Honors Scholarship
Wick Poetry Center Honors Scholarship
$1,000 in scholarships will be awarded for the best poetry submitted by Â鶹ÊÓƵ 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 Â鶹ÊÓƵ.
- The scholarship awards are to Â鶹ÊÓƵ 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’s 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 “Offshootâ€
Finalist: DJ Johnson
2023 Winner
- Hannah Fender for "South"
2022 Winner and Finalists
- Sophia Swengel for “Future Shockâ€
Finalists: Anastasia Simms, Gabrielle Wheeler, Wren Baddour, Patrick Moorman, Olivia Wachtel, Olivia Farina
2021 Winners and Finalists
- 1st Place: Olivia Meyer for “You Are Who I Loveâ€
- 2nd Place: Olivia Farina for “If old white men wrote more poems about flowersâ€
- 3rd Place: Gabriella Clingman: for “Messenger of Joyâ€
Finalists: Clara Britton, Haley Rixon, Angelina DiFranco, Olivia Wachtel, Christian Zupsic