Scholarships, Awards & Contests
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Walter K. and Frances M. Smith Memorial Scholarship
Be a full-time undergraduate student majoring in English
Demonstrated financial need as certified by the University of Louisville’s Office of Financial Aid
Applicants must submit a personal statement (maximum length 3 pages) describing their financial need and how their academic work and extracurricular activities relate to their ultimate goal. The statement should clearly demonstrate how the applicant's educational and extracurricular experiences align with their long-term objectives and career aspirations.
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Creative Writing Contests
The Calvino Prize
The Calvino Prize is an annual fiction competition sponsored by the Creative Writing Program in the English Department of the University of Louisville. They will be awarded to outstanding pieces of fiction in the fabulist experimentalist style of Italo Calvino. Please note that these prizes are meant to encourage experimental writing, in the mode of Calvino, and are not meant to encourage merely imitative work.
The winning entrant will receive $2000 will be published in Miracle Monocle, the University of Louisville's award-winning online literary journal. One runner-up (if named by the final judge) will receive $500. All contest finalists will be posted on the website.