English

Writing Contests

Each year Clark's English Department sponsors writing contests, open to all Clark undergraduate students, including matriculated COPACE students.

All work must be completely original.

Loring Holmes & Ruth Dodd Drama Contest

DEADLINE:  FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2013, AT NOON

Prizes: $500 / $250 / $100

(Number of submissions per student limited to ONE. Entries can be a one-act play or a section of a longer play; Minimum of 10 pages, NOT to exceed 50 pages.  Entries must be in standard playwriting form. Students should contact Professor Gino DiIorio at ginod42@aol.com for instructions if they are not familiar with standard playwriting format.)

Prentiss Cheney Hoyt Poetry Contest

DEADLINE:  FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2013, AT NOON

Prizes: $100 / $50 / $25

(Number of submissions per student limited to FIVE poems)

Betty '79 and Stanley Sultan Short Story Contest

DEADLINE:  FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2013, AT NOON

Prizes: $250 / $100 / $50

(Number of submissions per student limited to ONE story, not to exceed 5,000 words)

Leroy Allston Ames Essay Contest

DEADLINE:  MONDAY, APRIL 29, 2013, AT NOON


for best essay on the literature and/or history of England from 1750 to 1900.

Prizes: $500 / $250 / $100

(Number of submissions per student limited to ONE essay)


All work must be completely original.

RULES:

  1. All submissions must be the original work of the student.  All entries must be unsigned. No handwritten or electronic entries will be accepted. TWO COPIES of each entry must be hand delivered to the English Department office by the posted deadline.  Do not place entry/entries in an envelope.
  2. On a separate full piece of paper, write the title or first line of the entry, together with your name, campus box number, email address, year in school, and telephone number. All poetry entries should be listed on the same piece of paper.  Place this piece of paper in a sealed envelope and write the contest name on outside of envelope.  Use a separate envelope for each contest.  Missing information will disqualify your entry.
  3. Both the entry and the sealed envelope must be dropped off at the English Department office by the deadline date (no exceptions). 
  4. No entries will be returned. The English Department may present or publish winning entries.  Contest winners will be invited to present their winning entries at Academic Spree Day.
  5. If, in the opinion of the judges, none of the entries in a particular category is deserving of an award, none shall be given.

2011 Winners

Prentiss Cheney Hoyt Poetry Contest

1st: Gwen Walsh, '11— "Ode to Endometriosis"

2nd: Sasha Katechis, '17—"As the Sun"

3rd: Johanna Rothenberg, '11—"At Night I Dream of Raisins and Almonds"

Betty '79 and Stanley Sultan Short Story Contest

1st: Chanchala Gunewardena, '11—"Lakshmi: Narratives of a female suicide bomber"

2nd: Sean Minahan, '12—"Driftwood"

3rd: Charlotte Turner, '14—"The Changeling Child"

Loring Holms & Ruth Dodd Drama Contest

1st: Natasha Ochshorn, '11—"Halfway to Ypsilanti"

2nd: Alex Kump, '13—"[Catherine (The Great) Dictionary Girl]"

3rd: Sean Morrow, '11—"Behold the Man"

3rd: Alexandra Tennant, '13—"Absolution"

Leroy Allston Ames Essay Contest

1st: Jen Cantin, '11—"A Disclaimer on the Rights of Women: Mary Wollstonecraft's Class Conundrum"

2nd: Lauren Onifer, '11—"Collins' Deconstruction of Physiognomy in 'The Moonshine'"

2010 Winners

Prentiss Cheney Hoyt Poetry Contest

1st: Daniel McDonald, '10— "New York Haiku"

2nd: Elizabeth Decasse, '11— "Neurovan"

3rd: Emma Siemasko, '10— "Endings"

Betty '79 and Stanley Sultan Short Story Contest

1st: Charlotte McGrew, '10— "Ravenna"

2nd: Matthew Furman, '13— "A Drink"

3rd: Natasha Ochshorn, '11—  "That Brooklyn Bullshit"

Loring Holms & Ruth Dodd Drama Contest

1st: Natasha Ochshorn, '11—  "Pluto"

2nd: Maxie Kalish, '11—  "Kibitz and Kissing"

Leroy Allston Ames Essay Contest

Winner TBD

 

2009 Winners

Prentiss Cheney Hoyt Poetry Contest

1st: James Kobialka '10: "Ninety Six Feet of Zen'"

2nd: Naomi Cher, '09: "Beomoose"

3rd: Rebecca Good, '09: "How to Dodge Bullets" & Amital (Tali) Sachs, '09: "The Tin Soldier Stands This Way"

Betty '79 and Stanley Sultan Short Story Contest

1st: Danielle Coles, '09: "Genesis, Inc."

2nd: Janna King, '09: "On the Wire"

3rd: Linnie Bendor-Grynbaum, '09: "Eighty-Six"

Loring Holms & Ruth Dodd Drama Contest

1st: Sean Morrow, '11: "You, Me and the Cake"

Leroy Allston Ames Essay Contest

1st: Fana Hickinson, '10: "The Young Lead the Old: The Construction of the Ideal Citizen in Children's Abolitionist Literature"