2009 Literary Awards

CREATIVE WRITING - Poetry
Bain-Swiggett Award for a single poem, any kind (U)...$125

Barriss and Iola Mills Award for a single poem (U/G)...$500

Follett's College Stores Award for a single poem, any kind (G)...$125 gift certificate

Polymnia Award for sequence of 3-7 poems on a related topic (U)...$125

Student English Association Award for a single prose poem (U)...$50

Tom Andrews Clapping Award for a sequence of five or more thematically related poems, or one long poem of at least five pages (G)... $150

CREATIVE WRITING - Prose
Coldwell Banker Shook/Junius Group Award for a short story or novel excerpt (G)...$300

Margaret Church Memorial Award for a short story (U)...$150; (G)...$150

Paul Sidwell Memorial Award for a novel-in-progress (30-40 pages plus outline) (U/G)...$100

Purdue Employees Federal Credit Union Award for a Short Story (U/G)...$200

Purdue Employees Federal Credit Union Award for a Creative Nonfiction essay (U/G)...$200

University Book Store Award for a short story (U)...$100 gift certificate 

DRAMA
Brian Mexicott Award for an original play (U/G)...$50

SCREENPLAY
Communication Department Award for an original screenplay (U/G)...$50

KNEALE AWARDS
Undergraduate essays in the following categories:

Best set of three projects originally written for English 106 or 108 (may be submitted on CD, in print or on other physical media)
Bible as Literature
Creative Nonfiction/Informal Essay
Cultural Criticism
Developing Nations Literature
Film Criticism
Gender
History
Journalism
Linguistics
Literary Criticism
Shakespeare

Graduate entries in the following categories:

Fiction
Poetry
Linguistics
Literary Criticism
Pedagogy

For each Kneale Award category:   First Prize: $200    Second Prize: $100

EXPOSITORY AND CRITICAL WRITING
African, African American or Black Literature: Helen Bass Williams Award for critical essay (U)...$50

American Studies: Leonora Woodman Award for essay on women’s literature (U)...$100

Asian Studies Award for essay, fiction, or poem focusing on Asia (U/G)...$50

CLA Diversity Action Committee Award for best creative writing work, essay, or multi-media writing addressing the historical significance of diversity in our society (U/G)...$200

Department of Anthropology Award for an ethnographic essay (U/G)...$100

English as a Second Language: Walter J. Johnson Award (G)...$100 

Foreign Languages & Literatures Award for Literary Analysis (U)...$100; (G)...$100

Foreign Languages & Literatures Award for Cultural Analysis (G)...$100

Journalism (news or feature story): Merrill & Marjorie Swedlund Memorial Award (U)...$75

Krannert School of Management Award for business-related report or set of 3-4 short documents (U)...$100

Literary Criticism: R.W. Babcock Award for essay on Shakespeare (U/G)...$200 (1st) ...$100 (2nd)

Literary Criticism: Von’s Book Shop Award (G)...$100 gift certificate

Medieval Studies: Peter C. Braeger Memorial Award for an essay on Middle Ages (U)...$100 (G)...$100

Multimedia Writing (may be submitted on CD, DVD, in print or on other physical media): Parlor Press Award for multimedia writing (U/G)...$100

Philosophy: Eric L. Clitheroe Award for essay in any field of philosophy (U)...$200 (1st) ...$100 (2nd)

Rhetoric and Composition (historical studies, contemporary theory, or empirical research): Grace L.  Smart Award for best graduate paper on rhetoric and composition (G)...$100

Technical Writing: Hugh McKee Memorial Award for technical writing (U)...$150

SPECIAL AWARDS
The following special awards will be given to outstanding entries submitted in the above categories:

Phi Beta Kappa Award for Best Graduate Entry...$200
Phi Beta Kappa Award for Best Undergraduate Entry...$200
Phi Beta Kappa Award for Best High School Entry...$200
 
Budd & Betty Knoll Award for Best Entry of the 78th Annual Literary Awards
  Contest (U/G)...$750
 

Gift certificates are redeemable only for books and only for items in stock.
The Sycamore Review will present a one-year gift subscription to every Literary Awards prize-winner.

Note:
G = Graduate students eligible
U = Undergraduate students eligible
U/G = All students eligible