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The August Derleth Prize
The Society has created a permanent endowment in the University of Wisconsin Foundation that funds an annual August Derleth Prize presented to the most talented writers among the graduate students in the English Department at the University .
What is poetry? What is fiction? What is creative nonfiction?
Let our students show us the possible answers!
Please publicize the 2007 UW Colleges August Derleth Creative Writing Contest. As luck would have it, the submission deadline is Friday, April 13th. Forward, share, post, and pass the flyer.
Sincerely,
Deborah Bernhardt, Joel Friederich, Bill Gillard, Richard Krupnow, and Alayne Peterson (2007 UW Colleges August Derleth Prize Committee)
August Derleth published roughly 150 books in a variety of genres during his lifetime—novels, short stories, poems, biographies, essays. Maxwell Perkins of Scribners was his editor for about a decade. Shortly after his death in 1971, admirers of his work, many of them professional writers (Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, Studs Terkel, Norbert Blei) formed the August Derleth Society to promote the reading of his works. In the 1980s, the Derleth Society endowed a prize on the UW Madison campus for graduate students in the English Department. In the early 1990s, UW Madison medical physics professor Herb Attix came up with the idea of extending the prize to the UW Colleges. The Derleth Society Board approved an annual $250 prize which members of the English Department administer.
Submission Guidelines
- Any UW Colleges Student enrolled in six credits or more is eligible.
- Submissions must consist of 1-5 works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and/or drama, not totaling more than 15 pages, typed and double-spaced (poetry can be single-spaced).
- Include a cover sheet with your name and address. Please do not put your name or other identifying mark on the other pages, so the work can be judged anonymously. (Include a self-addressed, stamped envelope if you want your materials returned to you.)
- Work may also be submitted electronically. If you wish to do so, work must be submitted in a Microsoft Word document, and it must be attached to an email. You must use your campus email. Additionally, the document must be formatted as described above (with cover sheet, etc.). Work submitted electronically will not be returned.
- No creative work previously published off campus is eligible for consideration.
The Derleth Prize is awarded to the student who has submitted the strongest body of work. Past recipients are below:
2000 Linda Christopherson of UW Rock Honorable Mentions: Sarajane Lieble of UW Marathon and Kimm Schaat of UW Manitowoc2001 Co-winners Kristopher Kono of UW Manitowoc and Therese Heckenkamp of UW Waukesha Honorable Mentions: Landie Van Haren of UW Manitowoc and Dora J. Simpson of UW Sheboygan2002 Stacy Bogan of UW-Fox Honorable Mentions: Scott Carlson of UW Fox, Crystal Schroeder of UW Sheboygan,
and Rebecca Haasch of UW Richland2003 Scott Carlson of UW Fox Honorable Mentions: Lea Larson of UW Baraboo and Emilie Lindemann of UW Manitowoc2004 Anoush Greylord of UW Fond du Lac 2005 Jennifer Stevens of UW Waukesha 2006 Jennifer Mimier of UW Waukesha for the short story "No Good Deed..." 2007 Ryan Heraly of UW-Fox Valley The August Derleth Prize
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