St. Norbert College English Awards and Scholarships

The English Endowed Scholarship | view list of recipients
Associate Professor Tom Davidson (currently a Professor Emeritus of English at St. Norbert College) instituted this award in 1984. To start the award, Professor Davidson pledged a generous donation. He inspired many other English professors to commit liberally to the scholarship fund as well.

Professor Davidson pledged a generous donation that inspired other English professors to commit to the scholarship fund as well. Students are chosen on the basis of scholastic promise and must be pursuing a course of study in English.

• Awarded to a promising English major with junior standing each year.
• Recipients are selected by English faculty.
• Winners show scholastic promise in the field of English.
• Winners are announced at the Literary Awards Ceremony.

Mary McHale Wood Endowed Scholarship for Excellence in Writing | view list of recipients
Mary McHale Wood, a graduate of St. Norbert College, was a passionate writer with a sense of purpose that set her apart from the crowd. She died in 2002 and her family created a scholarship—$1,000 above and beyond any money already promised to the recipient—to carry on her legacy.

Each year, my colleagues and I select a worthy emerging writer from the junior class to recognize with this award. We look for a writer with a sense of vocation, a student who has gone above and beyond the call over the years in his or her writing courses. This student not only shows talent but discipline, ambition, and, best of all, care for other writers in his or her community. This student shares expertise with others, helps others to succeed in their writing adventures, and so serves as a galvanizing force in the St. Norbert writing community. This year, the fund has grown enough to allow for TWO $1,000 awards. We would like to award one to a promising creative writer and one to a promising critical writer. Both writers can come from any discipline—what's important is that the writer pursue his or her work with passion and purpose, as part of the St. Norbert community.

• If you are a junior at St. Norbert College who fits this bill and would like to be considered for one of these awards, please send me an electronic portfolio (formatted in Word or .rtf) containing:
• A brief cover letter (1-2 pages) to apply for the scholarship that identifies the genre you're working in (creative or critical writing) and describes your writing history. You might discuss:
• • The writing courses you've taken at St. Norbert College,
  • The kinds of essays, poems, stories, and so forth, you've written,
  • Your strengths and goals as a writer,
  • The directions you plan to pursue with future work.
• Please include your full name, campus address, phone number and e-mail address on your cover letter.
• A sample of your most accomplished writing. This can be a group of poems (no more than 10 pages), a critical essay, a short story, a novel chapter, or a personal essay (prose samples should not exceed 25 pages, double-spaced).
• If you wish to be considered for a Mary McHale Wood Award, please submit this electronic portfolio to laurie.macdiarmid@snc.edu.

Awards:

The Rev. Patrick N. Butler Award for Excellence in English Studies | view list of recipients
The Reverend Patrick N. Butler (1901-1973), who served as Dean of St. Norbert College for two years in the early 1940s was chairman of the English Department from 1930 until 1964. He continued to teach in that department until his retirement in 1971. He was a charter member of the National Scholastic Honor Society known as Delta Epsilon Sigma, and was instrumental in establishing the St. Norbert College Chapter in 1940. A first-rate scholar who was thoroughly devoted to his priestly duties, Father Sutler also showed an abiding love for children, as evidenced by his forty-two years as director of the Norbertine summer camp for boys on Shawano Lake.

At his death in 1973, he left a glowing record of honest intellectual achievement; absolute moral integrity; and warm, cheerful humor—the three qualities, which in the judgment of the English faculty, also characterize the recipient of this award.

• Awarded to graduating seniors with majors in English.
• Recipients are selected by English faculty.
• Winners show a record of stellar performance as English majors—excellent academic accomplishments as well as an abiding passion for the study of literature. Winners show creativity in critical work, an active curiosity about and devotion to literature.
• Winners announced at the Dean's Academic Awards dinner.

St. Norbert College Literary Awards | view list of recipients
Any current St. Norbert student is encouraged to submit his or her work to the contest. Submission Guidelines:

• Creative Prose encompasses short story, memoir, and the personal essay—any form that relies primarily on narrative techniques. Entries should be no more than 25 pages, double-spaced, in a readable (12 point) font.
• Poetry submissions are 3-5 poems, single-spaced, in a readable (12 point) font.
• The critical essay should treat literature. Sources must be properly cited following MLA citation format. Entries should be no more than 25 pages, double-spaced, in a readable (12 point) font.
• Writers may submit entries in all three genres but no more than one entry per genre.
• Submit each entry with a coversheet containing the author’s name, campus address, phone number, e-mail address and title or titles of the work. The work itself should not contain the author’s name. (If you plan to submit more than one genre, please create a separate entry and coversheet for each.) Include a page number and title on each page.
• Submit 2 copies of the entry in a plain file folder to Laurie MacDiarmid’s mailbox in Boyle 327, or
• E-mail your entry to laurie.macdiarmid@snc.edu as a Word or .rtf file attachment; include your coversheet in the file as the first page.

Other scholarships

American Graduate Fellowships
This initiative is designed to promote and support doctoral study in the humanities by accomplished graduates of small and mid-sized private liberal arts colleges.