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Scholarships, Awards and Prizes in English
- Second semester Sophomore or first semester Junior
- Program of study must be English
- No minimum GPA, but strongly considered
- Have outstanding promise in the field of English
Award Amount: $250.00 for fall semester (non-renewable)
Nominated by faculty, selected by awards committee.
Penny Carlson Award
Professional Writing
(non-fiction writing)
The Jean Vincent Malstrom Scholarship
Eligibility Criteria:
- Second semester Junior or first semester Senior
- Major/Minor in English Education, and courses in English Language (grammar, structure, history, dialects)
- Minimum GPA 3.5
Award Amount: $500.00 for fall semester (non-renewable)
Contact the English Department for application.
The Ralph N. Miller Memorial Award
Eligibility Criteria:
- Junior
- English Major or Minor
- GPA considered, but no minimum requirements
- Intellectual curiosity, daring, forcefulness, and enthusiasm
Award Amount: $300.00 for fall semester (non-renewable)
Students nominated (or self-nominated) must submit writing samples.
The Frederick J. Rogers Memorial Shakespeare Award
Eligibility Criteria:
- Anyone enrolled in an English course in which he or she wrote a paper on Shakespeare within the last year
Award Amount: $250.00
Submit the essay, including the instructor's name, course name
and the semester it was completed.
The George Sprau Award(s) in English
Eligibility Criteria:
- Senior status; occasionally an outstanding Junior is also honored
- Superior academic records
Award Amount: $25.00-$175.00
Students are nominated by faculty.
WMU Creative Writing Awards
Eligibility Criteria:
- WMU students, graduate and undergraduate
Award Amount: Seven Awards of $50.00 and three of $100.00.
Playwriting, Poetry, Fiction, and Creative Nonfiction awards, in separate categories of graduate and undergraduate.
Submit work in drama, fiction, or creative non-fiction not exceeding 20 pages, or up to 5 poems, to the English Department , usually by the end of February.
Selected by judges for outside Western Michigan University.
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