Contests & Prizes

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

Hopwood Contests

There are three Hopwood Contests — that is, contests that hold the "Hopwood" name — held throughout the year:

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

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

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

 For 2020-21, all Hopwood contests have a deadline of noon on January 27th, 2021 except for students graduating in the winter who will submit by December 20th, 2020.

Non-Hopwood Contests

• Fall Single Poem Contests
  • 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 (for first- and second-year students)
  • The Marjorie Rapaport Award in Poetry
• The Roy W. Cowden Memorial Fellowship
  
• The Kasdan Scholarship in Creative Writing
  
• The Cora Duncan Award in Fiction
• The Peter Phillip Pratt Award in Fiction
• The Keith Taylor Award for Excellence in Poetry
• David Porter Award for Excellence in Journalism

For 2020-21, all non-Hopwood Contests have a deadline of noon on January 27th, 2021 except for students graduating in the winter who will submit by December 20th, 2020.