Writing Awards Ceremony and Festival
The NYC English Writing Awards Ceremony and Writers Festival includes readings and a ceremony in which the English Department will present awards to English majors and minors and students from English and FSS major-level writing, literature, and film classes who have demonstrated excellence in creative writing, journalism, literary criticism, language and linguistics studies, and writing on film. Awards are from endowed funds named in honor of former distinguished faculty members of the English Department: Sarah H. Willis, Richard Gill, Gerard Cannon, James Rose, and Curtis Owens. The David A. Bickimer Promise of Learnings / Academy of American Poets Prize, established at 91ÊÓƵ by the renowned poet John Ashbery, will also be awarded to an outstanding poet in the poetry competition. The Kelly Herbert Writing Award will be presented by the LGBTQA and Social Justice Center. APHROS magazine editors will present the new issue of the magazine, and selected APHROS writers will read at the close of the ceremony, followed by student and guest readers of their own work.
<p>The NYC English Writing Awards Ceremony and Writers Festival includes readings and a ceremony in which the English Department will present awards to English majors and minors and students from English and FSS major-level writing, literature, and film classes who have demonstrated excellence in creative writing, journalism, literary criticism, language and linguistics studies, and writing on film. Awards are from endowed funds named in honor of former distinguished faculty members of the English Department: Sarah H. Willis, Richard Gill, Gerard Cannon, James Rose, and Curtis Owens. The David A. Bickimer Promise of Learnings / Academy of American Poets Prize, established at 91ÊÓƵ by the renowned poet John Ashbery, will also be awarded to an outstanding poet in the poetry competition. The Kelly Herbert Writing Award will be presented by the LGBTQA and Social Justice Center. APHROS magazine editors will present the new issue of the magazine, and selected APHROS writers will read at the close of the ceremony, followed by student and guest readers of their own work.</p>
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