The Robert Penn Warren Center at Western Kentucky University is pleased to announce an essay contest for undergraduate students (all majors welcome). We will select three winners, each of whom will receive a prize of $100. All awardees will be recognized on the Robert Penn Warren Center’s website and receive an invitation to the annual Robert Penn Warren Studies conference on Friday, April 26, 2019. In addition, all awardees will have the option to have their work uploaded to TopScholar, WKU’s online, open-access repository of scholarship and creative works.

Previous to 2018 this submissions came from high school students.