Submission Deadline: Davenport Prizes in Fiction and Poetry
April 25 4:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Old Main, Room 216
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The English Department is now accepting submissions for the Davenport Prizes in both Fiction and Poetry. Details follow. (Information on the Playwriting and Nonfiction prizes are forthcoming from elsewhere.)
DAVENPORT FICTION PRIZE
DEADLINE: Thursday, April 25 at 4 o’clock
SUBMISSION CRITERIA:
- Entrants must be in “good standing” but need not be English majors or enrolled in an English course; students who completed coursework on campus during the 2017-18 school year, but have not yet commenced and are not currently enrolled are eligible to submit, provided they will be commencing from Knox in June.
- Only one story per author is allowed.
- Submitted stories need not be written especially for the contest, but cannot have been previously published off campus (note that publication on-campus does not exclude a story from entry); no story that has received a prize in a Knox contest may be submitted to any subsequent contest, although a rejected manuscript may be submitted a second time; any story currently under review for another prize may be submitted.
- Each submission must include a title page or cover sheet with the author’s name and complete contact information, as well as the title of the story; please leave name and contact information off subsequent pages.
- Each submission should be double-spaced and paginated.
- Each submitted manuscript is limited to 10,000 words.
- Only original work by the contestant may be entered (translations are not eligible).
- All entries must be submitted in hardcopy to Gina Franco’s office (Old Main 216) no later than Thursday, April 25th by 4 p.m. If you have questions about the submission guidelines, contact gfranco@knox.edu.
Submissions by graduating seniors will also be considered for the Proctor Fenn Sherwin Prize.
Cash prizes are determined by the English Department in consultation with the judge’s recommendations for awards. As well, the prize-winning manuscripts each year will be retained by the college and may be published on the English Department’s website.
DAVENPORT POETRY PRIZE
DEADLINE: Thursday, April 25 at 4 o’clock
SUBMISSION CRITERIA:
- Entrants must be in “good standing” but need not be English majors or enrolled in an English course; students who completed coursework on campus during the 2017-18 school year, but have not yet commenced and are not currently enrolled are eligible to submit, provided they will be commencing from Knox in June;
- Manuscripts should include three poems; only one manuscript submission per student is allowed (our judge reserves the right to select prize winners based on a single poem or on the manuscript as a whole);
- Submitted poems need not be written especially for the contest, but poems cannot have been previously published off-campus (note that publication on-campus does not exclude a poem from entry); no poem that has received a prize in a Knox contest may be submitted to any subsequent contest, although a rejected manuscript may be submitted a second time;
- Your submission must include a title page or cover sheet with the author’s name, complete contact information, and the title of each poem; please leave name and contact information off subsequent pages;
- Only original work by the contestant may be entered (translations are not eligible);
- All entries must be submitted in hardcopy to Gina Franco’s office (Old Main 216) no later than Thursday, April 25th by 4 p.m. If you have questions about the submission guidelines, contact gfranco@knox.edu.
Select submissions will also be considered for the Audrey Collet-Conard Prize in Poetry.
Cash prizes are determined by the English Department in consultation with the judge’s recommendations for awards. As well, the prize-winning manuscripts each year will be retained by the College and may be published on the English Department’s website.
This year’s judge is Meg Files. Files is a fiction writer and poet, as well as an editor, publisher, and writing conference organizer. For more details, click here, and scroll down.
Prizewinners will be announced at Meg Files' Caxton Club reading on Friday, May 17th at 4 o’clock in the Alumni Room of Old Main.
Please direct questions to Gina Franco.
