Essay Contest: The Trollope Prize (6/1/2014)

Graduate and Undergraduate Essay Contest

The Trollope Prize

University of Kansas

Deadline: June 1, 2014

The Trollope Prize at the University of Kansas is pleased to announce that we are accepting submissions for the 2014 contest. It will be judged by: Elsie B. Michie (Louisiana State University), Tamara S. Wagner (Nanyang Technological University in Singapore), and this year’s internal judge, Ann Wierda Rowland (University of Kansas).

The Prize is pleased to be continuing its partnership with The Fortnightly Review, which will publish both the winning graduate and undergraduate essays from the 2014 contest. Additionally, theReview will award a modest honorarium to both the graduate and undergraduate winners.

The deadline for entries to both the undergraduate and graduate essay contests is June 1, 2014. Also please note that recent PhD recipients may enter the graduate contest. More detailed information on the criteria for entering the contest is available on the Trollope Prize website.

Please see our website -- http://trollopeprize.ku.edu -- for more information on the Prize and links to our social media pages. Questions may be addressed to trollopeprize@ku.edu.

CFP: British Studies Essay Contest for Undergraduates at U.S. Colleges and Universities (6/1/2011)

As you read student essays, please keep in mind the North American Conference on British Studies' annual undergrad essay prize. The NACBS awards up to six prizes of $100 each according to the following guidelines:

1. The essay must have been written while the author was a degree-seeking undergraduate at a U.S. college or university.
2. Essays written for courses or as theses must have received an A grade.
3. All nominations must be accompanied by the signature of a faculty sponsor, who must be a member of the NACBS. No individual may nominate more than one essay in any one year.
4. Essays in any field of British Studies are welcome.
5. Essays should be between 10 and 25 pages, excluding citations and references.
6. Please submit a letter of nomination (including the permanent mailing address and email contact information for the student) along with an electronic or three hard copies of the essay by June 1, 2011 to Professor Peter Hoffenberg, Department of History, University of Hawaii, 2530 Dole Street, Sakamaki Hall A203 · Honolulu, HI 96822-2283. Email: peterh@hawaii.edu.
7. For further information please feel free to contact Prof. Hoffenberg at the above address. Thank you

For more information visit http://www.nacbs.org/britstudessayendergrad.html