KELLOGG WRITING AWARDS (DEADLINE APRIL 11)

PSU Department of English

Kellogg Writing Awards

PSU students are invited to submit works of poetry and prose to the annual writing contests. In addition to formal recognition of outstanding work, the awards provide various cash prizes. Students compete by submitting their own work (note the parameters below) or through nomination by teaching faculty. Any such work completed since the deadline for the previous year's awards is eligible. All submissions should be "blind"--that is, the writer's name should not appear on any page of the manuscript--and should be a clean copy without instructor comments. Please not that submissions are not returnable.

Deadline: April 11 @ 5 p.m. All submissions must be accompanied by an Awards cover sheet and submitted to the Eng Dept office in NH 405. (Forms are available outside NH 405.)

The 44th annual Nina Mae Kellogg Award Ceremony will be held May 23.

DEPARTMENT AWARDS:

The John Redman Freshman Writing Award
Awarded for a piece of writing completed as a regular course assignment by a PSU freshman student.

The Tom and Phyllis Burnam Awards
Recognizes the best work written by students in the following areas: Undergraduate Fiction; Undergraduate Poetry; Undergraduate Nonfiction; Graduate Fiction; Graduate Poetry; Graduate Nonfiction.

The Frank Andrew Clarke and Helen Clarke Memorial Award
Awarded to an undergraduate for a work of excellence submitted as a regular course assignment.

The Academy of American Poets Award
Presented for the best poem or group of poems submitted by a student. Winning poems may be selected for publication by the Academy.

The Wilma Morrison Award
Presented by the University Publications Board for outstanding writing in The Vanguard student newspaper.

The Phyllis and Tom Burnam Creative Writing Endowed Scholarship
This fund provides annual student support, in the form of awards, scholarships or fellowships, to English department undergraduate and/or graduate students. Awards shall be made in recognition of the best fiction, nonfiction, and poetry writing done by a student or students who have enrolled in any writing class taught by a member of the English department during the course of the year.

The Nina Mae Kellogg Award
Provides a substantial cash prize for outstanding sophomore and senior students. Invitations to compete for the award are issued after an initial examination of grade point averages. The senior award is limited to English majors; the sophomore is open to all majors who demonstrate proficiency in writing.

The Philip Ford Graduate Award
Honors the best piece of original scholarship or criticism written for graduate credit in an English course.

The Tom Doulis Graduate Fiction Writing Awards
Awarded for a work of fiction by a student enrolled in a fiction writing class at the graduate level.

The Shelley Reece Award in Poetry
Provided to a graduate student of English who is interested in pursuing a career in the field of writing. The $1000 prize recipient will have completed a minimum of one year of coursework at PSU and will be selected for their achievements, interest and talent in the field of poetry writing, as well as demonstrated financial need.

The Tom Bates Award in Nonfiction Writing
Given to a student enrolled in the M.A. in Writing program whose work shows excellence in creative nonfiction or literary journalism. The $1000 prize is awarded on the combined basis of submitted work and overall performance in the Writing program.

The Giving Back Fellowship
Awarded to a second-year student in the graduate nonfiction program based on writing sample, general achievement and need.

The Marilyn Folkestad Scholarship
Awarded to an undergraduate woman who is returning to school and wishes to pursue a career in Literature and Creative Writing. Candidates are required to demonstrate promise and creative writing talent.