Entries are being accepted for the Department of English’s annual prize competitions, which are open to students of all majors unless otherwise noted. More than $1,500 in prizes will be awarded.
The competition categories are:
For first-year essayists
- The Karl Lemmerman Prize for the best essay written by a first-year student.
For advanced essayists
- The Holden Prize for the best essay by a sophomore, junior or senior student.
For poets
- The Finley Foster and Emily Hills Prizes for the best poem or group (three) of poems by an undergraduate student.
- The Helen B. Sharnoff Prize for the best formal poem or group (three) of formal poems by an undergraduate student. Formal poems are those written in pre-determined forms: e.g., abecedarian, cinquain, ghazal, pantoum, sestina, sonnet, terza rima, villanelle, etc.
For prose writers
- The Edith Garber Krotinger Prize for the best creative writing other than poetry by an undergraduate student.
- The Eleanor Leuser Award for outstanding writing for or about children by an undergraduate student enrolled in a creative writing course at the university.
For women writers
- The Emily M. Hills Award for the best poem or essay written by an undergraduate woman in the College of Arts and Sciences.
For grad students
- The Timothy Calhoun Memorial Prize for Poetry for the best poem or group of poems (three) by a graduate student in the Department of English.
To be considered for the competition, each writer must:
- submit a hard copy of his/her work without a name on the entry to Guilford House, 106B;
- fill out the appropriate entry form (available in 106B); and
- submit the entry as an email Word attachment as well to sxd290@case.edu by Monday, March 2, at noon.
No submissions can be duplicates from one prize to another.
Please note: Students may receive no more than $100 in prize money without reduction of financial aid, subject to federal and state regulations.