Award Opportunities

Spring 2009 Prizes

Entry Rules:

  • No more than 2 entries per prize per student.
  • No one piece of work may be entered in more than 2 contests.
  • Please turn in manuscripts to the English department office, 
    111 Shattuck Hall by 4 pm Thursday, April 30, 2009.

Submission Prizes

  • Virginia Lee Barnes Prize
     For the best critical essay by a senior in English, American Studies, Medieval Studies
     
  • Barbara Benson '33 Memorial Award
     For prose or other pieces in fiction, essay, or any prose form
    Open to juniors and seniors; awarded every other year; next offered 2011
     
  • Gertrude Claytor Award of The Academy of American Poets
    For the best poem or group of poems, open to all undergraduates
     
  • Minnie Ryan Dwight Prize
    For excellence in journalistic writing, open to all undergraduates
      
  • Kathryn McFarland Memorial Prize
    For any form of creative writing, open to all undergraduates
     
  • Sydney Robertson McLean Short Story Prize
    Open to all undergraduates
     
  • Anne Singer '69 Memorial Award
     To a student who shows both the promise of a gift for writing and a dedication to craftsmanship, preference to first years, sophomores, and juniors
     
  • Ada L. F. Snell Poetry Prize
     For the best poem or group of poems, the whole not to exceed fifty lines, open to all undergraduates

Fellowship and Research Funds

  • Graduate and Joseph Bottkol Fellowship
     To support graduate study in English.
    Awarded every other year; next offered in 2011.
    Please pick up application form in the English Department office, 111 Shattuck Hall. 
  • Naomi Kitay Fellowship
     Awarded on basis of merit, as an aid toward a career in creative prose writing. Please pick up application form in English Department office, 111 Shattuck Hall.  
  • Phyllis Merrill '30 and Virginia Merrill Lafferty '37 Research Fund
    To be used for student research to purchase research material or to travel to a research library to complete her project. Based on merit of project and good academic standing. Please see Administrative Assistant for application details.  
  • Jean Sudrann '39 Research Fund
    To support student research in the Department of English, travel grants for research or special projects. Open to all students; not limited to English majors. Please see Administrative Assistant for application details.