Aetna Chair of Writing

Writing Contests and Grants

Guidelines: Undergraduate students may submit one work of creative nonfiction, previously unpublished, cleanly typed, double-spaced, one-side only. Work may have been written for a course or independently. The author's name should not appear on the manuscript itself, but should appear on a cover sheet, which must say "Aetna Undergraduate Nonfiction Prize" and list author's name, address, phone number, e-mail address, social security number, and semester standing. Submit to Aetna Undergraduate Nonfiction Award, CLAS 208, 215 Glenbrook Road, Storrs, CT 06269-4025. Undergraduate submissions will automatically be eligible for publication in the Long River Review.

Deadline: March 24, 2003

Award: $250

Aetna Creative Nonfiction Writing Awards Ceremony

April 3, 2003

Guest reader: Phillip Lopate

Aetna Creative Works in Progress Grants

Thanks to the support of the Aetna endowment, the Creative Writing Program is able to offer two grants to provide financial assistance to students with a worthy work in progress.Grant recipients will be selected competitively based on a formal proposal and a portfolio of creative writing.Two grants will be available each year:the Aetna Graduate Grant in Creative Writing ($2,000), and the Aetna Undergraduate Grant in Creative Writing ($1,000).

These grants may be used:

• to allow the writer time off from work to develop a project, or
• to assist the writer in traveling for research related to the work in progress, or
• to support the writer's participation in a workshop that will focus on the work in progress.

Application Deadline: February 14, 2003

Eligibility: All currently enrolled University of Connecticut students are eligible to apply.

Judging: A committee, composed of the Creative Writing Program Director and two other faculty members, will judge applications based on a proposal and a sample of the work in progress.

Conditions of Award: Recipients must use their grant in the twelve months following the award. Recipients will be asked to submit a brief project status report at the end of the grant period.

Each application packet should include:

• A cover sheet stating applicant's name, project title, applicant's student status (graduate or undergraduate) and year of study, contact information including e-mail, and social security number.
• A 2-3-page proposal detailing the project and explaining specifically how the grant will assist in bringing the project closer to completion.
• A sample of the work in progress. Submit up to 10 pages of poetry, 20-25 pages of fiction, 20-25 pages of creative nonfiction, or 20-25 pages of a script. Do not exceed these page limits, please.

You may turn application packets in to Rose Kovarovics in the English Department office.

Aetna Graduate Creative Nonfiction Prize

Both graduate and undergraduate students at the University of Connecticut main and branch campuses are eligible.

Guidelines: Graduate writers are eligible to submit essays of no longer than 5000 words. The author's name should not appear on the manuscript itself, but should appear on a cover sheet, which must say "Aetna Graduate Nonfiction Prize" and list author's name, address, phone number, e-mail address, and social security number. Submit to Aetna Graduate Nonfiction Award, CLAS 208, 215 Glenbrook Road, Storrs, CT 06269-4025.

Deadline: March 24, 2003

Aetna Creative Nonfiction Writing Awards Ceremony

April 3, 2003

Guest reader: Phillip Lopate

Aetna Graduate Teaching Awards

One or more cash awards from the Aetna Foundation for outstanding teaching of composition by English graduate students, through annual competition. Amount and number determined annually by award committee of English TAs and faculty. 2002-03 Chair: Anita Duneer aduneer@hotmail.com .

Aetna Endowment Travel Awards

Ever semester the Aetna Endowment can provide between ten and twelve awards of $450 (maximum) each for full-time graduate students attending meetings in the U.S., Canada, or outside North America, focusing on rhetoric and composition or creative writing. Among these are NCTE, CCC, WPA, AWP, the Penn State Rhetoric Conference, the UNH conference on teaching writing, regional Writing Centers and Writing Tutors conferences, and other local and regional meetings, such as NEATE, CCTE, and others. Priority will be given to program participants.

University regulations require advance authorization if reimbursement is to be forthcoming. Please obtain this from Lori Corsini-Nelson, Aetna Specialist, in CLAS 136 (486-1124), and save receipts for anything requiring reimbursement, including conference registration, room, meals, and transportation expenses, such as gas, tolls, airfare, etc.

Aetna Creative Works in Progress Grants

Thanks to the support of the Aetna endowment, the Creative Writing Program is able to offer two grants to provide financial assistance to students with a worthy work in progress.Grant recipients will be selected competitively based on a formal proposal and a portfolio of creative writing.Two grants will be available each year:the Aetna Graduate Grant in Creative Writing ($2,000), and the Aetna Undergraduate Grant in Creative Writing ($1,000).

These grants may be used:

• to allow the writer time off from work to develop a project, or
• to assist the writer in traveling for research related to the work in progress, or
• to support the writer's participation in a workshop that will focus on the work in progress.

Application Deadline: February 14, 2003

Eligibility: All currently enrolled University of Connecticut students are eligible to apply.

Judging: A committee, composed of the Creative Writing Program Director and two other faculty members, will judge applications based on a proposal and a sample of the work in progress.

Conditions of Award: Recipients must use their grant in the twelve months following the award. Recipients will be asked to submit a brief project status report at the end of the grant period.

Each application packet should include:

• A cover sheet stating applicant's name, project title, applicant's student status (graduate or undergraduate) and year of study, contact information including e-mail, and social security number.
• A 2-3-page proposal detailing the project and explaining specifically how the grant will assist in bringing the project closer to completion.
• A sample of the work in progress. Submit up to 10 pages of poetry, 20-25 pages of fiction, 20-25 pages of creative nonfiction, or 20-25 pages of a script. Do not exceed these page limits, please.

You may turn application packets in to Rose Kovarovics in the English Department office.