SCHOLARSHIPS and AWARDS

Wendy Barker Graduate Creative Writing Award

UTSA Graduate Students are invited to submit 5-10 pages of poetry (one poem on each page) and/or 10-15 pages short fiction or creative non-fiction (prose should be double-spaced; do not submit your only copy). Include ONE cover page with name, mailing address, e-mail address, phone number and titles of all submissions. Submit three copies of work. Your name should not be anywhere else except on the cover page.

Submissions may be placed in Dr. Catherine Kasper’s departmental mailbox or mail to:


Wendy Barker Creative Writing Award
Attn: Dr. Catherine Kasper
Department of English
University of Texas at San Antonio
One UTSA Circle
San Antonio, TX 78249-0643

Complete submission requirements and deadlines to be announced.

Winners will be asked to read at Wordfest on Friday, April 16th.

 
     

Steven G. Kellman Creative Non-Fiction Award

This year’s award amounts are $1,000 for first place award and $500 for second place. Applicants must be enrolled full time (12 credit hours) in an undergraduate degree program at UTSA, with a cumulative 3.0 GPA.

To apply, please submit a creative non-fiction essay of up to 4,000 words, a completed Application Form, and a cover letter stating work submitted (provide title) is original and previously unpublished.

Complete submission requirements and deadlines to be announced.

Winners will be asked to read at Wordfest on Friday, April 17th.

 
     

The Davidson-Shaddox Scholarship Award

To be eligible for this award, a student must have (1) declared an undergraduate major in English and have complete at least 60 hours of college credit; (2) be enrolled full time (minimum 12 credit hours); (3) must have a minimum 3.0 GPA in English courses; (4) must enroll in an upper-level creative writing course during the academic year in which the award is given. Award amounts vary and are dependent upon the number of qualified applicants and availability of funds.

To apply, please submit the following:
—Complete Davidson-Shaddox Creative Writing Scholarship Application Form and a cover letter stating work submitted (provide titles) is original and previously unpublished.
—Submission of a creative writing manuscript (poetry or prose).  

Complete submission requirements and deadlines to be announced.


     

If you would like to help fund a scholarship for creative writing students, please contact:

Wendy Barker
tel. 210.458.4374
e-mail. wendy.barker@utsa.edu




2008-2009 SCHOLARSHIPS and AWARDS RECIPIENTS


Wendy Barker Award

The Wendy Barker Award was established six years ago by Jerald Winakur, M.D., and his wife Lee Robinson Esq., (both writers themselves) in honor of Dr. Wendy Barker, who began her career at UTSA in 1982. Every year this award is given in Dr. Barker's name to a graduate student who has submitted a creative writing manuscript of exceptional quality and promise.

First Place Winner - Joseph Guyer
Second Place - Nicole Provencher


Davidson-Shaddox Scholarship Award
The Davidson-Shaddox Scholarship for undergraduate excellence in creative writing honors Brenda Davidson-Shaddox, an excellent student in our department during the 1980's, and a very talented creative writer, who "wanted to give back something of what the department had given her."

First Place Winner - Karen Moon


The Steven G. Kellman Creative Non-Fiction Award
The Steven G. Kellman Award for undergraduate creative nonfiction was endowed by the Richard and Joyce Harris Sapience Foundation. The award is named for Dr. Steven G. Kellman, UTSA’s first Ashbel Smith Professor, who joined the faculty in 1976.

Second Place Winner -
Lukas Mortier
First Place Winner - Thomas L. Kirven

Graduate Certificate Recipients
Joseph Guyer


COLFA Conference Creative Writing Award Winners

(Undergraduate)
First: Christopher Guzman
Second: Karen Moon
Third: Jodi Lynne Lerien

(Media)
First: Marco Gamboa


(Graduate)
First: Paul Noonan
Second: Michelle Grajeda
Third: JJ Henderson


2007-2008 SCHOLARSHIPS and AWARDS RECIPIENTS


Wendy Barker Award
First Place Winner - Michelle Neumann

The Davidson-Shaddox Scholarship Award
First Place Winner - Karen Moon
Second Place Winner - Marcus J. Melendez

Iron Horse Literary Review 2008 Discovered Voices Nominee
Christina L. Garza

Graduate Certificate Recipients
Amber Duncan
Meredith Norwood


COLFA Conference Creative Writing Award Winners
(Undergraduate)
First: David Martinez
Second: Brian Slaughter
Third: Jodi Lynne Ierien

(Graduate)
First: Amber Duncan
Second: Christina Garza
Third: Elaine Wong

 
 
   
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