Department of English
Prizes
Barbara Banks Brodsky Prizes
Topics must meet the approval of the English Department’s Committee on Prizes and Premiums.
Real World Writing
Awarded to a full-time junior or senior for best essay of 3,000 words or less in a nonfiction topic: literary journalism, memoir, or narrative based on travel, science, history, or cultural critique. Can be a collection of brief pieces or one long piece.
English
Awarded to a full-time junior or senior for the best essay on 20th-century English literature.
Deadline
December 2nd
Prizes
1st Prize $800
Rose Low Rome Memorial Prize
For the best poem or poems by a currently enrolled Brown undergraduate.
Deadline
December 2nd
Prizes
1st Prize $150
2nd Prize $50
Arlene Rome Ten Eyck and Peter H. Ten Eyck Prize
For the best essay on literary theory by a currently enrolled Brown undergraduate.
Deadline
December 2nd
Prizes
1st Prize $150
2nd Prize $50
David Rome Prize
For the best lyric essay by a currently enrolled Brown undergraduate. This form includes essays written in poetical or experimental forms that emphasize artfulness.
Deadline
December 2nd
Prizes
1st Prize $150
2nd Prize $50
Rules
- One entry per competition. A separate entry form must be completed for each competition.
- Your name should not appear anywhere on the manuscript.
- The university reserves the right to withhold any award.
- Manuscripts will be read by a committee of faculty members in the English Department. The committee's decisions will be final.
- Essays that have previously received an English Department award are not eligible.
No hard copies or late submissions will be accepted.