Contests & Prizes

There are a variety of prizes, awards and fellowships available in the Fall, Winter and Spring/Summer terms.

There are four Hopwood Contests held throughout the year:

• Summer Hopwood Contest (only open to students enrolled in the spring or summer terms)

• The Hopwood Award Theodore Roethke Prize (open to all students--Fall Term)

• Hopwood Underclassmen Contest (open to first- and second-year students--Fall Term)

• Graduate and Undergraduate Hopwood Contest (open to all students--Winter Term)
  

Other Contests

Fall Term

• The Academy of American Poets
• The Bain-Swiggett Poetry Prize
• The Michael R. Gutterman Award in Poetry
• The Jeffrey L. Weisberg Memorial Prize in Poetry
• The Roy W. Cowden Memorial Fellowship

Winter Term

• The Kasdan Scholarship in Creative Writing
• The Arthur Miller Award

Spring/Summer Term

• The Marjorie Rapaport Award in Poetry

There are fifteen additional prizes!