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Honors Scholarship

Wick Poetry Center Honors Scholarship

$1,000 in scholarships will be awarded for the best poetry submitted by 5X社区 Honors students. Winners will be chosen in collaboration with the Wick Poetry Center.

 

Guidelines

  • These awards are nonrenewable. Undergraduates may reapply.
  • The competition is open to any Honors undergraduate currently enrolled at 5X社区.
  • The scholarship awards are to 5X社区 only.
  • All entries must be original and may be simultaneously submitted to other publications.
  • Each entrant may submit one poem only.
  • The poem should be no more than 100 lines long.
  • The poet鈥檚 name should not appear on the poem.
  • In the cover letter section of this form, poets must write their name, address, email and telephone number.

Entries must be submitted between November 1 and April 1.

Winners are notified each May.

Additionally, the honors literary and arts magazine will consider publishing the winning poem in the following year's edition.

 

2024 Winner and Finalists

  • Isabella Kaufman for 鈥淥ffshoot鈥

Finalist: DJ Johnson

 

2023 Winner 

  • Hannah Fender for "South"

2022 Winner and Finalists

  • Sophia Swengel for 鈥淔uture Shock鈥

Finalists: Anastasia Simms, Gabrielle Wheeler, Wren Baddour, Patrick Moorman, Olivia Wachtel, Olivia Farina


2021 Winners and Finalists

  • 1st Place: Olivia Meyer for  鈥淵ou Are Who I Love鈥
  • 2nd Place: Olivia Farina for 鈥淚f old white men wrote more poems about flowers鈥
  • 3rd Place: Gabriella Clingman: for 鈥淢essenger of Joy鈥

Finalists: Clara Britton, Haley Rixon, Angelina DiFranco, Olivia Wachtel, Christian Zupsic