OVSC M. Rick Smith Memorial Student Essay Prizes

Instituted in memory of Dr. M. Rick Smith of Kent State-Trumbull, these prizes have been established to recognize outstanding work by students presenting their papers at the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference. A prize in the amount of $100 will be awarded to both the winning undergraduate and graduate paper. Essays will be judged on their 1) contribution to the scholarly conversation, 2) engagement with secondary sources, and 3) clarity of writing and presentation.

Procedures:

Those interested in the Prizes should submit a 300 word abstract to the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference by August 15, 2008. Should the proposal be accepted for presentation at the conference, student authors will then be invited to submit their papers, as they are to be presented, to the contest judges by September 12, 2008. Only those students who present papers at the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference at Youngstown, OH on October 2-5, 2008, will be eligible.

Hillary Nunn

Email: nunn@uakron.edu
Visit the website at http://www.marietta.edu/~engl/OVSC