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In 2005, the creation of the Iris N. Spencer Poetry Awards was announced at the WCU Poetry Conference. [2] Kean W. Spencer provided the initial endowment of $250,000. [3] Though not a poet himself, Spencer did win the prestigious Hopwood Award for poetry from the University of Michigan as a young man. [2]
The William Carlos Williams Award is given out by the Poetry Society of America for a poetry book published by a small press, non-profit, or university press.. The award is endowed by the family and friends of Geraldine Clinton Little, a poet and author of short stories and former vice-president of the society. [1]
Donald Justice Poetry Prize – sponsored by the Iris N. Spencer Poetry Awards at the West Chester University Poetry Center Dwarf Stars Award – annual award presented by the Science Fiction Poetry Association to the author of the best horror, fantasy, or science fiction poem of ten lines or fewer published in the previous year.
Announcement of the Laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature, one of the world's richest literary prizes, at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm (2008). Many literary awards give significant remunerations. This is a list of active literary awards from around the world with a prize of at least US$100,000 or equivalent.
The Donald Hall Prize for Poetry is an award of $5,000 and publication. The Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction is an award of $5,000 and publication. Winners in the novel and creative nonfiction categories receive a $2,000 cash honorarium and publication.
The Poetry Out Loud Recitation Contest was created in 2006 by the National Endowment for the Arts under chairman Dana Gioia and The Poetry Foundation.The contest seeks to promote the art of performing poetry, by awarding cash prizes to participating schools.
A. List of winners of the Academy of American Poets fellowship; Academy of American Poets; Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize; Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry
The Glascock Poetry Prize is awarded to the winner of the annual Kathryn Irene Glascock Intercollegiate Poetry Contest at Mount Holyoke College.The "invitation-only competition is sponsored by the English department at Mount Holyoke and counts many well-known poets, including Sylvia Plath and James Merrill, among its past winners" [1] and is thought to be the "oldest intercollegiate poetry ...