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| April 1 | Submit proposals for Professional Development Grants. |
| TBA | Encourage students to submit entries for the August Derleth Prize for creative writing. |
Liberal Arts Essay Competition
UW System Liberal Arts Essay Competition
Each Fall, the UW System Advisory Group on the Liberal Arts (SAGLA) invites students to write an essay on a specific theme related to their experiences pursuing a Liberal Education (according to the American Association of Colleges and Universities, a liberal education is "a philosophy of education that empowers individuals with broad knowledge and transferable skills, and a strong sense of value, ethics, and civic engagement"). The winning prize is $2,000.
Make sure to check on deadlines and submission procedures specific to your campus, as many campus deadlines are sooner than the system-level deadline.
The August Derleth Prize
What is poetry? What is fiction? What is creative nonfiction?
Let our students show us the possible answers!
Good News from Ken Grant!
The August Derleth Society has agreed to give the UW Colleges’ English Department $5,250, to endow the August Derleth/Hugo Schwenker Writing Prize. As you may know, for the last decade the August Derleth Society has funded our August Derleth Writing Prize with a $250 award to the winner. They would like to endow this activity with $5000 and to fund the 2008-2009 selection. The endowment will be set up with UW System.
The name of our August Derleth Writing Prize would change to the August Derleth/Hugo Schwenker Writing Prize. Hugo Schwenker was Derleth’s lifelong friend. He was Sim Jones in the Steve and Sim children’s novels, and his harness shop figures prominently in Derleth’s Walden West. Hugo witnessed most of Derleth’s contacts with Scribners, and the harness shop he left to the August Derleth Society is funding the Society’s generous gift. He was a member of the Freethinkers community in Sauk and is remembered by the ADS for his kindness and generosity.
The gift comes with some very small strings: We must contact the August Derleth Society with the name of the Prize winner, inform the ADS of the place and date of the awarding of the Prize, and if possible take a picture of the award being made or send out a local press release. In addition, we will have a one-time fund raising drive within the department to increase the size of the endowment.
August Derleth published roughly 150 books in a variety of genres during his lifetime—novels, short stories, poems, biographies, essays. Maxwell Perkins of Scribners was his editor for about a decade. Shortly after his death in 1971, admirers of his work, many of them professional writers (Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, Studs Terkel, Norbert Blei) formed the August Derleth Society to promote the reading of his works. In the 1980s, the Derleth Society endowed a prize on the UW Madison campus for graduate students in the English Department. In the early 1990s, UW Madison medical physics professor Herb Attix came up with the idea of extending the prize to the UW Colleges. The Derleth Society Board approved an annual $250 prize which members of the English Department administer.
Submission Guidelines
- Any UW Colleges Student enrolled in six credits or more is eligible.
- Submissions must consist of 1-5 works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and/or drama, not totaling more than 15 pages, typed and double-spaced (poetry can be single-spaced).
- Include a cover sheet with your name and address. Please do not put your name or other identifying mark on the other pages, so the work can be judged anonymously. (Include a self-addressed, stamped envelope if you want your materials returned to you.)
- Work may also be submitted electronically. If you wish to do so, work must be submitted in a Microsoft Word document, and it must be attached to an email. You must use your campus email. Additionally, the document must be formatted as described above (with cover sheet, etc.). Work submitted electronically will not be returned.
- No creative work previously published off campus is eligible for consideration.
The Derleth Prize is awarded to the student who has submitted the strongest body of work.
| Year | Recipient | Honorable Mention |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Linda Christopherson, UW-Rock | Sarajane Lieble, UW-Marathon Kimm Schaat, UW-Manitowoc |
| 2001 | Co-winners: Kristopher Kono, UW-Manitowoc Therese Heckenkamp, UW-Waukesha |
Landie Van Haren, UW-Manitowoc Dora J. Simpson, UW-Sheboygan |
| 2002 | Stacy Bogan, UW-Fox | Scott Carlson, UW-Fox Crystal Schroeder, UW-Sheboygan Rebecca Haasch, UW-Richland |
| 2003 | Scott Carlson, UW-Fox | Lea Larson, UW-Baraboo Emilie Lindemann, UW-Manitowoc |
| 2004 | Anoush Greylord, UW-Fond du Lac | |
| 2005 | Jennifer Stevens, UW-Waukesha | |
| 2006 | Jennifer Mimier, UW-Waukesha, for the short story "No Good Deed..." | |
| 2007 | Ryan Heraly, UW-Fox, for his short story “Dis/Member” | Robert Erickson, UW-Baraboo Carrie Frahm, UW-Marathon Teraesa Hermanson, UW-Waukesha |
| 2008 | Shannon Tweedie, UW-Fox, for her short story "Liquid Sugar: Unrefined" | |
| 2009 | Justin Ramm, UW-Sheboygan | |
| 2010 | Mai Der Yang, UW-Fox for "Hunger" |
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