The 82nd Annual Purdue Literary Awards

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Entries must be received by 5:00 pm on Friday, February 15, 2013.

Message from Dr. Porter Shreve, Professor of English
Chair, Literary Awards Committee

The English Department is pleased to announce the 82nd year of the annual Literary Awards Competition. Over 70 prizes will be awarded to undergraduate and graduate students at Purdue in categories as far ranging as African American Studies, Anthropology, English as a Second Language, Philosophy and Rhetoric and Composition, as well as in the categories of literary nonfiction, poetry, and fiction. Purdue faculty across the disciplines help to judge submissions. This year, nearly $11,000 will be distributed in award money to our students.

Please help us publicize Literary Awards this year by announcing the contest to your students. THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15TH. Students can find out about the different prizes by going to the website at www.cla.purdue.edu/english/literaryawards.

Please find attached a flyer announcing the 82nd annual Literary Awards Competition. We'd be grateful if you would PRINT AND PASS THE FLYER AROUND YOUR CLASSES to let students write down the website and note those prizes to which they might be interested in submitting. If you are in contact with students from last semester who have done exceptional work that might be submitted to Literary Awards, please encourage them to submit it.

As always, Literary Awards will host a banquet to honor our winners. Our speaker at this year’s banquet will be NATIONAL BOOK AWARD AND NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD-WINNING POET AND MEMOIRIST MARK DOTY. He will give a reading, free and open to all, on Monday, April 8, in Fowler Hall, Stewart Center. The reading is sponsored jointly by the English Department and Purdue University Libraries. You and your students are invited, so please reserve this date on your busy calendars.

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Purdue’s 82nd Annual Literary Awards Contest
Deadline: February 15, 2013


CREATIVE WRITING AWARDS:
1. 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 Higher Education 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
SEA Award for a single prose poem (U): $50
Tom Andrews Clapping Award for sequence of five or more thematically related poems,
or one long poem of least five pages (G): $200

2. Prose
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 Bookstore Award for a short story (U): $100 gift certificate
Booth Tarkington Award in Fiction for a short story or novel excerpt (G): $400

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
(*Note: 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
Art History Prize for an outstanding essay in the history of the visual arts (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
Common Reading Program Award for best creative writing work, essay, or multi-media writing reflecting how
the Common Reading text relates to the college experience or future endeavors. (Restricted to first-year and
transfer students). Creative Writing, Essay: $150 (1st); $50 (2nd). Multi-media Writing: $150 (1st); $50 (2nd)
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): $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
Philosophy: Eric L. Clitheroe Award for essay in any field of philosophy (U): $80 (1st)
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


The following special awards will be given to outstanding entries submitted in the above categories:
Phi Beta Kappa Award for Best Undergraduate Entry: $200
Phi Beta Kappa Award for Best Graduate Entry: $200
Phi Beta Kappa Award for Best High School Entry: $200
Budd & Betty Knoll Award for Best Entry of the 81st 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 copy of the current issue to every Literary Awards winner.

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RULES FOR SUBMISSION


Entries must be received by 5:00 pm on Friday, February 15, 2013. Late entries will not be accepted.

1.Each entry must state clearly at the top of the first page the title of the work, the category of the award for which it has been entered, and student classification (U, G, U/G). 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 2011-12 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 2011-12 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 beginning of April.

Awards will be given at the Literary Awards Banquet on April 8, 2013
5:30 pm, Purdue Memorial Union North Ballroom
Guest speaker: National Book Award-winning poet and nonfiction writer Mark Doty
All award winners will receive a complimentary ticket to the banquet.
* After the banquet, Mark Doty will give a free public reading at 8:00 pm in Fowler Hall. *

Any questions should be addressed to: Professor Porter Shreve / Chair, Literary Awards Committee
Department of English / 500 Oval Drive / Purdue University / West Lafayette, IN 47907-2038
765-494-3740 / [e-mail]

For more information please visit 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