Dear English students, A reminder that the submission deadline for the 2012 Queens College Undergraduate Writing Prizes is this *Friday, April 20th, at noon*. For details and submission guidelines, please see the info below and in the attached document. Best, Dr. Hong ---------- Forwarded message ---------- 2012 QUEENS COLLEGE UNDERGRAD WRITING PRIZES**** ** ** *Guidelines for Submission***** ** ** All currently matriculated QC undergrads, as well as those undergrads who finished in December 2011 but are graduating in June 2012, are eligible for prizes awarded in Fiction, Non-fiction, Drama, Poetry, Translation; and in work in any genre done in Composition courses, English 95, 110, 120, and SEEK English 110 and 120. Students may submit work in any or all categories; work done as a class assignment is eligible. The Composition Prizes are limited to students whose work for English 95, 110, 120, and SEEK 110 and 120 was done in either Fall 2011 or Spring 2012. Page limits: for Non-fiction and Fiction, 20 pages; for Poetry, 10 pages; for Drama, two one-act plays or one full-length play. All entries must be formatted according to MLA guidelines for English papers; students unsure of these guidelines may consult the Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) at the following address:**** ** ** http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/**** ** ** *ENTRIES NOT FORMATTED IN MLA STYLE WILL NOT BE READ.* ** ** Follow this procedure in submitting work:**** ** ** Entries are due in the Eng. Dept. Office, Klapper Hall 607, noon Friday, April 20th.**** ** ** Students may submit work in any or all categories. If you are submitting work for a specific non-fiction prize (The David B. Feinberg Prize, The Renaissance Prize, etc.) please indicate in your cover sheet.**** ** ** All entries must be typed on 8 1/2 by 11-inch paper, plain font, 12 pitch, the pages numbered. Put two copies of your entry in a manila envelope labeled with a pseudonym, rather than the student’s real name, and the genre of your submission or specific non-fiction category (e.g., Fiction, Poetry, The Gilmore D. Clark Prize, etc.), and deposit it in the available box in the English Dept. Students must submit a separate entry for each genre. If you are submitting in three genres, you will submit three separate manila envelopes. Each entry must contain one cover sheet with the following information:**** ** ** Pseudonym**** Real Name and SS#**** Genre of your submission**** Specific non-fiction category (if necessary)**** Address, Phone Number, Email Address**** ** ** If you are submitting work in translation for the GREGORY RABASSA PRIZE IN LITERARY TRANSLATION, guidelines are available on a separate handout.**** ** ** Here is a list of specified non-fiction prizes; all prizes carry monetary awards in the range of $50 to $200, but the amounts vary from year to year:* *** ** ** COMPOSITION PRIZE FOR WORK DONE IN SEEK ENGLISH 110**** ** ** COMPOSITION PRIZE FOR WORK DONE IN SEEK ENGLISH 120**** ** ** COMPOSITION PRIZE FOR WORK DONE IN ENGLISH 95**** ** ** COMPOSITION PRIZE FOR WORK DONE IN ENGLISH 110**** ** ** COMPOSITION PRIZE FOR WORK DONE IN ENGLISH 120**** ** ** THE GILMORE D. CLARK PRIZE FOR AN ESSAY DONE IN ENGLISH 165W**** ** ** CLINTON OLIVER PRIZE FOR WORK IN BLACK AMERICAN STUDIES**** ** ** LEO STATSKY PRIZE FOR WORK ON THE IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE**** ** ** THE CLARA WRITING PRIZE FOR SCHOLARSHIP ON THE EARLY AMERICAN NOVEL**** ** ** THE FACULTY PRIZE FOR AN ESSAY ON EARLY MODERN BRITISH LITERATURE **** ** ** DAVID B. FEINBERG PRIZE FOR AN ESSAY ON GENDER AND SEXUALITY**** ** ** QC ALUMNI PRIZE FOR AN ESSAY ON LATINO/LATINA STUDIES**** ** ** QC ALUMNI PRIZE FOR AN ESSAY ON ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES**** ** ** ** ** Prize winners will be contacted by Tuesday, May 1st.**** The Writing Prizes’ Ceremony will take place during the second week of May. Exact time and location to be announced.**** ** ** Any questions, please contact Ryan Black at rblack25@msn.com **** -- Caroline Kyungah Hong, PhD Assistant Professor, English Queens College CUNY caroline.hong@qc.cuny.edu