Department Scholarships, Prizes and Awards

Several scholarships, as well as a number of writing prizes for English majors and non-majors, are awarded each year.  Information on the criteria for awards and scholarships and application deadlines is available in the English Department.  The following prizes may be awarded: 

• The Ayme Eichler Memorial Scholarship for poetry by an English major
• The Elizabeth Pines Ergas Prize for post-modern fiction
• The Neal Feld Memorial Writing Prize, to a junior English major, for excellence in writing fiction and/or poetry
• The Harry Glick Prize for short fiction
• The Robert Greenburg Memorial Prize for best performance by a student in the English Honors Program
• The Clinton Oliver Memorial Prize for the single best work – scholarly, critical, and/or creative – that relates to the African-American experience
• The Sue Shanker Scholarship for a gifted student, majoring in English, who has returned to college after a hiatus
• The Norman Silverstein and Ella Peiser Awards for excellence in English studies
• The Leo Statsky Award for an essay on the immigrant experience
• The Betty Zolot Scholarship in creative writing
• Composition Prizes for work done in English 110 and/or 120.