Open to UW English Majors Only
(Application deadline for these awards is March 1, 2013, unless otherwise indicated.)
Undergraduate
$4,000
Awarded toward tuition to the most promising sophomore or junior applicant
who combines freshness and significance of idea with bold reaches into original
and imaginative use of form and language; shows evidence of having produced
a significant body of creative writing; has an academic grade point minimum
of 3.0; and evidences greatest financial need among otherwise comparable applicants.
Submission should include one or two short stories, or a novel excerpt of not
more than 30 pages. Application
form required.
Undergraduate, $1,000 first prize/$300 runner-up
Awarded to a
sophomore or junior English major. Submit one or two short stories or a
novel excerpt. The Deadline for this award is April 2, 2013,
although early submission is recommended.
Undergraduate/Graduate
$3,000
Submission of short fiction should be 3 stories of moderate length, or long
fiction (novel) excerpts not to exceed 8000 words (also include a brief synopsis
of what is planned to precede or follow this excerpt.) Author's name should
not appear on the fiction (see instructions for anonymous submissions below).
This award can be split.
Graduate, fiction $1000
Open to all MFA prose students completing their degrees. A faculty
committee
will choose finalists, and David Guterson will choose the winner. Notify
Judy LeRoux in Creative Writing if you'd like to be considered for this
award. Finalists will be asked to submit a copy of their MFA theses. Deadline:
May 16, 2013.
Graduate, poetry $1,000
This fellowship will be applied toward tuition to an MFA student in poetry
whose work demonstrates talent and promise in creative writing, and also
best exemplifies Nelson Bentley's personal philosophy of writing: "to
emphasize knowledge of literature and history that forms its context, love
of forms, humor, spontaneity, the necessary polarity of experiment and tradition,
a fanatical dedication and a light spirit. Inseparables include the mesh
of meaning and technique...stressing the sound of language, its performance,
as a part of the knowledge of form." Submissions should number 5-10
poems. Author's name should not appear on the poems.
Undergrad./Grad. $650
each
Prizes are given for the best long poem (100 lines or more) or a sequence
or collection of poems (10 poems or more). Students will not be eligible
to enter
the competition after having won two prizes. Masters' theses may be submitted
for this award. There is one $650 award for an undergraduate student and
one $650 award for a graduate student.
Undergraduate $1,000
Any undergraduate enrolled in a beginning or intermediate verse writing course
during the current academic year is eligible. Students may submit as many
poems as they wish, the number of lines totaling no more than 150.
Undergrad./Grad.
$100
This prize is awarded for the best poem or group of poems by a student. Submit
up to three poems. Author's name should not appear on the poems (see instructions
for anonymous submissions below).
Graduate, poetry $500
Open to all UW MFA students, including those who have completed coursework
but are finishing their degrees. Students should submit 3 poems. Author's
name should not appear on the poems. (Include a cover sheet listing your
name and the titles of poems submitted.)
Undergrad./Grad., poetry & fiction $12,000
Applicant is to be currently
enrolled, having completed two years of college undergraduate work or not
more than one year of graduate school. Award is based on talent in creative
writing,
academic standing, and between applicants of equal rank in the foregoing
criteria, financial need. After a faculty committee chooses finalists,
the winner
is selected by the donor of the scholarship. The donor is
particularly interested in submissions that do not include sex, violence
and/or profanity. (Recipient of this award must be registered full-time
for the academic year to receive funding.) Application
form required.
Undergrad./Grad. CENTRUM
Open to student poets and fiction writers. Made jointly with
the Centrum Foundation, this award covers tuition, room and board for one
week at the Centrum Summer Writers Workshop. The workshop is held each
summer (usually mid-July)
in Port Townsend. Students
must have completed one or more creative writing courses. This award will
be made on the basis of a writing submission of 10 to 15 pages of verse,
or one or two short stories, or a novel excerpt of not more than 30 pages
(also provide a brief biographical statement). Deadline:
November 1, 2012. Click here for
instructions.
Submissions should include the following material:
1) Two separated, collated & clipped copies of your cover sheet, biography, & poetry or fiction samples (length describe above). On your cover sheet clearly indicate which award the submission is for and include your name, address, phone number, and e-mail address (i.e., a packet for each contest reader).
2) **FOUR COPIES including application form for the Milliman & two copies & application form for the Draham. (Application forms for the Milliman and Draham Scholarships are also available in the Creative Writing Office or email jleroux@u.washington.edu to have a copy sent by email.)
3) A cover sheet is fine for awards that do not have a formal application
form. Names may appear on the manuscript; however, names
should not appear
on submissions for the Academy of American Poets Prize, the Nelson Bentley
Fellowship, the
Eugene Van Buren award and the McLeod-Grobe.
4) For all awards, include a brief, personal (biographical) statement. A
paragraph or two is fine, but not more than one page. (Include bios with
each submission copy.)
Submit manuscripts to the Creative Writing Office, Padelford Hall B-25. Office hours are 9-4 Monday-Friday. Deadline: March 1, 2013 unless otherwise indicated in the description.
Winners will be notified by the end of Spring Quarter. Winning names will
be posted after all contests have been finalized.
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For more information, please contact Judy LeRoux (Padelford B-25, jleroux@u.washington.edu, 543-9865).
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