The AddRan Festival of Undergraduate Scholarship & Creativity

Mark your calendars! The AddRan Festival of Undergraduate Scholarship & Creativity is back in-person this April!! We encourage you to submit your creative student work for presentation. The atmosphere is designed to mirror a professional academic conference with a very supportive, and intellectually curious, setting.

There are three main categories of works.

• a) (Traditional) Oral Presentation followed by a question and answer period
• b) Creative Writing Presentation: Present your poetry or prose
• c) Paper Contest: Submit your original, individual, paper from a class (this semester or previous)

In addition, a work in any of the above categories may also be submitted as part of the Middle East Studies Contest.

Speaking of contests, there are multiple cash prizes in each of the categories. The amount of planned prize money is nearly double what it was in prior AddRan Festivals.

Below are more details about the Festival.

Festival Dates: Wed, April 6th through Fri, April 8th

• Day 1 (April 6th): Creative writing and oral presentation sessions
• Day 2 (April 7th): Creative writing and oral presentation sessions contd.
• Day 3 (April 8th): Winners announced by noon

Award ceremony and keynote speech late afternoon

Submission: https://addran.tcu.edu/addran-festival/index.php

• Submit your presentation proposals or completed papers to the festival website shown above
• Proposals are due by Fri, 04 Mar at 11:59 pm.

Format: We’re live this year!

Papers

• Papers are judged by a faculty panel.
• You do not have to present your paper if you choose this format.
• You may, however, also submit a proposal to present your paper findings in a traditional presentation
• Presentations, both Traditional & Creative Writing:
• Presentations will be organized into roughly 90 minutes sessions
• Each session will include about 4 student presenters with similar topic interests
• Each student presenter will have about 15-20 minutes for their presentation
• Faculty chairs and other students will provide friendly questions and commentary

All in all

It’s a great way to share your work and interests in a friendly, supportive, environment!