Honors Scholarship

Wick Poetry Center Honors Scholarship

$1,000 in scholarships will be awarded for the best poetry submitted by Kent 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 Kent State University.
  • The scholarship awards are to Kent 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 Brainchild will consider publishing the winning poem in the following year's edition.

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