DONALD HALL POETRY PRIZE COMPETITION
Submission Deadline: Friday, December 15, 2023
Winners Announced: March 2024, Cash prizes awarded to the winners!
Each year, the College of Arts and Sciences sponsors a student poetry contest in honor of Donald Hall, former US Poet Laureate and native of Hamden, CT. A committee of QU faculty selects the best student poetry and awards cash prizes to the first, second, and third-place winners. Prizewinners will read from their work at an annual celebration of student creativity in the spring semester, and the first-place winner will be published in Montage, QU’s literary & art magazine.
Who’s Eligible?
- Undergraduate students currently enrolled at Quinnipiac University. (Note: Former first-prize winners are not eligible.)
- Guidelines
- Submit three poems (no more than five pages total).
- Send entry as an e-mail attachment (Word document) to Professor Jason Koo at Jason.Koo@quinnipiac.edu.
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- Write “DH Poetry Submission” in the Subject field.
- File should be saved as YourlastnameDHPoetryPrize.doc.
- Each poem must be titled.
- Write “DH Poetry Submission” in the Subject field.
- Your name should not appear on any of the pages of poetry.
- On a separate page of your document, include a cover sheet with your name, titles of poems, student ID number, and semester standing.
- Winners will be notified by e-mail.
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WILDER FICTION PRIZE COMPETITION
Extended Submission Deadline: Friday, December 15, 2023
Winners Announced: March 2024
Cash prizes awarded to the winners!
Each year, the College of Arts and Sciences sponsors a student fiction contest in honor of Thornton Wilder, Pulitzer-Prize-winning novelist and playwright, and longtime resident of Hamden, CT. A committee of QU faculty selects the best pieces of short fiction by a student and awards cash prizes to the first, second, and third-place winners. Prizewinners will read from their work at an annual celebration of student creativity in the spring
semester, and the first-place winner will be published in Montage, QU’s literary & art magazine.
Who’s Eligible?
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- Undergraduate students currently enrolled at Quinnipiac University. (Note: Former first-prize
winners are not eligible.)
Guidelines - Submit one short story (no more than 3,000 words).
- Send entry as an e-mail attachment (Word document) to Professor Jason Koo
at Jason.Koo@quinnipiac.edu. - Write “Wilder Fiction Submission” in the Subject field.
- File should be saved as YourlastnameWilderPrize.doc.
- The story must be titled.
- Your name should not appear on any of the pages of your fiction entry
- On a separate page of your document, include a cover sheet with your name, title of
story, student ID number, and semester standing.
- Undergraduate students currently enrolled at Quinnipiac University. (Note: Former first-prize
Winners will be notified by e-mail.
