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Purdue NewsFebruary 20, 1998
The competition is sponsored by the Department of English and the School of Liberal Arts.
Cash and bookstore gift-certificate prizes will be awarded to undergraduate students in creative writing and expository prose categories. Creative writing categories are poetry; screenplay; drama; novel-in-progress; children's literature; and science fiction. Expository categories are: African, African-American or black literature; business writing; English as a second language; ethnographic essay; foreign language literature; journalism; literary criticism; Medieval studies; rhetoric and composition; technical writing; and women's literature.
Kneale Awards will be presented to the best undergraduate essays from each of the following categories: Bible as literature; cultural criticism; economics or government; film criticism; history; informal essay; journalism; literary criticism; philosophy; science; Shakespeare; third-world literature; women's studies; and the best set of three papers originally written for English 101 or 103.
This year will mark the introduction of Kneale Awards for graduate entries in the following categories: poetry; fiction; literary criticism; and pedagogy.
All entries should be turned in to the English Department office, Room 324, Heavilon Hall. Except for novel-in-progress submissions, no entries will be returned. Students may submit up to three entries. A complete list of rules is available on posters in Heavilon Hall, Stewart Center, the Purdue Memorial Union and the libraries.
Winners will be announced at the Literary Awards Banquet on Tuesday, April 14. Speaker for the event will be novelist and short-story writer Richard Ford, whose most recent novel, "Independence Day," won the Pulitzer Prize in 1996.
Questions about the competition may be directed to Thomas Ohlgren, professor of English and chairman of the literary awards committee, (765) 494-3740.
CONTACT: Tom Andrews, associate professor of English, (765) 496-2804.
Purdue News Service: (765) 494-2096; e-mail, purduenews@purdue.edu
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