Abstract
The Simon Fraser University Student Learning Commons holds an annual interdisciplinary, under-graduate writing contest. The writing contest provides an exciting opportunity to chal-lenge deficit frameworks within writing and academic success centres. Through the contest, the writing centre is empowered to actively seek out and showcase excellence in under-graduate writing. Throughout the five years of the contest, the organizers have tweaked the contest’s submission categories to reflect the needs and interests shared by students and faculty member, to ensure that thecontest supports the centre’s larger goals. This paper des-cribes the creation of the contest’s Plurilingual Prize category, emphasizing the ways that this prize advances the writing centre’s commitment to both linguistic diversity and linguistic justice. The paper also provides context for the decision to use the term plurilingual to describe this contest category, as opposed to other terms used in writing centre discussions, such as English Language Learner (ELL), English as an Additional Language (EAL), English as a Second Language (ESL), and multilingual learners.
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