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
   
• Richard Johnson Prize
  For a student or alumna who plans a career as a secondary-school teacher
   
• 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.