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Rules for submission

2008 Literary Awards
Rules for Submitting University Entries

(for the high-school competition click the link on the left)
Deadline for entires is 5:00 p.m. on February 15, 2008.  Late entries will not be accepted. 

  1. Each entry must state clearly at the top of the first page the category and classification of the award for which it has been entered. Examples: "Poetry/Bain-Swiggett (U)" or "Literary Criticism/R. W. Babcock (U/G)" or "Kneale Awards/Informal Essay." (THE AUTHOR'S NAME MUST NOT APPEAR ON THIS PAGE!)
  2. The title of the work, your name, PUID number, campus or local address, local phone, email address, permanent address, and student classification (undergraduate or graduate) must be included in a sealed privacy envelope stapled to the back of the last page.
  3. All entries must be typewritten or computer printed on 8-1/2" by 11" paper (journalism clips OK; black-out name). Please double-space prose and single-space poetry.
  4. Only students registered for the 2007-08 academic year at Purdue University and its regional campuses (Calumet, Fort Wayne, and North Central) or at Indiana University/Purdue University at Indianapolis are eligible. Students registered for only one semester of the 2007-08 academic year (either fall or spring semesters) at any of these institutions are also eligible.
  5. Work that has been previously published is not eligible for submission (except for journalism).
  6. Entries should be hand-delivered to:
         Department of English Main Office
         Room 324, Heavilon Hall

    or mailed to:
         Literary Awards Contest
         Purdue University
         Department of English
         Room 324, Heavilon Hall
         500 Oval Drive
         West Lafayette, IN 47907-2038

    Deadline for entires is 5:00 p.m. on February 15, 2008. 
  7. Entries that do not conform to these guidelines will not be accepted.
  8. Entries will not be returned.
  9. You may submit up to three entries for each category, but you may not submit an entry to more than one contest category. For example: You may submit up to three poems to the Bain-Swiggett (U) competition, and you may submit up to three poems to the Barriss and Iola Mills (U/G) competition, but you may not submit the same poems to both competitions.
  10. Any work that has previously won a Literary Awards prize is ineligible. Students are welcome to submit non-winning entries from previous competitions.

Prizes will be awarded at the Literary-Awards Banquet on Tuesday, April 15, 2008,
5:30 p.m., Purdue Memorial Union, North Ballroom
Guest speaker: Pulitzer Prize winning fiction writer Michael Chabon

Any questions should be addressed to

Professor Bich Minh Nguyen
Chair, Literary Awards Committee
Purdue University
Department of English
500 Oval Drive
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2038
(765) 494-3740 or nguyenb@purdue.edu

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The Literary Awards Contest is sponsored by the Purdue University Department of English, Purdue University Libraries, and the College of Liberal Arts.

Purdue University is an Equal Access/Equal Opportunity University