The University of Virginia's English Department awards a number of writing prizes each spring. Please complete this screen and the next one to determine your eligibility for the various prizes and read about their rules, deadlines, and restrictions.
Only currently enrolled UVA undergraduate students are eligible for the undergraduate prizes. Some undergraduate prizes are restricted by major or year, but some are open to all years and majors. At the graduate level, our prizes are limited to students currently studying in the UVA English Department only.
Students may only submit one entry per competition and all work submitted must be unpublished. You can only submit PDF (.pdf) files. Please save your submission in that format. Please make the submission anonymized: please do not list your name on a title page or in the document headers.
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If you have a question about eligibility or your submission, contact Carl Stukenborg at cjs3cu@virginia.edu.