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Wick Poetry Center Honors Scholarship

$1,000 in scholarships will be awarded for the best poetry submitted by ����ֱ�� State University 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 ����ֱ�� State University.
• The scholarship awards are to ����ֱ�� State University 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 “Offshoot”

Finalist: DJ Johnson

2023 Winner 

• Hannah Fender for "South"

2022 Winner and Finalists

• Sophia Swengel for “Future Shock”

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 Love”
• 2nd Place: Olivia Farina for “If old white men wrote more poems about flowers”
• 3rd Place: Gabriella Clingman: for “Messenger of Joy”

Finalists: Clara Britton, Haley Rixon, Angelina DiFranco, Olivia Wachtel, Christian Zupsic