Please note below the various awards available for the Spring 2008 semester through the Department of English.  Should you wish to apply, please take note of the various deadlines and varying conditions of eligibility.  Entrants need not be English majors.

Academy of American Poets 2008 Enid Dame Memorial Poetry Prize. 

This prestigious national organization is the “largest dedicated to the art of poetry.”  “The Academy publishes prize-winning poems, and a plan is underway for an annual supplement focusing on the prizes.” Open to all undergraduate students. $100 prize for best poem(s).  Maximum of five poems may be submitted.  Deadline: March 24, 2008

The Mitchell Adelman Memorial Scholarship for Creative Writing.

Open to students enrolled in school 01 (School of Arts and Sciences), school 02 (Livingston), school 06 (Douglass), school 12 (Rutgers College), or school 61 (University College).  Students must currently be of sophomore, junior, or senior status, with a cumulative GPA of 3.000 at the end of the Fall 2007 semester.  Either a single work of short fiction or a group of poems (no less than three and no more than five) may be submitted. Send submissions to Muffin Lord, Scholarship Administrator, SAS Scholarship Office, 35 College Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1164.  Deadline: January 25, 2008.

Toni Cade Bambara Prize in African American Literature.

Will be awarded annually to an English major in the junior year, who has done outstanding work in two or more African American literature courses and who has an overall GPA of 3.0 or above.  Along with a paper written to fulfill a course assignment, applicants are required to submit a brief personal statement describing how their work in and out of class exemplifies ideals associated with Toni Cade Bambara.  Deadline: March 24, 2008

Irving D. Blum Prize.  For the best essay submitted for a regular course assignment.  Essays may be in original form or revised but should be retyped and free of instructor's marks and comments.  The essay must be submitted through the instructor for whom it was originally written. 

Deadline:  March 24, 2008

Julia Carley Prize. Open only to Douglass Residential College students.  Prize for original poetry. Deadline: March 24, 2008.

Jamima Dingus Qualls Prize.

Prize for the best undergraduate essay on women writers or feminist issues in English or American Literature.  Deadline: March 24, 2008.

James Suydam Prize in English Composition.  Open only to seniors. For the best essay on a topic of the writer's choice of contemporary social, political, educational significance.  Minimum length 5 pages.  Deadline:  March 24, 2008

Evelyn Hamilton Award in Creative Writing.  For the best original story, essay, or group of three or more poems.  Entries may have been written for a course or independently for this contest.  Notes and/or drafts of the work should accompany the final entry.  Deadline:  March 24, 2008.

Ernest W. Thomas Memorial Prize for Interpretation of Shakespearean Works.  Open only to Douglass Residential College Students.  For the best paper submitted for a regular course assignment concerning Shakespeare's works.  Deadline: March 24, 2008

Edna N. Herzberg Prizes.  Open only to Douglass Ressidential College students.  Prizes will be awarded  for an essay, for fiction, and for poetry.  Deadline: March 24, 2008

Jordan Lee Flyer Honors Award.  Open only to students participating in the department's Senior Honors Tutorial.  For an honors student whose work demonstrates outstanding promise and achievement in the study of language and literature.  The recipient of the award will be chosen by the departmental Honors Committee.

Recipients of the creative writing prizes will be invited to read from their work at our annual Honors Symposium, scheduled for April 18, 2008. 

The winner of the Jordan Flyer Award will be announced at the reception for all Honors students and prize winners, which will follow the symposium.

The English department reserves the right not to give a prize or award if no entries are judged to be of sufficiently high quality.

Please proofread your submissions carefully and include your name, e-mail address, campus address, student ID number, and phone number.

With the exception of the Mitchell Adelman award, all submissions should be brought to Murray Hall Room 104 or 106.