences.
A starting list of themes from The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time:
- Detective(s)
- Parenting
- Normality/Abnormality
- Health & Wellness
- Critical Thinking
- Epistemology - how do we know what we know?
- Childhood
- Truth, lies, and in-between
- Neighbors/Neighborhoods
- Autism Spectrum
- Ability/Disability
Guidelines
- Submissions can be in any creative format: poems, spoken word, paintings, essays, photography, multimedia, film and collage are all possible.
- Submission deadline is 5pm, Friday, December 4 in the CRC Office.
- Individual and group projects will be considered; each resident may submit one of each.
- Please submit the following on a cover sheet with your project: name, student ID number, campus address, phone number, and email address. If it is a group project, everyone's names and contact information should be included on the cover sheet. Please do not include your names on the actual work.
Prizes!
At least three project winners will be notified in early December. Prizes will include $300 cash checks and scholarships for the CRC program fee ($300) for 2010-11. A showcase of the selected works will occur in December.
Questions?
Connect with Tonya Trabant at trabant@wisc.edu or 265-4785, or in the CRC Office.
