Submit to the 2023 Creative Writing Prizes!

The Department of English and Creative Writing invites Dartmouth undergraduate students to submit to the 2023 Creative Writing Prizes. Each spring, the department awards prizes for undergraduate writing in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. The deadline to submit is Monday, March 27, 2023, at 4 p.m. ET. For more information about prizes and submission instructions, visit dartgo.org/cw-prizes. Email english.department@dartmouth.edu with questions.

This year's judge is JoAnn Wypijewski. JoAnn Wypijewski is a writer and editor based in New York. She is the author of an essay collection, What We Don't Talk About: Sex and the Mess of Life (2020/21). Her other books include Killing Trayvons: An Anthology of American Violence (2014, co-edited with Kevin Alexander Gray and Jeffrey St. Clair); Painting by Numbers: Komar and Melamid's Scientific Guide to Art (1997), hailed as "a wonderfully tricky work of art" by The New York Times; and the collected work of Andrew Kopkind, The Thirty Years' Wars: Dispatches and Diversions of a Radical Journalist, 1965-1994 (1995). Book manuscripts that she edited include an elegiac memoir, A World I Loved: The Story of an Arab Woman (2009), by Wadad Makdisi Cortas; and a sweeping narrative history, Frank Bardacke's Trampling Out the Vintage: Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers (2012), called "the Moby Dick of labor histories" when it received the Hillman Book Prize. Most recently she contributed the foreword to Zapatista Stories for Dreaming An-Other World (2022), the Colectivo Relámpago's English translation of allegorical tales by Subcomandante Marcos. She is currently resuming work on a book for Farrar Straus titled Valiant, journeys through America in a time of crack-up.

Her writing has appeared in numerous magazines, including The Nation, where she was an editor from 1982-2000. She has received a number of honors for her writing, has collaborated with photographers and documentary filmmakers in the US and the UK, and is on the editorial committee of New Left Review. In 1998 she co-founded, with John Scagliotti (a pioneer in lgbt media) the Kopkind Colony, a summer seminar/retreat project in Vermont for writers, activists and documentary filmmakers. From 2015 to 2017 she held the honorary chair of Belle Zeller Visiting Professor in Political Science at Brooklyn College, where she taught classes on the art of political writing (involving genres from propaganda to poetry) and on media and the politics of fear.