75th Annual Literary Awards Competition

							         Purdue’s 79th Annual Literary Awards Contest
                            http://www.cla.purdue.edu/english/literaryawards/
                                 Deadline: February 15 , 2010
CREATIVE WRITING AWARDS:
P  Bain-Swiggett Award for a single poem, any kind (U): $125
O  Barriss and Iola Mills Award for a single poem (U/G): $500
E  Follett’s College Stores Award for a single poem, any kind (G): $125 gift certificate
T  Polymnia Award for sequence of 3-7 poems on a related topic (U): $125
R  SEA Award for a single prose poem (U): $50
Y  Tom Andrews Clapping Award for sequence of five or more thematically related poems,
     or one long poem of least five pages (G): $150
     Coldwell Banker Shook/Junius Group Award for a short story or novel excerpt (G): $400
P    Margaret Church Memorial Award for a short story (U): $150; (G): $150
R
     Paul Sidwell Memorial Award for a novel-in-progress (30-40 pages plus outline) (U/G): $100
O
S    Purdue Employees Federal Credit Union Award for a Short Story (U/G): $200
E    Purdue Employees Federal Credit Union Award for a Creative Nonfiction essay (U/G): $200
     University Bookstore 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 place: $200 Second Place: $100

EXPOSITORY AND CRITICAL WRITING AWARDS:
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
Department of Anthropology Award for an ethnographic essay: (U/G): $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
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

          Note: G = Graduate students eligible; U = Undergraduate students eligible; U/G = All students eligible
Special award
Budd & Betty Knoll Award for Best Entry of the 79th 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 winner.


                                    RULES FOR SUBMITTING ENTRIES:

Entries must be received by 5:00    pm on Monday, February 15, 2010. Late entries will not be accepted.
1. Each entry must state clearly at the top of the first page the title of the work and the category and classification
    of the award for which it has been entered. Examples: “Poem Title,” “Poetry/Bain-Swiggett (U)”; or “Title,”
    “Literary Criticism/R.W. Babcock (U/G)”; or “Story Title,” “Kneale Awards/Fiction.” Your 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 8.5" x 11" paper (journalism clips OK; black-out
    name). Please double-space prose and single-space poetry. (Exceptions for English 106/108 and Multimedia
    Writing listed above.)
4. Only students registered for the 2009-10 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 2009-10 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 the Department of English Main Office, 324 Heavilon Hall or mailed to:
    Literary Awards, Department of English, 500 Oval Drive, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2038.
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 the same entry to more than one
    contest category. For example, you may submit up to three poems to the Bain-Swiggett (U) category, and you
    may submit up to three poems to the Barriss and Iola Mills (U/G) category, but you may not submit the same
    poems to both categories.
10. Any work that has previously won a Literary Award is ineligible. You may submit non-winning entries from
    previous contests. Only those students who receive awards will be notified, usually by the end of March.


                  Awards will be given at the Literary Awards Banquet on April 22, 2010
                            5:30 pm, Purdue Memorial Union North Ballroom
                     Guest speaker: Pulitzer Prize-winning fiction writer Annie Proulx
                   All award winners will receive a complimentary ticket to the banquet.
       * After the banquet, Annie Proulx will give a free public reading at 8:00 pm in Fowler Hall. *

        Any questions should be addressed to: Professor Donald Platt / Chair, Literary Awards Committee
          Department of English / 500 Oval Drive / Purdue University / West Lafayette, IN 47907-2038
                                      765-494-3740 / plattd@purdue.edu

   For more information please visit http://www.cla.purdue.edu/english/literaryawards/

           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