The Newsom Awards in Poetry and Fiction: The Newsom Awards in Poetry and Fiction are given for the best student work in each genre.  These are financed through a fund named for Roy Newsom, a former president of the College.   The deadline for entries is usually in late February of each year.  All current students are eligible, and guidelines for submission are given below and are available in the English Department office.  Please consider submitting your work!  Contact Marilyn Chavez, the English Department secretary, at mchavez1@whittier.edu or X4253 with questions. 

Rules for the Newsom Awards in Poetry and Fiction "The Newsom Awards in Poetry and Fiction":

The English Department is pleased to announce the annual Newsom Awards in Poetry and Fiction, and invite all interested Whittier students to submit their poetry and/or fiction for consideration by the judges. We thank Dean Gotsch and Roy and Alice Newsom for making the contest possible.  

1.  Only Whittier students currently enrolled may enter the contest. 

2.  Students may not re-submit work that has previously been awarded the Newsom Award. 

3.  Students wishing to enter the contest should submit their entry (or entries) to the secretary of the English Department by the deadline of Wednesday, April 11^th. 

4.  For the fiction contest, students should submit no more than one short story of no more than 15 pages, double-spaced 

5.  For the poetry contest, students should submit an entry of between one and three poems, and the entry should be no more than five pages in length altogether. 

6.  The same student may enter both the fiction contest and the poetry contest. 

7.  Students may not enter more than one entry per genre. 

8.  All contest entries should be anonymous (the author's name should not appear on any of the pages).   

9. For each entry, the student should fill out a 3 x 5 card listing their name, box number, email address, phone number, and the title of the short story, or the title(s) of the poem(s).  Then, Tina will assign a number to the entry, which she will mark both on the card and on the entry. 

10.  The winning entries will be published in the Literary Review. 

11.  The judge of each contest will have three hundred dollars to disburse to prize-winners, and may divide that amount in any way that he or she likes, though the usual method is to award $150 to the first prize winner, $100 to the second prize winner, $50 to the third prize winner.                                                                                                                    

12. Contest winners will be announced later in the Spring, and will be celebrated at Convocation.