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FOR LITERARY COMPOSITIONS IN ENGLISH
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Joseph Howe Prizes
For a poem or group of poems
First Prize $250                                           Second Prize $150

James DeMille Prizes
For an essay or short story
   $250 for an Essay                                   $250 for a Prose Short Story
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Candidates for these prizes must be registered as full-time* undergraduate or graduate students at Dalhousie University. (*Full-time: 9 credit hours per term)

To Enter:

• One typed copy of each composition must be deposited in the collection box, located in the English Department.  Please indicate on the front of each composition which prize you would like it to be considered for. 

• Compositions must be typewritten double-spaced and on one side of the paper only.

• The student’s Banner number must appear on the first page. Your name should NOT appear anywhere on the entry.

On the last page there must be a statement as to whether or not a first, second, or no prize has been previously awarded to the writer.

Rules:

• Candidates for the DeMille Prize may submit one entry in each of the essay and short story sections.

• The winner of a prize in the poetry contest is not debarred from competing in the prose contest, and vice versa.

• In the poetry contest no winner of a first prize is eligible to compete again; and no winner of a second prize is eligible for a second prize in a subsequent year.

• In the prose contest no winner of a first prize is eligible to compete again.

• Entries are adjudicated by a panel of judges appointed by the English Department.  The decision of the judges is final.

• No prize will be awarded if entries do not attain to a sufficiently high standard of merit.

• The Dalhousie Review will be offered the first option to publish winning compositions.  A copy of each winning composition is deposited in the university archives.  Contestants retain ownership of copyright.

• Submissions cannot be returned.

Copies of this notice are available at:
Department of English
Room 1186, McCain Building
Dalhousie University
6135 University Ave
Halifax, N.S. 

DEADLINE:   February 14, 2014

Clare  Murray  Fooshee Poetry  Prizes

For a poem or group of poems (maximum 5)

First Prize                               $400
Second Prize                         $300
Third Prize                             $200

Candidates must be registered as full-time or part-time
undergraduate students at Dalhousie University or King’s.

To Enter:
       
• One typed copy of each composition must be deposited in the collection box, Department of English, Dalhousie University.
• Compositions should be typed on one side of the paper only.
• Your Banner number must appear at the top of each entry.  Your name should NOT appear anywhere on the entry.

Rules:

• No winner of a first prize is eligible to compete again.
• Entries are adjudicated by a panel of judges appointed by the Department of English. 
• The decision of the judges is final.
• No prize will be awarded if entries do not attain to a sufficiently high standard of merit.
• Submissions cannot be returned.
• A copy of the winning poem will be lodged in the Clare Murray Fooshee poetry archive in the Library of Shirreff Hall.

Copies of this notice are available at:
Department of English
Room 1186, McCain Building
Dalhousie University
6135 University Ave
Halifax, N.S.

DEADLINE:   February 14, 2014