 Awards and Opportunities
The English Department prides itself on offering its students a number of great opportunities to perform funded research -- whether on their own, or in concert with a faculty member.
In addition to a number of annual literary prizes, we also sponsor alumni-funded awards and national competitions for our English majors. Scroll down for some more information about the opportunities available to you at Lewis and Clark:
Awards and Opportunities
Also, find out about Poetry and Creative Writing Contests.
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2009 Dixon Award Information
Student NewsAcademy of American Poets Prize
Stephanie Elliott is the winner of the 2008 Academy of American Poets Prize for her poem, "What the Tattoo Artist Said." Corey Van Landigham received honorable mention for her poem, "Sturgeon."
The Academy of American Poets is a national non-profit organization devoted to stimulating interest in American Poetry through fellowships and public programs. The Poetry Prize Contest is held at 177 undergraduate institutions annually. The results are also reported to the Academy and all the winners will be listed in the summer issue of the Academy's journal, American Poet. Baum Award Winner - Charles Macquarie
The 2009 Jerry Baum Award winner is Charles Macquarie for his senior seminar paper:
"The Self that Springs from the Shadows: Irresponsibility, Lighting, and the Redefinition of Selfhood in Virginia Woolf's 'Street Haunting.'"
The Jerry Baum Award was established in 2007 by the Department of English, alumni, family, and friends to honor the memory of R. Jerold (Jerry) Baum, former professor of English. Recipient is a senior whose senior seminar paper addresses the relationship between literature and history and is recognized as outstanding by the English faculty.
Dixon Award Winner- Marley Badolati
Junior English major Marley Badolati received the 2009 Hillary and Adam Dixon Award. The $2500 Award is granted annually to a junior English major wishing to conduct research associated with their English studies. Badolati will use the funds to travel to Massachusetts to study the influence of Robert Lowell on the poets Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. Applications for the 2010 award will be available in November. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Faculty NewsPodcast: Professor Szybist Earns National Acclaim for Poetry. click links below: Lewis & Clark Newsroom See Mary Szybist on Lewis & Clark front page  Mary Szybist Wins Two Prestigious Awards: the 12th Annual Witter Bynner Fellowship and NEA Grant
Lewis & Clark College assistant professor of English, Mary Szybist, and Christina Davis from Boston won the prestigious 2009 Witter Bynner Fellowships. They were chosen by the Poet Laureate Kay Ryan who will introduce them on Feb. 26 at the Library of Congress. Szybist will read her poem at 6:45 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 26, in the Montpelier Room on the sixth floor of the Library's James Madison Building, 101 Independence Ave., S.E., Washington, D.C. 20540.
Szybist and Davis each will receive a $10,000 fellowship. Ryan said, "Mary Szybist's lovely musical touch is light and exact enough to catch the weight and grind of love. This is a hard paradox to master as she does." For further information on Witter Bynner fellowships and the poetry program at the Library of Congress, visit http://www.loc.gov/ poetry/.
Mary Szybist also received a prestigious National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Literature Fellowship in creative writing. The highly competitive fellowships of $25,000 each are given to published creative writers of exceptional talent, encouraging the production of new work and allowing writers the time and means to write. One of the foremost awards in the literary field, the NEA grant will support Szybist's work on her second book of poems, tentatively titled Incarnadine.
“A grant like this is a boost of adrenaline to the writing process,” said Szybist. “As I’ve worked on my current manuscript for the last few years, I have cycled through periods of faith and doubt, both about the poems and the project as a whole. To have the NEA select my work for this distinction is a great gift of validation, and I am eager to return to my manuscript with a renewed sense of vigor and excitement.”
Szybist's poetry has appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review, The Iowa Review, The Kenyon Review, Poetry, Tin House, and Best American Poetry 2008. Her first book, Granted, was named one of the top ten books of poetry in 2003 by Library Journal. Also that year, Szybist was a finalist for the National Book Circle Critic's Award in Poetry.
Professor Gross Wins Graves Award
Assistant Professor Karen Gross has won an Arnold L. and Lois S. Graves Award for 2007-08. The award is given in alternate years to a young professor teaching at a liberal arts college in the West. While it recognizes excellence in teaching the humanities, the money accompanying the Award is intended to assist with research. Professor Gross' current scholarly project is a study on Chaucer and his Italian sources (Dante, Boccaccio, and Petrarch), and the intellectual exchanges between England and Italy during the later Middle Ages. She will use the money to attend a conference in Swansea, UK to present part of this study. Professor Pritchard's Book Published
Will Pritchard's book Outward Appearances: The Female Exterior in Restoration London was published in December 2007 by Bucknell University Press. The Associated University Presses said, "Outward Appearances: The Female Exterior in Restoration London elucidates early modern attitudes towards women's public display. Will Pritchard presents a cultural study that draws on a wide range of literary and non-literary texts from the years 1650-1700 to revisit the sites where women appeared most prominently: the playhouse, the park, and the New Exchange (a shopping arcade in the Strand). He offers a fresh context for the study of Restoration literature and a provocative argument about women and public space. An engaging academic study, Outward Appearances enhances and historicizes our understanding of the dynamics of gender and looking in the Restoration and will be appreciated by literary scholars, historians, and cultural theorists alike." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Alumni News
Elizabeth Miller '05 has had one of her short stories, "The Saltwater Girl," accepted for publication in the national literary magazine, Pleiades. Are you an alum with news you would like to share? Please email english@lclark.edu with details. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archives2006-07 Awards & Announcements 2005-06 Awards & Announcements 2004-05 Awards & Announcements 2000-01 Awards & Announcements
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