Contests
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Current Contests
| Contest / Eligibility | Deadline | Category | ||
| The Ina Coolbrith Memorial Poetry Prize | Dec. 2023 TBD | Poetry | ||
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Undergraduates from selected California Universities. You may submit the same poems to the Pamela Maus Contest. See earlier deadline date. |
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| The Pamela Maus Contest in Creative Writing | 05/05/23 @ 12:00pm | Fiction & Poetry | ||
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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 | 04/28/23 @ 12:00pm | Fiction | ||
| UCD Undergraduates and full time registered student at the time of the award. | ||||
| English Department Essay Prize | 05/01/23 @ 12:00pm | Essays | ||
| UCD Undergraduates enrolled in an upper division English Literature course. | ||||
| Peter Hays Writing Prize | 06/15/23 @ 12:00pm | 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 | 04/28/23 @ 12:00pm | Poetry | ||
| UCD Undergraduates or Graduates and full time registered student at the time of the award. | ||||
| Deirdre Hackett Endowment for Graduate and Undergraduate Experiential Learning | 04/10/23 | |||
| UCD Undergraduates or Graduates and full time registered student at the time of the award. | ||||
| Professor Jack Hicks Award in English | 04/10/23 | |||
| 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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