The railroad tracks linking this bridge on Braddock with the one over Homewood Avenue separate Homewood from the once predominantly white neighborhoods along its southern edge. When we lived on Finance Street those tracks marked one border of my world...my sleep was couched in the rhythm of trains. Some nights I'd lie awake waiting for the crash of steel wheels, for the iron fist to grab me and shake me, for the long, echoing silence afterward to carry me away.”
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Undergraduate Writing Awards
The Writing Program administers four undergraduate writing awards: The Melissa Difatta Undergraduate Nonfiction Award, The Taube Award in Fiction, and the Academy of American Poets Undergraduate Award. Scroll down for award guidelines. See the Award Winners page for previous prize recipients.
The Melissa Difatta Undergraduate Nonfiction Award
Prizes totaling $200 will be awarded for a first, second, and third place nonfiction manuscript written by an undergraduate student enrolled in a nonfiction course at Pitt during the 2018-19 academic year.
The Taube Award in Fiction
Prizes totalling $1000 will be awarded for a first, second and third place fiction piece written by a Pitt undergraduate student.
Academy of American Poets Undergraduate Award
A $100 prize, plus a $50 membership from the Academy of American Poets, will be awarded for a poem written by a Pitt undergraduate student. Students may submit up to three poems.
To submit your work, go to
pittwritingcontests.submittable.com.
For more information, contact Andrea
Laurion: arl117@pitt.edu; 412-624-6508
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