Robert Penn Warren Essay Contest
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.
Submissions from 2020
Motions Like Sleep in Robert Penn Warren’s “Lullaby”, Cameron Fontes
“Where Inner and Outer Meet”: Dissociation and the Creative Process, Joseph Shoulders
Correspondence with the Season of Autumn, Seth Nevin
Submissions from 2016
Watershed, Matthew Doyle
Watersheds in Life, Molly Morgan
The Systems of Life, Madeline Stephenson
Submissions from 2015
2015 Robert Penn Warren Essay Contest Winners, Department of English