Competition Time For Lehman Creative
January 10, 2001
University Park, Pa. -- The Katey Lehman Creative Writing Awards competition, sponsored by Penn State's College of Liberal Arts and the College of Communications, is open to all Penn State undergraduates, regardless of curriculum or campus. Students entering the competition must have at least sophomore standing and be in residence during the spring 2001 semester. Winners will be announced by March 15.

The Awards are made annually in poetry, fiction and nonfiction/journalism. The prize in all three categories is $750. Application forms are available by mail or in person from the Department of English, 103 Burrowes Building, University Park, PA 16802. They are also on-line at http://www.psu.edu/dept/english/Programs/ugradhbk/kateyapp.html

Forms and manuscripts should be returned together to the Department of English 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.