For more information on any of these prizes please call 215-898-1696 or email writing@writing.upenn.edu.
Administered by: Former students of Nora Magid in collaboration with CPCW
Amount: Mentorship + $5000 stipend
Genre: Non-fiction
The Nora Magid Mentorship Prize is given each year to a senior at the
University of Pennsylvania who shows exceptional ability and promise in
non-fiction writing and editing, and who would benefit most from combined
mentorship of Nora's network of former students and their colleagues. The
prize is $2000, which is to be used as a stipend for transportation, lodging
and meals as the student travels to New York, Washington and elsewhere to
develop professional contacts at magazines, newspapers and publishing
houses. Based on a plan submitted with the prize application, the winner
will visit those Nora-ites and their colleagues who seem most able to assist
in the student's professional goals. For more information please visit
http://www.NoraPrize.com or CPCW's
Nora Magid Mentorship Prize page.
A major goal of the College of Arts & Sciences is to promote advanced research, mentorship and apprenticeship experiences especially during the student's junior and senior years. CPCW's writing apprenticeships project has been created to meet this goal. Each semester the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing will sponsor several writing apprenticeships. Several members of the faculty affiliated with Penn's writing programs will sponsor one apprenticeship each. The apprenticeships are one full semester in duration. Students chosen to be writing apprentices will receive one course credit (English 199). Sophomores, juniors and seniors are eligible to apply, although juniors and seniors will be given strong preference. For more information, please visit: http://writing.upenn.edu/awards/apprenticeships.php.
Administered by: The Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing
Amount: $3000
Mali Heled Kinberg (C'95) has created this endowed fund at the Kelly Writers House that, each summer, will enable a student to travel for the purpose of conducting the research that will lead to a significant writing project. The winner of the Heled Travel Grant will receive $3,000 toward the costs of travel for research. The travel and research will be conducted during the summer (between mid-May and the end of August). Candidates who propose a trip of longer rather than shorter duration will be given priority, and candidates who propose to travel beyond North America will also get priority, but any travel plan--to any place, of any length--will receive serious consideration based on the quality of the project. For more information, please visit: http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/involved/awards/heled.
The Kelly Writers House offers a number of prizes to help people complete creative projects. Do you have a cool creative project that needs a bit of funding? Are you trying to complete a manuscript this summer but also need to pay the rent? Do you have an event in mind for the KWH? Are you a graduating senior or recent alum who wants to stay connected to the KWH community? Consider applying for a KWH prize! All applications require cover letter and project description; most also request a writing sample. Visit the KWH Awards and Prizes page to learn more.