2009 Graduate Student Paper Awards

GRADUATE STUDENT AWARDS IN ECOCRITICISM AND ENVIRONMENTAL CREATIVE WRITING

The Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment will once again honor the best work of graduate students by presenting two awards for papers presented at the 2009 conference.

Deadline: Papers must be submitted as an email attachment by May 1, 2009.

Awards will be made in the following categories and include a prize of $100, publication in ISLE, and inclusion in the conference banquet program:

1. the best scholarly paper in ecocriticism by a graduate student presented at the 2009 conference;

2. the best work of environmental creative writing (any genre) by a graduate student presented at the 2009 conference.

In each category works will be judged by an international panel of judges.

Winners must be members of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, or an international affiliate of the association, as of May 1, 2009, and should have been enrolled as a graduate student within the previous 7 months.

The paper that is submitted for either of these awards must be essentially the same paper that is presented at the conference.  Submissions longer than 12 double-spaced pages will NOT be considered.

Submissions, and any questions, should be sent to Tom Lynch (tlynch2 [at] unl [dot] edu).  Please send in .doc or .rtf format, not .docx.