Contests
**Contest entry forms are online links (click on below). Detailed contest flyers can be found in the hallway forms area, adjacent to 176 Voorhies.**
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Contest / Eligibility | Deadline | Category |
The Ina Coolbrith Memorial Poetry Prize | CANCELED | Poetry |
Undergraduates from selected California Universities. You may submit the same poems to the Pamela Maus Contest. See earlier deadline date. The Coolbirth multi-campus poetry prize contest has been canceled for the 2020 year. The contest will return in 2021. |
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The Pamela Maus Contest in Creative Writing | 05/07/21 by 12:00 noon | Fiction & Poetry |
UCD Undergraduates with declared majors in English or Comparative Literature. You may submit the same poems to the Ina Coolbrith Memorial Poetry Prize. |
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Diana Lynn Bogart Fiction Contest | 04/30/21 by 12:00 noon | Fiction |
UCD Undergraduates and full time registered student at the time of the award. | ||
English Department Essay Prize | 04/26/21 by 12:00 noon | Essays |
UCD Undergraduates enrolled in an upper division English Literature course. | ||
Peter Hays Writing Prize | 3/19/2021 by 12:00 noon | Essays |
The prize will be given for the best paper written for or related to the content in a First-year Seminar class (FRS) | ||
Celeste Turner Wright Poetry Contest | 04/30/21 by 12:00 noon | Poetry |
UCD Undergraduates or Graduates and full time registered student at the time of the award. | ||
Graduate Contests |
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Elliot Gilbert English Graduate Award | TBA | Fiction & Poetry |
Current English Department creative writing graduate students. | ||
David Noel Miller Scholarship | End of Oct. | Essay |
English Department graduate students see Aaron Barstow in 161 Voorhies Hall | ||
Maurice Prize in Fiction | Novel | |
Alumni of the English Department's Creative Writing graduate program.
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