Student Writing Contests
The English Department offers several monetary awards for student writing. The descriptions below apply to the contests from the 2019-2020 academic year.
Farthest North Fiction Contest The Contest will offer a $100 award and is open to all undergraduate students. The award will be for the best submissions in:
Entries must be received by March 8, 2020 in the Department of English, RM 850, Gruening Building or emailed to uaf-english-dept@alaska.edu. Each submission should have a cover sheet that includes:
Only one entry per participant. |
The Minnie E. Wells Award for Literary Criticism The award is a $200 Award and open to undergraduate students who have not yet earned a bachelor’s degree. Writings can be from either Spring, Summer or Fall semester of 2019 or the Spring semester of 2020 in a upper-division or graduate level course in literature offered by the Department of English. Deadline for submission is March 8, 2020. An eligible essay would demostrate careful scholarship, sound critical method, and close reading of text. It would not be heavily documented research paper, but it might include some annotations. The essay must be single-sided, typewritten and double-spaced. The entry should have a cover sheet that includes:
Only one entry per participant. Entries must be received by the Department of English, RM 850, Gruening Building or emailed to uaf-english-dept@alaska.edu. |
Northern Lights Essay - Graduate The contest is open to all graduate students on University of Alaska Fairbanks campus. The $100 award will be given for the best submission in the following category: Non-fiction-Personal essay or journal entries. Deadline is March 8, 2020. Please bring your entries into the Department of English, RM 850, Gruening Building or emailed to uaf-english-dept@alaska.edu. Each submission should have a cover sheet that includes:
No more than one entry per participant will be accepted. |
Northern Lights Essay Contest - Undergraduate The contest is open to all undergraduate students on the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus. The $100 award will be given for the best submission in the following category: Non-fiction-Personal essay or journal entries. Deadline is March 8, 2020. Please bring your entries into the Department of English, RM 850, Gruening Building or emailed to uaf-english-dept@alaska.edu. Each submission should have a cover sheet that includes:
No more than one entry per participant will be accepted. |
Harold McCraken Award for fiction and non-fiction, outstanding writing about Alaska and the north country Dr. Harold McCracken, then a director of the Whitney Galler of Wester Art at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming established the award in 1968. His long assocaition with Alaska began when he led an Ohio State University expedition to the Territory from 1915-1917. He mined in Alaska from 1919-1920, and led an OSU expedition to film the life of the Alaska brown bear and other game in 1922 and 1923. He also led the Stoll-McCraken expedition for the American Museum of Natural History, and added to the archeological information on the Aleutian Islands. In 1966 the University of Alaska conferred an Honorary Doctor of Law degree on McCracken for distinguished achievements which added greatly to the knowledge about Alaska. He has written more than 30 books and several articles, many of which deal with Alaska. The contest is open to all students enrolled in all campuses of the University of Alaska system. A $150 award will be given for fiction or non-fiction writing (not exceeding 30 double-spaced typed pages). One entry per participant will be accepted. The cover sheet should contain:
The story, chapter, essay, or journal entry should be neatly typed, double-spaced on one side only of standard weight paper and stapled in the upper left corner. No name or other identifying informaiton should appear on any page of the story, chapter, essay, or journal entry. Entries must be received by March 8, 2020 and submitted to the address below, delivered in person to Renee Pike (GRUE 850), or emailed to uaf-english-dept@alaska.edu. Department of English Fax: 907-474-5247 |
George W. McDaniel Writing Fund The George W. McDaniel Writing Fund provides scholarships for graduate students majoring in creative writing at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Requirements:
Award amount: $1000 Apply through the general application, here. If you meet the above criteria, your application will be sent to the appropriate committee for review. Deadline: March 8, 2020.
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Caroline Musgrove Coons Writing Scholarship Purpose: Eligibility: Submission: Selection Process: Application Due Date: Mailing Address: Selection: Requirements:
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