The English Department annually conducts a number of awards competitions, each of which recognizes excellence in a different aspect of literature or language studies. The winners, who also receive modest monetary stipends, are recognized at the Honors Day Convocation, held each year in May. Not all contests are offered every year, nor are all awards granted every year.
A list of past contest winners is available here.
Current Contest Submission Information, including deadlines, requirements, and contact info. [PDF]
1. The William Carlin Slattery Memorial Award in Poetry or Drama
This contest encourages creative and original endeavors by recognizing outstanding work in poetry or drama written by an SIUE undergraduate or graduate student.
Winners: Cassandra Howard and Heath Luster
Honorable Mention: Megan Hudgins
2. The Faye and Phillip Benjamin Honor Award in English Language and Literature
This award is given to an outstanding English student.
Winner: Elizabeth Moore
3. The Garry N. Murphy Memorial Award in English
This award goes to that undergraduate English major or minor who, in the judgment of the English faculty, best exhibits precision in written English and subtlety and imagination in studies of language or literature.
Winner: Jacob Carlson
4. The Mimi Zanger Memorial Award in Fiction
This recognizes outstanding fiction by an SIUE undergraduate or graduate student.
Winner: Ashby Tyler
5. The Dan Havens Award in American Literature
This award recognizes excellence in undergraduate writing in the field of American Literature before 1914.
Winner:
6. A. Edwin Graham Memorial Award
The award is presented to an SIUE graduate student for precision in written English and subtlety and imagination in graduate studies of language or literature.
Winner: Elizabeth Wood
7. Friends of Lovejoy Library Student Teaching Award
This award is given in recognition of excellence in student teaching in English.
Winner: Andrew Crider
8. The Gertrude Drake Award
Presented for academic excellence in the study of Latin or Greek.
Winner: Nancy Staples
9. The Nicholas T. Joost Memorial Award
Named after a long-time member of the SIUE English Department and the founding editor of PLL: Papers on Language & Literature, this award competition is open to open to graduate students enrolled in the Department of English Language and Literature with a specialization in American and English Literature or who have completed degree requirements within the last three semesters who choose the thesis or three-paper plan option. Selection is based on the quality of the thesis submitted by the applicant, or in the case of a student who chooses the three-paper plan, the quality of all three papers submitted.
Winner: n/a
These award competitions are announced in most English classes, usually early in the Spring semester; for more information, contact the Department of English.
URL: http://www.siue.edu/ENGLISH/contests.html
Published by: Department of English Language and Literature
Last Update: 13 April 2008 by English Web Manager
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