Jovanovich Imaginative Writing Awards Competition
The Creative Writing Program Announces the Spring 2008 Jovanovich Imaginative Writing Awards Competition. We will be accepting manuscripts Thursday, April 24th.
UP TO $500 IN AWARDS FOR UNDERGRADUATES:
Open to all English and Creative Writing majors in their junior or senior year, and all juniors and seniors in other disciplines who are enrolled in a creative writing course this semester, or who took one of these classes during the Fall 2007 semester. Students should submit ONE (only) of the following: three poems, one short story, as piece of creative non-fiction, or a segment of a stage or screenplay.
UP TO $2,000 IN AWARDS FOR THE BEST MANUSCRIPTS SUBMITTED BY A GRADUATE STUDENT:
Open to graduate students in the creative Writing Program. Students may submit poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, or a stage or screenplay. Maximum of 40 pages. The award may be split. The same manuscript cannot be submitted for the Best Manuscript category and the Ruth Murray Underhill Award.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Manuscripts must be typed.
- All submissions should be brought to Kat Scheible, English Student Services Office, Hellems 111
- An appropriate cover sheet (available in the English Students Services Office) should be completed.
- The first page of your manuscript should be identified by your student number only.
- You must also submit a separate detachable cover sheet with your name, student number, and title of your work.
THE RUTH MURRAY UNDERHILL AWARD
The Denver Woman’s Press Club will once again award the Ruth Murray Underhill Scholarship for the 2007-2008 academic year. This $1,000 award, established in 1985, is given to a female graduate student in the University of Colorado at Boulder Creative Writing Program. Eligible applicants are students making regular progress and returning the following academic year, since funds are applied directly to tuition. All manuscripts must be typed and submitted to Kat Scheible, English Student Services Office, Hellems 111. Please include a cover sheet with your name, student number, title of your work. The deadline for submissions is April 4, 2007.
THE EDWARD P. NOLAN FELLOWSHIP
The English Department is pleased to announce its annual competition for the Edward P. Nolan Fellowship. This fellowship was established in memory of the late Edward P. Nolan, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Colorado from 1966 to 1994. An award of up to $500 will be awarded on a competitive basis to a graduate student in English or Comparative Literature/Humanities to support innovative and outstanding scholarship and teaching. For example, awards can be made to support travel to research institutions or to conferences to read papers.INFORMATION REGARDING APPLICATION PROCEDURES WILL BE AVAILABLE FALL SEMESTER 2007.
THE HAROLD D. KELLING ESSAY PRIZE
Competition is now open for the 2008 Harold D. Kelling Prize, set up in 1979 as a fitting memorial to Professor Kelling, an excellent scholar, writer, and teacher. The prize will be $500. (Depending on the quality of the essays, a second prize may be awarded.)The deadline for submissions has been extended to Friday, April 25, 2008.
General Description: The prize will be awarded for the best essay (short stories, etc., are not eligible) submitted by an undergraduate currently enrolled on the Boulder campus. The essay must have been written for a University of Colorado at Boulder English Department class, but may have been written any time during the student's career at this university. Naturally, students are encouraged to revise their essays before they submit them. The essay should be clean, typed copy with no extraneous comments, marks, or grades on it. A cover sheet should include a title, the class and the teacher the paper was written for, and the student's address and telephone number. Essays should be submitted to the English Student Services Office, Hellems 111.
Criteria for the Essay: While the essay may be on any aspect of literature, it should help readers understand and appreciate literary works. The purely sequential explication of a single work and the brief impressionistic commentary should be avoided. Honors theses are not eligible for submission. Being directed toward the general educated reader, the essay should set forth a clear, detailed, and rational argument to support a sharply defined point or to fulfill an explicit purpose.
Award(s) will be announced at the English Department's Graduation Ceremony on May 9th.
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