Program in Creative Writing
Department of English
UW-Madison
6195 H.C.White Hall
600 North Park Street
Madison, WI 53706
(608) 263-3374
Last Updated:
April 28, 2008

Graduate Awards

Graduate students in the MFA program are eligible to compete for the following prizes. The deadline, typically in March, will be announced here.

The David and Jean Milofsky Prize in Creative Writing ($750) is awarded annually to a graduate student in the MFA Program for the best poetry or fiction submission.

The August Derleth Prize ($750) is awarded annually to a graduate student in any discipline for work on Wisconsin regional literature or for writing in any genre to which August Derleth contributed (fiction, poetry, essay, creative non-fiction, etc.).

The Jerome Stern Teaching Award presented for outstanding teaching by a graduating MFA student.

Other MFA graduate student awards include the Martha Meier Renk, Dorothy D. Bailey, and Anastasia C. (Tess) Hoffman Summer Scholarship Prizes in the amount of $3,000 each, which are awarded to MFA students at the end of their first year in residence; and the Martha Meier Renk Distinguished Graduate Fellowship in Poetry, which is awarded to one poetry MFA upon admission to the program.