Deadline for submission is NOON on April 22, 2015
- Please use a cover sheet to indicate your name, your entry titles, and the prizes for which you would like your work considered.
- Drop off your submissions in 201 Sanborn (the Shakespeare Room) any time before the deadline.
- Fiction and creative nonfiction submissions are limited to one short story, or one nonfiction piece, or one chapter of a book length manuscript not to exceed 20 double-space typewritten pages along with a one-page synopsis of the book.
- This writing contest is open to all Dartmouth undergraduate student
Meg Kearney is this year's prize judge http://www.MegKearney.com
CREATIVE WRITING PRIZES FOR UNDERGRADUATES
The Sidney Cox Memorial Prize: The Sidney Cox Memorial Prize is offered annually for that piece of undergraduate writing which most nearly meets those high standards of originality and integrity which Sidney Cox set for himself and for his students in his teaching and in his book, Indirections for Those Who Want to Write. Any kind of undergraduate writing in English may be submitted; there is no limit to the amount or variety of the material that any individual may submit; and the award is not limited to students majoring or minoring in English.
Academy of American Poets Prize: The Academy of American Poets Prize is offered for the best poem or group of poems submitted to the English/Creative Writing Department.
Jacobson-Laing Award in Poetry: The Alexander Laing Memorial Writing Award will be given to an undergraduate for the "best manuscript of original poems."
Lockwood Prize: Competition for the Lockwood Prize is open to undergraduates classified as Junior. Any form of writing except plays may be submitted. A group of short poems may be considered as one manuscript.
Ralston Prize: The Thomas Henry Ralston VI English 80 Prize is for the most outstanding student in English 80.
Grimes Prize: Competition for the Grimes Prize is open to undergraduates classified as Senior. Any form of writing except plays may be submitted. A group of short poems may be considered as one manuscript.
The William C. Spengemann Award in Writing: The William C. Spengemann Award in Writing is given for a work of prose or poetry distinguished by its formal precision, as well as its original, innovative, or iconoclastic approach to its subject matter.
The Mecklin Prize: The Mecklin Prize is for the best student writing in creative nonfiction or journalism.
The Erskine Caldwell Prize: The Erskine Caldwell prize is awarded to students whose written work in the short story is most outstanding.