English Department Prizes and Awards 2026: General prizes

EnglishEnglish Department Prizes and Awards 2026: General prizes

All submissions are due by 5pm, Friday February 27th, 2026.

1Competition Rules > 2Submission Form > 3Prizes and Awards (creative writing) > 4Review Your Entry
RULES FOR SUBMISSION

NOTE: READ THE FOLLOWING RULES AND RESTRICTIONS CLOSELY IN ORDER TO DETERMINE ELIGIBILITY (IN ADDITION TO THE SPECIFIC ELIGIBILITY RULES FOR EACH PRIZE). FAILURE TO FOLLOW THE OUTLINED PROTOCOL MAY RESULT IN FORFEITED PRIZE MONEY.

APPLICANTS MUST COMPLY WITH BURSAR AND FINANCIAL AID PROTOCOL OUTLINED BELOW.

BURSAR ELIGIBILITY: In order to be eligible for prize money a student must not have an outstanding balance with the college. However, if the student has an outstanding balance, award money may be applied to the outstanding balance. If prize money won exceeds the amount owed to the college, the student will receive a check for the remaining balance.

FINANCIAL AID ELIGIBILITY: All students currently enrolled must have filled out a FAFSA in order to be eligible. If your FAFSA form is not up to date, please fill out a form for the 2025-2026 academic year immediately.

STUDENTS WHO HAVE NOT FILED A FAFSA FORM MAY DO SO BY GOING TO www.FAFSA.ed.gov. THE HUNTER CODE IS 002689

EXCEPTIONS FOR GRADUATING STUDENTS: Graduating students submitting to the Helen Gray Cone Fellowship, The Blanche Colton Williams Fellowship, and The Katherine H. Gatch/Marion W. Witt are not required to fill out a FAFSA. However for all other awards students must have an up to date FAFSA whether or not they are graduating during the 2025-2026 school year.

STUDENTS WHO ARE NOT ELIGIBLE TO RECEIVE PRIZE MONEY ARE STILL ELIGIBLE TO RECEIVE AWARDS. SUCH STUDENTS WHO WIN AWARDS WILL NOT RECEIVE PRIZE MONEY.

OTHER RULES:
• Applicants must include a copy of their Hunter unofficial transcript with the submission materials for each prize they apply for.
• All entries must be typed, original work written between February 2025 and February 2026
• Plagiarism and/or use of AI results in disqualification and disciplinary action.
• Students may enter as many competitions as they wish, and they may submit more than one entry in a single competition.
• The same work, in whole or in part, may not be submitted in more than one competition. Multiple submissions of the same work in other competitions will result in disqualification in all competitions.
• If the work has been published, the name and date of the publication must be included on the application form
• If the work has previously won a prize, award, or fellowship, outside of Hunter or at Hunter, the name and date of the prize should be included on the application form.
• In the likely event of a tie or multiple winners for each category, the committee will divide the amount of prize money among winners.
• Please note, there is a different link for General prizes and for Creative Writing prizes. Note also that some prizes listed under General prizes invite creative writing submissions (see General Prizes #2, #4, #5, #6, #7, #9, & #10).
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