UPDATE May 5, 2023:
Beginning this year, first- and second-year students completing work between the March due date and Dean's Date of the same academic year will be allowed to submit an essay for consideration for that class prize for the following academic year. To be considered, they will need to submit their essays by the end of the academic year—in other words, they need to submit their essays while they are technically still first- or second-years, but after the March due date that year.
First- and second-years may submit one essay for prize consideration up to the day of the last Department business meeting, usually the Tuesday before the Monday class day—this year May 23—by 5 p.m. to Kelly Lake (kalake @princeton.edu) or to the links for First Years or Sophomore Prizes below. Please advise students to put in the subject line (all caps): SOPHOMORE ESSAY PRIZE.
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Prize entries are due by 11:59 PM on Monday, March 13, 2023 and should be submitted electronically in PDF format at the link following the appropriate prize below.
Please be sure your Name, PUID#, Class Year, Email, ENG courses (if applicable) and Prize Category are indicated at the top of all submissions.
If you have questions please contact the DUS, Russ Leo [rleo@] or UA, Kelly Lake [kalake@]
Class of 1883 English Prize for Academic Freshmen: Open to all freshman candidates for the AB degree who have done superior academic work in any course in the Department of English: A prize for the best essay on any topic in English or American literature; the essay need not have been written in fulfillment of a course requirement.
One entry allowed per person — https://www.dropbox.com/request/tfzDBmpM9oM1TIQJau2p
Class of 1883 English Prize for Freshmen in the School of Engineering: Open to all freshmen candidates for the BSE degree who have done superior academic work in any course in the Department of English: A prize for the best essay on any topic in English or American literature; the essay need not have been written in fulfillment of a course requirement.
One entry allowed per person — https://www.dropbox.com/request/OXXlineTxYGAuvlSe8FD
Francis Biddle Sophomore Prize: Open to all sophomores: A prize for the best essay on any topic in English or American literature; the essay need not have been written in fulfillment of a course requirement.
One entry allowed per person — https://www.dropbox.com/request/TdG0XNtEiOyQ7c9d4WLP
Class of 1870 Sophomore Prize: Open to all sophomore candidates for the AB degree: A prize for the best essay in English or American literature.
One entry allowed per person — https://www.dropbox.com/request/z3Aeyc9rHESRQpuNOiiT
Ward Mathis Prize: Open to all undergraduates: A prize for the best short story.
One entry allowed per person — https://www.dropbox.com/request/9t73214pyXf0GkQ0sWQQ
Poetry Prizes: Open to all undergraduates. You may submit no more than 3 poems total. Each of your poems will be considered for all the prizes below.
— https://www.dropbox.com/request/BmGxB3XuOjKAiAtT6RjU
- Academy of American Poets Prize: A prize for one or more unpublished poems.
- Bain-Swiggett Poetry Prize: A prize for one or more poems “in the best tradition of English verse.”
- Morris W. Croll Poetry Prize: A prize for the best poem, with no restrictions on subject or form.