Contests

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Current Contests

Contest / Eligibility Deadline Category
The Ina Coolbrith Memorial Poetry Prize Dec. 2023 TBD Poetry

Undergraduates from selected California Universities.

You may submit the same poems to the Pamela Maus Contest. See earlier deadline date.

The Pamela Maus Contest in Creative Writing 05/05/23 @ 12:00pm 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.

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

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.