Applications Sought For Lehman Creative Writing Awards
Jan. 13, 2000
University Park, Pa. – Feb. 1 is the deadline for submitting entries in the 2000 Katey Lehman Creative Writing Awards Contest. Sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts and the College of Communications, the competition is open to all Penn State undergraduates, regardless of curriculum or campus, who have at least sophomore standing and who will be in residence during the spring 2000 semester. Winners will be announced by March 15.
The Katey Lehman Creative Writing Awards are made annually in poetry, fiction and nonfiction/journalism. The prize in all three categories is $750. Application forms are obtainable by mail or in person from the Department of English, 103 Burrowes Building, University Park, PA 16802 or on line at http://www.psu.edu/dept/english/Programs/ugradhbk/kateyapp.html. Forms and manuscripts should be returned together to that office.
Entrants may submit no more than four poems, one short story or one nonfiction/journalism article in each category. Each submission must be made in a plain manila envelope with the application attached to the outside. All manuscripts must be typed and double-spaced, and the applicant’s name should not appear anywhere on the manuscript, which will be assigned a number and judged anonymously by a panel of nationally known writers and scholars.
A 1942 graduate of Penn State, Katey Lehman was an Honors student in English and Journalism, a reporter for the Daily Collegian and, along with her husband Ross, a columnist for the Centre Daily Times for 26 years. The awards are made possible by an endowment from Katey’s sister, Mary Jean Popp Smeal, and her brother-in-law, Frank P. Smeal.
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Contact: Stephen Grecco, associate professor of English and comparative literature, at (814) 863-0595 or at
