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c new critics competition

Submission deadline April 19, 2013

The C New Critics Competition is designed to help develop and promote the work of emerging art critics. Writers are asked to submit a review of an exhibition, performance, or site-specific intervention of between 800 and 1,000 words in length, by Friday April 19, 2013.

The jury for the 2013 competition includes Sarah Fillmore, Chief Curator at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Amish Morrell, Editor of C Magazine and Kathleen Ritter, an artist and writer currently based in Paris.

The winner will receive $500, editorial support in order to prepare their article for publication in C Magazine, and a two-year subscription to C.

Participants are not restricted by age or citizenship. To be eligible, writers must have published no more than two exhibition reviews or one article in a magazine or journal. Writers are not disqualified for having written for personal blogs or student publications. One submission is allowed per person and must be sent as an email attachment, in MS Word to . Mail or fax submissions will not be accepted.

2012 Competition Results

Ebony Haynes
Review of Yuji Agematsu at Real Fine Arts, Brooklyn.
Published in C Magazine issue 116 (Winter 2012/13)

Ebony Haynes is an emerging curator and art writer based in Brooklyn, New York.

C Magazine would like to thank all those who submitted their writing to the competition, as well as members of the awards jury: Dan Adler, Assistant Professor of Modern Art at York University in Toronto, and a regular contributor to Artforum, Border Crossings, and Frieze; Michelle Kasprzak, writer and Curator at V2_Institute for Unstable Media in Rotterdam and co-curator of the upcoming ZERO1 Biennial in San Jose, California; and Amish Morrell, editor of C Magazine.