The William Styron Creative Writing Award

The Styron Creative Writing Prize is awarded each spring in recognition of an outstanding work of creative writing. All Duke juniors and seniors are eligible to submit work for consideration. Projects may be any genre and take any form (audio/video, digital media, etc.), but must include a substantial creative writing component.

Deadline: June 15^th, 2025
Prize: $1500

For more details: https://library.duke.edu/research/awards/styron

Eligibility for both awards:

• You must be a Duke undergraduate student
• You may submit multiple, different projects in a given year but each project should be submitted individually with an accompanying application cover sheet
• Submitted projects must have been written during the current academic year
• Projects are judged based on quality and originality of writing
• At this time submissions must be written in English
• No minimum or maximum length required