External scholarships competitions

Posting date: July 7, 2017

Submission deadline: August 25, 2017

For more information email the English Graduate Coordinator.

The Office of Alumni Affairs recognizes top graduating students for academic achievement, by awarding the Alumni Gold Medal. These medals will be presented to a master's and a doctoral student to recognize their academic excellence at this coming Fall 2017 convocation.

Eligibility:

• Must have graduated in Spring 2017 or be graduating in Fall 2017
• Minimum average of 80%

Posting date: June 19, 2016

Submission deadline: August 31, 2017

For more information, visit the Aesthetica Creative Writing.

The Aesthetica Creative Writing Award 2017 is open for entries, presenting an opportunity for emerging and established writers and poets to showcase their work to new international audiences and further their involvement in the literary world.
Now in its 11^th year, the award is an internationally renowned prize presented by Aesthetica Magazine and judged by literary experts, including Arifa Akbar, book reviewer for Monocle Radio and BBC Radio 5 Live and former Literary Editor at The Independent.

Prizes include:

• £1,000 prize money Poetry Winner
• £1,000 prize money Short Fiction Winner
• Publication in the Aesthetica Creative Writing Anthology for 60 shortlisted writers
• Consultation with Redhammer Management (Short Fiction Winner)
• Full Membership to The Poetry Society (Poetry Winner)
• Selection of books courtesy of Bloodaxe and Vintage
• One year subscription to Granta

Short Fiction entries should be no more than 2,000 words. Poetry entries should be no more than 40 lines. Works previously published elsewhere are accepted.

Posting date: June 5, 2017

Submission deadline: 9:00am August 31, 2017

For more information, visit the Rhodes Scholarship link.

Eligibility Highlights:

·         Canadian Citizen or permanent resident of Canada

·         By October 1^st, 2018, the applicant must be between the ages of 19 and 25

·         Student must have received their undergraduate degree prior to holding the Rhodes scholarship

·         Must have extensive accomplishments – see website above for examples of contributions from past Rhodes applicants

Posting date: July 18, 2017

Closing date: September 1, 2017

Since 2014, SPARC’s OpenCon conferences have been providing a unique venue for the next generation of researchers to meet and discuss opportunities around open access, open data, and open educational resources (OER).

Continuing our longstanding support for open access to scholarly work, the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) will sponsor one travel scholarship to support a graduate student or early career researcher from a CARL institution to attend the SPARC OpenCon 2017 event, November 11-13 in Berlin, Germany. In return, the successful individual will be asked to produce a very short (800-1,000 word) report on what they learned, with some focus placed on how we can better support open access here in Canada.  Some of this content may be used by CARL on our web site and/or on materials produced in association with Open Access Week.

The scholarship covers registration costs, air travel and shared accommodation. Applications are being accepted until September 1 (please note that all applications received by August 1 will also be considered for general OpenCon scholarships).

More information: http://www.carl-abrc.ca/news/OpenCon-2017-scholarship

If you have any questions, please contact Lise Brin at lise.brin@carl-abrc.ca

Posting Date: June 26, 2017

Posting Date: March 29, 2017

Closing Date: October 31, 2017

The Literary Encyclopedia Scholarship Fund has been established through the donation of royalties by contributors and editors to the Encyclopedia.

In 2017 the Literary Encyclopedia Scholarship Fund will award two or three (depending on the number and strength of proposals received) travel bursaries worth £500 each to assist emerging scholars in defraying the costs of archival research on a literary or related matter. Conference attendance will not be covered.

Applicants must be either contributors to The Literary Encyclopedia or carrying out doctoral research in an institution which subscribes to The Literary Encyclopedia and should normally be under the age of 35 on 1st January 2017 or within ten years of completing their doctorate.

The research travel must be completed before September 30th 2017 and recipients will be expected to provide formal reports on their work by October 31st 2017.

Applicants should please download and complete the application form attached HERE, and email it to The Managing Editor no later than 28th February 2017. We hope to announce decisions by the end of April 2017.

You can read about the winning candidates and research proposals from previous years HERE.