Creative Writing Contests & Awards
See Also: Creative Writing Program
The Creative Writing Program sponsors several writing contests each spring. Endowed prizes for undergraduate writing include:
- Knickerbocker Prize in poetry for nontraditional forms
- Bain Swiggett Prize for poetry in traditional forms
- Captain Robert A. Burke Award in fiction
- Elenora Burke Award for non-fiction
Each year the College of Arts and Sciences offers the Woodruff Award for creative writing by undergraduates. Prizes sometimes run as high as $1,000 each, with up to four prizes. For information about this award, contact the College of Arts & Sciences Advising Center: 220 Ayres Hall; (865) 974-4481; www.artsci.utk.edu/advising.
Graduate students compete annually for the John C. Hodges Graduate Writing Prizes in Fiction and Poetry.
For additional information about the endowed undergraduate prizes or the graduate prizes, contact Dr. Marilyn Kallet at (865) 974-6947, or mkallet@utk.edu.