Honors Scholarship
Wick Poetry Center Honors Scholarship
$1,000 in scholarships will be awarded for the best poetry submitted by 天天吃瓜 Honors students. Winners will be chosen in collaboration with the Wick Poetry Center.
Guidelines
- These awards are nonrenewable. Undergraduates may reapply.
- The competition is open to any Honors undergraduate currently enrolled at 天天吃瓜.
- The scholarship awards are to 天天吃瓜 only.
- All entries must be original and may be simultaneously submitted to other publications.
- Each entrant may submit one poem only.
- The poem should be no more than 100 lines long.
- The poet鈥檚 name should not appear on the poem.
- In the cover letter section of this form, poets must write their name, address, email and telephone number.
Entries must be submitted between November 1 and April 1.
Winners are notified each May.
Additionally, the honors literary and arts magazine will consider publishing the winning poem in the following year's edition.
2024 Winner and Finalists
- Isabella Kaufman for 鈥淥ffshoot鈥
Finalist: DJ Johnson
2023 Winner
- Hannah Fender for "South"
2022 Winner and Finalists
- Sophia Swengel for 鈥淔uture Shock鈥
Finalists: Anastasia Simms, Gabrielle Wheeler, Wren Baddour, Patrick Moorman, Olivia Wachtel, Olivia Farina
2021 Winners and Finalists
- 1st Place: Olivia Meyer for 鈥淵ou Are Who I Love鈥
- 2nd Place: Olivia Farina for 鈥淚f old white men wrote more poems about flowers鈥
- 3rd Place: Gabriella Clingman: for 鈥淢essenger of Joy鈥
Finalists: Clara Britton, Haley Rixon, Angelina DiFranco, Olivia Wachtel, Christian Zupsic