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 15, 2023 and April 1, 2024.
• Winners were notified in May, 2024.

Additionally, the regional honors literary and arts magazine Brainchild 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