2025 Graduate Student Awards

CREATIVE WRITING

Barriss and Iola Mills Award for a single poem ...$300

Booth Tarkington Fiction Award for a short story ...$300

LITERARY CRITICISM

Von's Book Shop Literary Criticism Award ...$100 gift certificate

INTERDISCIPLINARY AND CLA AWARDS

Environmental Studies and Nature Writing Award for an essay or creative writing exploring some aspect of environmentalism/nature (8,500 words or fewer) ...$100

LGBTQ Studies Award for an essay or creative writing exploring some aspect of sexuality and gender studies (8,500 words or fewer) ...$100

School of Languages and Cultures Award for Literary/Cultural Analysis of texts written in a language other than English (8,500 words or fewer) ...$100

Science, Technology and the Humanities Award for an essay exploring the impact of science and technology on society and culture including literature/film (8,500 words or fewer) ...$100

KNEALE AWARDS

Kneale Award in Literary Criticism ...$200 (first place) ...$100 (second place)

Kneale Award in Theory and Cultural Studies (includes film and visual studies) ...$200 (first place) ...$100 (second place)

Sponsored by the Department of English, the Purdue University Libraries, the Honors College, the Black Cultural Center, Arthuriana, and Modern Fiction Studies.