{"id":9583,"date":"2024-04-10T14:53:36","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T14:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/writing\/?p=9583"},"modified":"2024-04-10T14:53:36","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T14:53:36","slug":"first-year-writers-submit-your-work-for-the-2024-henrietta-morgan-memorial-award-deadline-friday-may-3-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/writing\/2024\/04\/10\/first-year-writers-submit-your-work-for-the-2024-henrietta-morgan-memorial-award-deadline-friday-may-3-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"First-Year Writers: Submit your work for the 2024 Henrietta Morgan Memorial Award! (Deadline: Friday, May 3, 2024)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Each year the Writing Studio conducts the competition for the Henrietta Morgan Memorial Award for First-Year Writers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"This<\/a>Established by William Morgan in memory of his wife, the award goes to the first-year student who submits the best sample of original writing.<\/p>\n

In Spring 2024, <\/em><\/strong>the deadline for submissions is <\/em>Friday, May 3<\/em><\/strong>, at 11:59 p.m.<\/em><\/p>\n

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What is the Morgan Award?<\/h2>\n

The Henrietta Morgan Memorial Award is an annual competition recognizing excellence in the writing of Vanderbilt\u2019s first-year students. The award goes to the first-year student who submits the best sample of original writing. Poems, short stories, critical essays, research papers, articles of opinion, or expository essays are all acceptable. Students may submit up to two entries.<\/p>\n

Three prizes will be\u00a0awarded in all:\u00a0a first prize\u00a0of\u00a0$200.00, a second prize\u00a0of\u00a0$150.00, and a third prize\u00a0of\u00a0$100.00.<\/p>\n

How do I enter?<\/h3>\n

The full submission instructions, eligibility requirements, and a link to the required entry for in InfoReady can be found on the Writing Studio’s Morgan Award page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Will you join our gallery of Morgan Award winners this year?<\/h3>\n

Wondering what winners wrote about in the past? Take a scroll through our Gallery of Recent Morgan Award Winners<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Morgan Award competition is conducted by the Writing Studio, and entries will be judged by a committee of writing course instructors. Winners will be notified in June and announced on the Writing Studio’s website<\/a> and the Writing Studio Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Each year the Writing Studio conducts the competition for the Henrietta Morgan Memorial Award for First-Year Writers. Established by William Morgan in memory of his wife, the award goes to the first-year student who submits the best sample of original writing. In Spring 2024, the deadline for submissions is Friday, May 3, at 11:59 p.m. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,7,5],"tags":[19,20],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","ACF":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9583"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}