Writing Award
The English Institute’s Critical Essay Award
This award will go to an essay from the Literature and Writing course that demonstrates outstanding writing in an introductory course. Instructors will nominate essays that are well-crafted and present clear, well-supported, and original arguments. The essays must meet the requirements of their respective assignments but should be readable without reference to the initial prompt.
Instructors may nominate as many essays as fit the criteria but are limited to nominating one essay per student. The final essay will be selected by the Literature and Writing faculty and will be announced at the end of fall term.
The English Institute’s Short Fiction Award
The English Institute’s Poetry Award
The departmental creative writing awards will accept submissions from currently enrolled English Institute students from October 1st until November 15th. Students may submit at most one entry per award.
All submissions must be original, unpublished work written in English. Entries may be written in any style. Students may submit work that was written for a course or that was written independently.
Submission guidelines:
Fiction
— One short story of up to 1250 words
— The manuscript must be double-spaced and typed in Times New Roman 11 or 12-pt. font
— The manuscript must include a title and page numbers
Poetry
— One poem of up to 50 lines
— The manuscript must be typed in Times New Roman 11 or 12-pt. font
— The manuscript must include a title (and page numbers if the poem is longer than a page)
Note: You may not submit the same piece to both awards (for example in the case of a prose poem). You should choose a category.
- The student’s name should not appear anywhere in the manuscript to maintain anonymity.
- Entries should be uploaded as a .doc, .docx, .rtf, or .pdf file.
- Please name the file with the award category and keywords from the title, for example: Poetry_One Art or Fiction_Frankenstein.
- Entries that do not meet the submission guidelines will not be considered.
You can submit your entry or entries via this form when the submission window is open.
We will announce the Creative Writing Prize winners at the end of the fall term.
