2023 Graduate Student Awards
Barriss and Iola Mills Award for a single poem ...$300
Booth Tarkington Fiction Award for a short story ...$300
Flash Fiction or Prose Poem Award …$100
Original Play or Screenplay Award …$100
Paul Sidwell Memorial Award for a novel-in-progress (30-40 pages plus outline) ...$150
Purdue Federal Credit Union Creative Nonfiction Essay Award ...$200
Purdue Federal Credit Union Short Story Award ...$200
Tom Andrews Clapping Award for a sequence of five or more thematically related poems, or one long poem of at least five pages ...$200
LITERARY CRITICISM
Peter C. Braeger Memorial Award for an essay on Medieval Studies ...$150
R.W. Babcock Award for an essay on Shakespeare ...$150
Von's Book Shop Literary Criticism Award ...$100 gift certificate
INTERDISCIPLINARY AND CLA AWARDS
CLA Diversity Action Committee Award for creative writing work or essay addressing the significance of diversity in our society ...$100
Department of Anthropology Award for ethnographic essay ...$100
Disability Studies Award for an essay or creative writing exploring some aspect of disability studies ...$100
Environmental Studies and Nature Writing Award for an essay or creative writing exploring some aspect of environmentalism/nature ...$100
LGBTQ Studies Award for an essay or creative writing exploring some aspect of sexuality and gender studies ...$100
School of Languages and Cultures Award for Literary/Cultural Analysis of texts written in a language other than English ...$100
Science Studies/Science Fiction Award for an essay exploring the impact of science and technology on society and culture (including literature/film) ...$100
VPA Award for an essay analyzing some aspect of art history ...$100
KNEALE AWARDS
Kneale Award in Fiction ...$200 (first place) ...$100 (second place)
Kneale Award in Poetry ...$200 (first place) ...$100 (second place)
Kneale Award in Linguistics ...$200 (first place) ...$100 (second place)
Kneale Award in Literary Criticism ...$200 (first place) ...$100 (second place)
Kneale Award in Pedagogy ...$200 (first place) ...$100 (second place)
Kneale Award in Rhetoric and Composition (historical studies, contemporary theory, or empirical research) ...$200 (first place) ...$100 (second place)
Kneale Award in Second Language Studies/ESL ...$200 (first place) ...$100 (second place)
Kneale Award in Theory and Cultural Studies (includes film and visual studies) ...$200 (first place) ...$100 (second place)
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