Eligibility

The Hopwood Program administers 2 contests that are exclusively open to freshman and sophomore students:

• The Jeffrey L. Weisberg Memorial Prize in Poetry
• and the Hopwood Underclassmen Contest.

Additionally, underclassmen may also be eligible to submit to the following contests (please read all eligibility requirements carefully):

• The Marjorie Rapaport Award in Poetry
• The Roy W. Cowden Memorial Fellowship
• The Michael R. Gutterman Award in Poetry
• The Bain-Swiggett Poetry Prize
• The Academy of American Poets Award (Undergraduate Division)
• The Hopwood Award Theodore Roethke Prize

Undergraduate students third year or above may be eligible to submit to the following contests (please read all eligibility requirements carefully):

• The Marjorie Rapaport Award in Poetry
• The Roy W. Cowden Memorial Fellowship
• The Michael R. Gutterman Award in Poetry
• The Bain-Swiggett Poetry Prize
• The Academy of American Poets Award (Undergraduate Division)
• The Hopwood Award Theodore Roethke Prize

Graduate students may be eligible to submit to the following contests (please read all eligibility requirements carefully):

• The Michael R. Gutterman Award in Poetry
• The Bain-Swiggett Poetry Prize
• The Academy of American Poets Award (Graduate Division)
• The Hopwood Award Theodore Roethke Prize