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Penny Pether Law & Language Scholarship Award

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:29am
University of Nevada Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law, Penny Pether Law & Language Scholarship Award Committee
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

Call for Nominations: The Penny Pether Law & Language Scholarship Award 2024

A passionate advocate for interdisciplinary scholarship in law, literature, and language, Penelope J. Pether (1957-2013) was Professor of Law at Villanova University School of Law and former Professor of Law and Director of Legal Rhetoric at the American University Washington College of Law. Her own scholarship focused not only on law, literature, and language, but also on constitutional and comparative constitutional law; legal theory, including constitutional theory; common law legal institutions, judging practices, and professional subject formation.

deBlock 2025 : deBlock; Blockchain and Crypto Academic Conference

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:29am
Blockchain Research Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 7, 2025

 

Call For PapersWe are pleased to invite experts, students, and researchers interested in blockchain and crypto assets to the First International deBlock Conference, which will take place in Tehran in May 2025.

Founders Fellowship

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:27am
The Hemingway Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

Each year the Hemingway Society accepts applications for its Lewis-Reynolds-Smith Founders Fellowship grant, and typically makes two awards of $1,000 each to support the development of a Hemingway-related project.

"Teaching Literature And Writing Studies In A Polarized Society"

updated: 
Friday, January 17, 2025 - 11:05am
New Jersey College English Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, January 30, 2025

Graduate Student Awards in Literature (literary analysis) or Pedagogy (teaching methodologies and reflections), and Writing (fiction, non-fiction, and poetry) 

Graduate students are invited to submit papers or creative pieces for the NJCEA annual Graduate Student Awards. The winners of these two awards will receive Amazon gift cards and have their papers published in The Watchung Review, the official publication of the NJCEA. Complete submissions can be sent as electronic attachments to Rachael Warmington at rkw2111@gmail.com by February 7th, 2025. 

Katherine Mansfield Society Essay Prize 2025: Katherine Mansfield's Men

updated: 
Monday, January 6, 2025 - 3:18pm
Katherine Mansfield Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 31, 2025

The Katherine Mansfield Society is pleased to announce its annual essay prize competition for 2025, open to all, on the subject of Katherine Mansfield’s Men.

The winner will receive a cash prize of £200 and the winning essay will be considered for publication in Katherine Mansfield Studies, vol. 18 (2026), the peer-reviewed yearbook of the Katherine Mansfield Society, published by Edinburgh University Press.

The distinguished panel of judges will comprise:
D R A N D R E W H A R R I S O N
University of Nottingham, UK
Chair of the Judging Panel
K A T H L E E N J O N E S
Royal Literary Fund Fellow and Biographer
D R M A R T I N G R I F F I T H S
Author and Musician

Raymond Williams Society Postgraduate Essay Prize 2025

updated: 
Monday, January 6, 2025 - 3:13pm
Raymond Williams Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

Raymond Williams Society Postgrad Essay Prize 2025

We are delighted to announce the return of the Raymond Williams Society postgraduate essay competition for its 11th year. It’s open to anyone studying for a higher degree (master’s or doctoral) in the UK or elsewhere, or who graduated no earlier than 31st January 2024. The deadline for entries is Friday 28 February 2025.

Poetry and Short Fiction Competition

updated: 
Monday, January 6, 2025 - 3:12pm
Rajpath Publisher
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025

Rajpath Publisher invites writers from around the globe to participate in our upcoming competition celebrating culture and fostering world peace through the power of words.

 

Theme: Celebration of Culture and Fostering World Peace

  • Entry Fee: $25
  • Deadline: June 15th, 2025

 

 Prizes:

  • Winner: $500 cash prize and Certificate
  • Top 30 Works: Publication in our Literary Journal (free)

 

 Submission Guidelines:

 

Call for Papers - Humanities Education and Research Association

updated: 
Tuesday, November 26, 2024 - 9:47am
Humanities Education and Research Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, February 12, 2025

HERA

Call for Papers

        Humanities Education and Research Association

Annual Conference, 12-15 March 2025

University of Houston-Downtown

Houston, Texas

 

"Humanities 2.0: Traditions & Technology"

 

Call for Applications: RSVP's Curran Fellowships

updated: 
Tuesday, November 26, 2024 - 9:42am
Research Society for Victorian Periodicals
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

The Curran Fellowships are travel and research grants intended to aid scholars studying British magazines and newspapers from the long nineteenth century in making use of primary print and archival sources. Made possible through the generosity of the late Eileen Curran, Professor Emerita of English, Colby College, and inspired by her pioneering research on Victorian periodicals, the Fellowships are awarded annually.

