University of Arizona Student Poetry Contests - Spring Contests
New Contest Offering: LaVerne Harrell Clark Fiction Award
$1,000 awarded for an outstanding work of fiction. The award will be given every other year.
This award has been established in the memory of LaVerne Harrell Clark, noted author and photographer, and first director of the University of Arizona Poetry Center.
The fiction contest is open to all graduate students in the creative writing or English department at the University of Arizona.
This year’s judge is: TBA
Postmark Deadline: February 1, 2010
Guidelines:
- Submit two copies of up to 20 pages of prose, whether a single story or a chapter of a novel. Manuscripts should be typed on white, letter-sized paper and double-spaced. Name should not appear on work.
- Cover letter stating name, address, telephone number, email address, class, social security number (to receive cash prizes, contestants must have a social security number) and student ID number. Also list title of work.
- No stories that have been previously published (by date of submission to this contest) or have won awards in a prior University contest may be submitted.
Send submissions to:
UA LaVerne Harrell Clark Fiction Award
University of Arizona Poetry Center
1508 E. Helen Street
Tucson, AZ 85721-1050
The Poetry Center reserves the right to publish prize-winning work in the Poetry Center newsletter or web site. Winners may also be asked to read their work at an event.
Academy of American Poets, Margaret Sterling
and Poetry Center Awards
The Poetry Center administers this annual poetry contest, which is open to all full time University of Arizona students.
The Academy of American Poets sponsors 200 annual prizes for poetry at colleges and universities nationwide. The prize has been awarded at the University of Arizona since 1979, through the Poetry Center. Former UA winners include Mark Doty, Li-Young Lee, Tony Hoagland.
The Margaret Sterling Memorial and Poetry Center Awards are offered concurrently with the Academy prize.
Awards:
Academy of American Poets: One $100 prize
Margaret Sterling Memorial Awards: Two $50 prizes
Poetry Center Awards: Two $50 prizes.
2009 Contest Award Winners
Drew Krewer, Academy of American Poets Prize
Jamison Crabtree and Chelsea Hodson, Margaret Sterling Memorial Awards
Zach Buscher and Meagan Lehr, Poetry Center Awards
Recent Academy of American Poets Award Winners:
2008: Drew Krewer
2007: Matt Rotando
2006: Laura Maher
2005: Dawn Pendergast
Guidelines for University of Arizona Student Poetry Contest
Deadline: March 13, 2009
2009 Judge: Bhanu Kapil
Contestants must be full-time graduate or undergraduate students at the University of Arizona in the current semester. Entries must be received by no later than Friday, March 13.
Winners will be announced Friday, April 10.
This year’s Student Poetry Contest winners may have their work interpreted by a PaperWorks artists in a visual piece such as a painting, sculpture, mixed media, or book form. Poems and art pieces will be on display at the Poetry Center in the Spring 2010.
Submission packets should include:
Cover letter stating name, address, telephone number, email address, class, social security number (to receive cash prizes, contestants must have a social security number) and student ID number. List titles of poems (or first lines).
Submit two copies of up to 100 lines of poetry, whether a single poem or several poems. No more than one poem should appear on a single page; poems may be longer than one page if necessary. Manuscripts should be typed on white, letter-sized paper. Name should not appear on work.
No poems that have been previously published (by date of submission to this contest) or have won awards in a prior University contest may be submitted.
Send submissions to:
University of Arizona Student Poetry Contest
UA Poetry Center
1508 E. Helen Street
Tucson, AZ 85721-1050
The Poetry Center reserves the right to publish prize-winning poems in the Poetry Center newsletter or web site. Winners may also be asked to read their work at a contest awards reading.
University of Arizona Student Poetry Contests - Fall Contest
Undergraduate Student Poetry Awards
The Hattie Lockett Awards are presented annually to students who, in the fall of their senior year, are judged to have demonstrated the greatest promise as poets.
Awards: A total of $1,200 is available for this year’s awards. The judge may make three awards of $400 or four awards of $300, depending on the merit of the work submitted.
Fall 2008 Hattie Lockett Award Winners
First Place: Julieann Paladin Dela Cruz for “You’re a Quiet Piss in the Morning”
Second Place: Andrew Shuta for “What Sarcasm Means to Me,” “Psychodidacticism,” and “Difference”
Third Place: Chelsea Hodson for “Everything goes up,” “Confessions of an Astronaut,” and “If I did it, here’s how it happened”
Judge: Anna Fulford
Recent Past Winners:
2007: Kellie Davies, Jacob Levine, Lauren Harrison.
2006: Brandon Kreitler, Claire Shefchik, Marianne Go
2005: Marina Kaganova, James Garza, Emily Stuart
Guidelines for the Hattie Lockett Award
To be eligible, a student must be a senior enrolled in at least 12 hours of course work.
Entries must be received by October 2, 2009.
Submission packets should include:
Cover letter stating name, address, telephone number, email address, class, and social security number (to receive cash prizes, contestants must have a social security number) and student ID number. List titles of poems (or first lines).
Submit two copies of a manuscript of three poems. Manuscripts should be typed on white, letter-sized paper. Name should not appear on work.
Send submissions to:
The Hattie Lockett Award
UA Poetry Center
1508 E. Helen Street
Tucson, AZ 85721-0150
The Poetry Center reserves the right to publish prize-winning poems in the Poetry Center newsletter or web site. Winners may also be asked to read their work at a contest awards reading.
