Applications are now being accepted for the 2022-2023 Kevin T. Early Memorial Scholarship, a poetry prize open to first-year undergraduates in all majors. It awards $2000 to a student with freshman standing at UIUC for the 2022-2023 school year.
The deadline for application is January 31, 2023.
For consideration, students must submit 5 poems via email to John Dudek, the Associate Director of Creative Writing in the Department of English (Jdudek4@illinois.edu). The complete submission should not exceed 5 pages (So 1 poem to a page). Submissions should be attached to the email as .docx (Word) files.
The subject line of the email should read: “EARLY PRIZE SUBMISSION: Last name.”
The body of the email should include the student's name, address, phone number, e-mail, UIN, and the titles of the poems. The name should not appear on the entry file itself.
If you have any questions, please email John Dudek at jdudek4@illinois.edu.