Richard D. Gooder Essay Prize

updated: 
Thursday, November 14, 2024 - 5:55am
Cambridge Quarterly
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 27, 2024

Submissions are invited for the Richard D. Gooder Essay Prize, offered by Cambridge Quarterly, a journal published by Oxford University Press. The Prize is open to doctoral students and those who have submitted their thesis within the last calendar year, and offers a prize of £300 and publication in the journal. 

The Cambridge Quarterly is a journal of literary and cultural criticism with a broad remit. Our focus is largely on scholarship on Anglophone literature, but we also welcome work on writing in languages other than English, as well as on film, music, theatre, television, dance, the visual arts and other cultural and artistic forms, singly or in comparison.  

Call for Applications: The Linda H. Peterson Fellowship

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:13am
Research Society for Victorian Periodicals
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 15, 2024

The Linda H. Peterson Fellowship was named after the widely influential Yale professor and longtime RSVP Board member and Vice President, Linda Peterson. The purpose of the Peterson Fellowship is to support one scholar for four full-time months to enable him or her to conduct a research project on the British periodical and newspaper press of the long nineteenth century. It was created with funds from a generous bequest to RSVP by the late Eileen Curran, pioneering researcher and Emerita Professor of English at Colby College.

Henry Miller in the 21st Century: Student Scholarships

updated: 
Friday, October 11, 2024 - 6:20pm
Nexus: The International Henry Miller Journal/The Henry Miller Memorial Library
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

The Henry Miller in the 21st Century Conference is offering five scholarships for students to help defray the costs of housing, food, and registration fees while attending this event to be held at the Asilomar Conference -Grounds, in Pacific Grove, California, from October 16, 2025 - October 19, 2025.

 

Eligibility:        This scholarship is open to any currently enrolled college student who has Junior, Senior, or Graduate Student level standing as of October 1, 2024.

 

EXTENSION: Forum Prize 2024 – ‘The Art(s) of Delight’

updated: 
Friday, August 2, 2024 - 11:53am
Forum for Modern Language Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, August 31, 2024

Entries are invited for the 2024 Forum Essay Prize, on the subject of: ‘The Art(s) of Delight’

Forum for Modern Language Studies are looking for bold, visionary and persuasive essays that use academic research to pursue innovative questions. The winning essay will be that judged by the panel to have best addressed the topic with flair, ambition and resonance.

Call for Contributions - The Locations of Value

updated: 
Monday, May 20, 2024 - 2:01pm
Call for Article - Stanford's Comparative Literature Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 15, 2024

Dibur, Stanford University’s Comparative Literature Journal, is calling for contributions for its December 2024 - January 2025 double issue.  You will find below a description of the issue’s theme as well as submission instructions. We will receive 250-word abstracts and a short bio until June 15. The deadline for submitting the accepted article for peer review is September 1st, 2024.

Issue Editors :

Olga Nedvyga (Assistant Professor, Hispanic Studies, University of Montreal)

Victoria Zurita (Visiting Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature, University of Montreal) 

The Locations of Value 

Call for Applications: VPR Expanding the Field Prize

updated: 
Wednesday, May 1, 2024 - 12:23pm
Research Society for Victorian Periodicals
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 15, 2024

Victorian Periodicals Review Expanding the Field Prize

The RSVP Expanding the Field Prize is awarded annually for an outstanding essay that diversifies the existing geographic, racial, and ethnic composition of nineteenth-century periodical studies. Submissions for this prize should do at least one of the following:

Call for Applications: The Rosemary VanArsdel Prize

updated: 
Wednesday, May 1, 2024 - 12:10pm
Research Society for Victorian Periodicals
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 15, 2024

The Rosemary VanArsdel Prize

The VanArsdel Prize is awarded annually to the best graduate student essay investigating Victorian periodicals and newspapers. The prize was established in 1990 to honor Rosemary VanArsdel, a founding member of the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals, whose groundbreaking research continues to shape the field of nineteenth-century periodical studies.

