Collage 2014 - An Overview

IISER Mohali

We've seen enough to know that there are a good number of writing enthusiasts lurking among the students of IISER Mohali, not including those of you who don’t know that you belong to them (at least, yet). If your purpose is either to showcase your obvious talent, experience the pleasure of putting to words the philosophical ramblings that occurred to you one morning or just to have fun: COLLAGE 2014 is for you.

COLLAGE 2014 is more or less like an ordinary writing competition. Except that, it’s not. One thing that makes it strikingly different is that the competition has a theme – “Treasure”.  This means that every article presented should either be directly or indirectly relevant to it in any way as long as you, the writer, are completely convinced of the relevance.

The categories that you can participate in are:

 1. Essay-Writing

2. Story-Writing  

3. Poetry

 4. Script/Screenplay Writing

The meanings of which are hopefully self-evident. For further information, there are the rules which have been e-mailed to you and are also mentioned below.

The prizes for Collage 2014 in each of the categories will be for:

1. The Most Inspiring/Thoughtful article

2, The Most Entertaining article
And each prize will be worth Rs. 800.

Rules

The theme for the competition is "Treasure". You are encouraged to personalize the theme or generalize it, or present a combination of the two.

1. The articles must be original.
2. The deadline for sending the articles: 21st December, 2014. 
3. All articles (except poems) must be in English and typed in font ‘Calibri’, font size 11, with line spacing 1.5. 
4. Only one article can be sent per person, per category (per sub-category in the case of essay- writing). E.g., you can send a story and a poem, but not more than one of any of them.   
5. The articles should be clearly relevant to the theme (“Treasure”) and must adhere to the word limit.
6. Articles containing abusive/derogatory language will be disqualified. 
7. In case of an article translated from another language, the original one has to be sent, along with the name of the translator.  

Detailed Rules:

1. Poetry: A maximum of 2 pages using font Calibri, font size 11 and a line spacing of 1.15 is allowed per entry.
Entries are to be sent to poetry.collage.iiserm@gmail.com

2. Story-writing:  
(i) Word limit: 2000
(ii) It should have a connected sequence of events. (iii) There must be a minimum of 1 character. (iv)  It must include a climax.
Entries are to be sent to stories.collage.iiserm@gmail.com

3. Script (drama)/Screenplay (film) writing : (i) The play/film must be 20-30 minutes long. The play must be one-act.   (ii) The plot must be divided into scenes. (iii) Each scene must be described in detail, i.e. characters present, environment, location imagined etc.  
(iv) Collaboration is allowed. There can be up to 4 people working in collaboration on a single script/ screenplay.
Entries are to be sent to scripts.collage.iiserm@gmail.com

4. Essay Writing Word limit: 800-1000 One entry can be sent in for each of the following subcategories:
        a. Narrative: Must be written in first person, from the perspective of someone or something. 
        b. Analytical: Any issue (relevant to the theme) must be picked. The essay should consist of the following:  The cause of existence of the issue  A complete analysis, description, citing examples both for and against the issue.
       c. Expository: This essay has to be written on any one of the given Words; it must be related and relevant to the word and the theme.  However, you cannot use the chosen word and its forms at all. E.g. If the chosen word is “dog”, then the essay must be about dogs, without including the words “dog”, “dogged” or “dogging”. Synonyms however, are allowed (e.g. hound). 
Words:  “Ouch”  “Glass”  “Violet”  “Existence”
       d. Descriptive   
Entries are to be sent to essays.collage.iiserm@gmail.com