There were boxy yellow thirties apartment buildings on those Penn Avenue blocks, and the Evergreen Café, and Miss Frick's house set back behind a wrought-iron fence... It was past all this that I ran that late fall afternoon, up old Penn Avenue on the cracking cement sidewalks--past the drugstore and bar, past the old and new apartment buildings and the long dry lawn behind Miss Frick's fence.”
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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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