Are you a Writer?
An Artist?
Submit your original artwork or
creative writing piece between
September 1 and December.
Winning entries will be published.
Contact Nancy Alderton in the
Oshkosh Correctional Institution Education Department for more information
Nancy.Alderton@wisconsin.gov

(Click here to view 2018
Soul Etchings)
Click on the link for the Creativity
Contest Rules
and Submission
Release Form
Each year, CEA-Wisconsin invites incarcerated writers and
artists to submit their works for the annual edition of the CEA-Wisconsin
Creativity Contest booklet. CEA-Wisconsin publishes original prose, poetry, and
ink drawings from Wisconsin’s jail, prison, and juvenile facility populations.
All levels of writers and artists are encouraged to offer submissions. Authors
and artists whose works are selected will each receive two free copies of the
booklet when it is published in May.
Encourage your learners to express themselves in drawings
(black ink on 8½ by 11 white paper) and writings up to 1000 words including
poems, letters, essays, and short stories. Winners are selected from all levels,
so urge beginning writers to give it a try. Submissions are accepted between
September 1 and December 1. Please ask entrants to read the contest rules and
legibly fill out the submission form. Entries can be sent to Nancy Alderton at
the Oshkosh
Correctional Institution address on
the submission form.
Members of
the Creativity Contest Committee are:
Nancy
Alderton, OSCI – nancy.alderton@wisconsin.gov
Margaret Done, MSDF – margaret.done@wisconsin.gov
Vicky Ebben-Svitavsky, WCI – victoria.ebbensvitavsky@wisconsin.gov
Jim Gordon, KMCI – james.gordon@wisconsin.gov
Laurie Jarvis, FVTC – jarvis@fvtc.edu
Rose Krutzik, FLCI – rose.krutzik@wisconsin.gov
Tim Mahoney, WRC – timothy.mahoney@dhs.wisconsin.gov
Steve Schmick, OSCI – steven.schmick@wisconsin.gov
Jim Svitavsky, WCI – james.svitavsky@wisconsin.gov
The booklets are typeset by inmates at Oshkosh Correctional
Institution and printed by inmates at Columbia Correctional Institution. This
publication reflects the professional commitment of CEA-Wisconsin members to
promote literacy. Each person who is a CEA-Wisconsin member as of January 1 gets
a free copy of the booklet.
If you want to join the
CEA-Wisconsin Creativity Contest committee, contact Nancy Alderton at nancy.alderton@wisconsin.gov.
Committee members’ duties include meeting as a group to review and select the
writings and artwork for publication.