Annual Prizes in English

This year the Marius Bewley Prize, the Catherine Musello Cantalupo Prize, the Catherine Moynahan Prize, and the Spencer L. Eddy Prize will be awarded at the Graduate Symposium on Thursday, April 17, 2008.  If you wish to submit papers to any of these contests, please give them to Cheryl Robinson by MONDAY, MARCH 17th. 

In contrast to the papers submitted for reading at the Symposium, papers for the prizes below need not be revised for length. Your name should not appear on any page, since judges are not to know the names of contestants. Please prepare a cover sheet for Cheryl Robinson listing your name, the title of the submission, the prize for which the paper should be considered, and any further information requested below. Papers will be read by faculty committees. Students may submit the same paper for more than one prize (please prepare separate cover sheets), but they may submit only one paper for each prize.

The Call for Papers for the contest for papers to be presented at the Symposium will be circulated soon. This contest also carries cash prizes for each paper.

Marius Bewley Prize: $200 for the best essay written in course work at Rutgers. Papers must be submitted no later than a year after the course (2005-2006 academic year papers are not eligible). Note course number and semester on the cover sheet.

Catherine Musello Cantalupo Prize: $500 for the best essay about some aspect of the relationship between literature and religion.

Spencer L. Eddy Prize: $100 for the best literary essay accepted for publication in a general or professional journal. Indicate on the cover sheet the journal and the date of publication.

Catherine Moynahan Prize: $1,000 for an essay of merit on a literary topic.