The deadline for the 2021 Creative Writing Contest is Wednesday, March 24, 2021. The English Department administers writing contests to recognize fiction, creative nonfiction and poetry works by English majors and non-major undergraduates.
The department offers two awards in the fiction category. The Anne Flexner Memorial Award for Creative Writing was established by the family and friends of Anne Flexner, who graduated from Duke in 1945. There are two prizes: one for fiction and one for poetry. The Reynolds Price Fiction Award was established in memory of the distinguished novelist, essayist, story-writer, poet and public intellectual, Reynolds Price, who was a graduate of Duke and taught in the English Department for over 50 years.
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Deadline Wednesday, March 24, 2021
The Lucaci Award for Creative Nonfiction is funded by the Lucaci Endowment. It was established to encourage creative nonfiction writing and to honor George P. Lucaci, a former Duke student, who has been an active supporter of undergraduate creative writing in the English Department for many years.
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Deadline Wednesday, March 24, 2021
The departments offers three prizes to recognize a poem or group of poems: the Anne Flexner Memorial Award for Creative Writing (Poetry), the Academy of American Poets Prize, and the Terry Welby Jr. Award for Creative Writing. The Terry Welby Tyer, Jr. Award for Creative Writing: This award was established family of Terry Welby Tyler, Jr., who would have graduated with the class of 1997, to recognize and honor outstanding undergraduate poetry.
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Deadline Wednesday, March 24, 2021
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