Prizes

• *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 Creative Writing Prize is for the most outstanding student in an introductory creative writing class, ENGL 80, 81, 82, in any genre (fiction, creative non-fiction, and poetry).

• 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.        

These prizes are by faculty nomination, voted on by the entire faculty at the end of the academic year.

• The Feinstein Prize
  • This prize is awarded to the student in the English Honors Program whose honors thesis and overall work demonstrate the most effective exploration of feelings through language.
• The Hochman Prize
  • This prize is awarded yearly to a graduating senior who majored in English and who demonstrated by his or her course work both academic excellence and particular dedication to the field of American literature.
• The Perkins Prize
  • This prize is awarded to that undergraduate Dartmouth student who shall show the most promise in Greek, or in Latin, or in English literature

Critical Prize Awards

Arthur Feinstein 1955 Memorial English Honors Award:
Margaret Lacey Jones '16

B. William Hochman 1955 Memorial Prize in American Literature:
Ellen Baker '16
Katherine R. McKay '16

Edwin R. Perkins Literature Prize:
Sarah Waltcher '16
Margaret Lacey Jones '16

The Stanley Prize in English:
Alice Wang '16
Sarah A. Waltcher '16
Margaret Lacey Jones '16
Sara J. Holston '17
Brownwyn A. Lloyd '17
Margaret Lacey Jones '16

Creative Writing Prize Awards

Sidney Cox Memorial Prize:

Queenie Sukhadia '16
Gabrielle Pacia '16
Georgianna Anderson '16

Academy of American Poets Prize:
Kelsey Sipple '16

Jacobson-Laing Award in Poetry:
Margaret Lacey Jones '16

Lockwood English Prize:
Treeman Baker '17

Grimes English Prize:
Charlotte Gross '16
Robbie Herbst '16

The William C. Spengemann Award in Writing:
William Peters '16

The Mecklin Prize in Creative Nonfiction:
Max Gibson '16

The Erskine Caldwell Memorial Prize:
Cherrie Kandie '18
James Sachar '16

The Thomas Henry Ralston IV English 80 Prize:
Ho Chun Herbert Chang '18