Annual OSU English Department
Academy of American Poets Prize

We are pleased to announce the 2008-09 OSU Academy of American Poets Prize literary competition.   Funded by a generous grant from the OSU Foundation and the OSU College of Arts and Sciences, endowing the prize in perpetuity, the competition awards a prize of $100 each year.

The competition is open to all full- or part-time OSU students, graduate and undergraduate.   Manuscripts submitted in the competition will be judged by a writer of national reputation.   The winner will be announced at the beginning of the Spring 2009 semester.

Interested students are invited to submit no more than one (1) poem manuscript (no more than 100 lines in length) to the competition.   Manuscript entries must be typed, on only one side of each page or pages of standard unlined typing paper.   Only one (1) copy of the manuscript should be submitted, and entries will not be returned.   If a student wishes to submit entries to more than one contest, the entries must be different entries.

Only the title of the poem should appear on the manuscript.   If the poem manuscript requires more than one page, the pages should be stapled together.   The scholarship name, poem title and the author’s name, address, phone number, and CWID should be typed on a separate piece of paper and clipped to the manuscript.

Poem manuscripts should be submitted to JuDean Scott in 205 Morrill Hall by 5:00pm on December 5th, 2008.

English Department
College of Arts & Sciences
Oklahoma State University
205 Morrill Hall
Stillwater, OK 74078
Phone: 405-744-9474
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