Dear Graduate Students, Please find attached and pasted below the submission guidelines for the annual Nancy Comley Prize, awarded to the best essay by an MA English or MS Ed student. We hope you will all consider submitting something, whether it's an essay you've already written for an MA class, a work-in-progress, or your thesis essay. And a final reminder that you may email Bill or me your preregistration requests by 11:59pm tonight. After that, in order to register yourself for courses, you will need to wait till your enrollment appointments, which you can see on your CUNYfirst. Best, Caroline and Bill -- Caroline Kyungah Hong, PhD Assistant Professor of English Director of Graduate Studies (MA) Queens College, CUNY caroline.hong@qc.cuny.edu -- *THE NANCY COMLEY PRIZE* for the best essay written by an MA or MS Ed English student Named for the long-standing Chair of the English Department, the Nancy Comley Prize was established in 2012 to honor the best essay written by a graduate student matriculated in either the MA or MS Ed/English programs. The prize is sponsored by the English Department Alumni Fund. All currently matriculated MA and MS Ed students, as well as MA and MS Ed students who graduated on February 1, 2015, are eligible to compete. Your submission should be between 10 and 25 pages in length, typed, double-spaced, in a standard 12-pt. font, with 1-inch margins and page numbers. It must be carefully proofread and formatted according to MLA style, including a Works Cited page at the end. The deadline for submissions is *Friday, April 17, 2015*. All entries must be submitted via email to caroline.hong@qc.cuny.edu. Before submitting your entry, please take careful note of the following instructions: - Essays must be submitted in DOC, DOCX, RTF, or PDF formats. - The filename for your essay should read “[CUNYfirst ID number]NancyComleyPrize.” If you don’t know your 8-digit CUNYfirst ID number, please look it up before submitting your essay. - In the body of your email, make sure to include the following information: 1. Your full name 2. Your 8-digit CUNYfirst ID number 3. The title of your essay § Make sure that your name does not appear anywhere in your essay, which will be blind-read by the prize judges, who are faculty members serving on the MA Committee. Winners will be contacted by Monday, April 27, and invited to receive their award during the department prizes ceremony on *Monday, May 4*, from 3:00–4:00pm in the Godwin-Ternbach Museum. Questions about the Nancy Comley Prize should be directed to the Director of the MA English Program, Caroline Hong, at caroline.hong@qc.cuny.edu.