The winner of the VanArsdel Prize receives $500 and publication of their submission in Victorian Periodicals Review

Applications open May 1 and are due June 15.

Brontë Studies Early Career Research Essay Prize 2024

updated: 
Thursday, April 25, 2024 - 12:16pm
Brontë Studies/The Brontë Society
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, August 31, 2024

Brontë Studies is pleased to invite submissions for the 2024 iteration of the Brontë Studies Early Career Research Essay Prize. The prize aims to encourage new scholarship in the field of Brontë studies, recognise and reward outstanding achievement by new researchers, and support the professional development of the next generation of Brontë scholars. The prize was established in honour of Margaret Smith. She remains one of the most important Brontë scholars of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

ATDS Graduate Student Travel/Research Award

updated: 
Monday, April 1, 2024 - 12:51pm
American Theatre and Drama Society (ATDS)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 1, 2024

Purpose: To provide support for graduate student travel to present or conduct research (such as, but not limited to, archival or ethnographic) related to theatre and performance in the Americas. Awardees will receive $500, a one-year free membership to ATDS, and recognition during ATDS’s 2024 awards ceremony/annual membership meeting in Atlanta, Georgia.

Eligibility: Any student currently enrolled in a graduate program in theatre/performance studies (or related studies) is eligible. Students need not be members of ATDS at the time of application but preference will be given to ATDS members. Please note that the applicant must still be in graduate school during the proposed time of use for the award.

SAMLA Graduate Student Creative Writing Award

updated: 
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 2:11pm
South Atlantic Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 15, 2024

Each year, SAMLA is pleased to accept nominations of outstanding creative work written by graduate students. The award alternates yearly between Prose and Poetry.

The 2024 edition honors Prose, and the prize includes a $250 honorarium, publication of the winning work in the South Atlantic Review, and complimentary registration for SAMLA 96 in Jacksonville, FL.

Peter Nicholls Essay Prize 2025

updated: 
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 2:05pm
Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 6, 2025

We are pleased to announce our next essay-writing competition. The award is open to all post-graduate research students and to all early career researchers (up to five years after the completion of your PhD) who have yet to find a full-time or tenured position. The prize is guaranteed publication in Foundation in 2025.

BSSH annual Conference 2024

updated: 
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 12:00pm
British Society of Sports History
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, May 7, 2024

Call For Papers

British Society of Sports History Annual Conference

Bishop Otter Campus, University of Chichester, Chichester, UK

Thursday 22nd August 2024 – Friday 23rd August 2024

This will be an open-themed conference. Submissions based on original research are welcomed by UK and overseas scholars and can relate to any aspect of sport, physical recreation, education and culture, as considered from a historical perspective.

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Call for Applications: Patrick Leary Field Development Grant

updated: 
Thursday, February 15, 2024 - 4:28am
Research Society for Victorian Periodicals
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 15, 2024

Patrick Leary Field Development GrantDeadline: 15 March 2024 The Patrick Leary Field Development Grant is named for long-time RSVP supporter, Board member and former President, and created with funds from a generous bequest to RSVP by the late Eileen Curran, pioneering researcher and Emerita Professor of English at Colby College.

Call for Applications: Sally Mitchell Dissertation Prize

updated: 
Thursday, February 15, 2024 - 4:28am
Research Society for Victorian Periodicals
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 1, 2024

Sally Mitchell Dissertation Prize Deadline: 1 March 2024  The Sally Mitchell Dissertation Prize is awarded annually to the best Ph.D. dissertation, defended in the previous calendar year, that explores the 19th-century British periodical press (including magazines, newspapers, and serial publications of all kinds) as an object of study in its own right, not as a source of material for other historical topics. Winners of the prize receive a monetary award of $1,000.