The Hopwood Awards are a major scholarship program at the University of Michigan, founded by Avery Hopwood. Under the terms of the will of Avery Hopwood, a prominent American dramatist and member of the class of 1905 of the University of Michigan, one-fifth of Mr.
The first awards were made in 1931, and today, the Hopwood Program offers around $120,000 in prizes every year to aspiring writers at the University of Michigan.
A past winner and judge explores the values and dangers of this literary competition. ==External links== Hopwood Awards University of Michigan University of Michigan 1931 establishments in Michigan American literary awards Awards established in 1931
Cowden, director of the Hopwood Awards from 1933 to 1952, who generously contributed a part of his library, which has grown through the addition of many volumes of contemporary literature.
Winner of a PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry Elizabeth Kostova, (MFA) Novel-in-Progress The Historian Arthur Miller (BA 1938) Pulitzer Prize for Drama winning playwright. Howard Moss, won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Selected Poems in 1971. Davi Napoleon, (BA 1966, MA 1968; known then as Davi Skurnick), theater historian and critic, author of The Adventures of an American Theater. Chigozie Obioma, (MFA) Nigerian writer.
Cowden, director of the Hopwood Awards from 1933 to 1952, who generously contributed a part of his library, which has grown through the addition of many volumes of contemporary literature.
Poet Laureate of Utah. Aida Rivera, (MA 1954) Filipino fictionist and essayist, author of "Now and the Hour" collection of short stories. Theodore Roethke, (B.A.
Haugh Prize The Meader Family Award The Naomi Saferstein Literary Award The Leonard and Eileen Newman Writing Prizes The Paul and Sonia Handleman Poetry Award |} ==Notable Hopwood winners== Max Apple, (BA 1963).
Winner of a PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry Elizabeth Kostova, (MFA) Novel-in-Progress The Historian Arthur Miller (BA 1938) Pulitzer Prize for Drama winning playwright. Howard Moss, won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Selected Poems in 1971. Davi Napoleon, (BA 1966, MA 1968; known then as Davi Skurnick), theater historian and critic, author of The Adventures of an American Theater. Chigozie Obioma, (MFA) Nigerian writer.
Winner of a PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry Elizabeth Kostova, (MFA) Novel-in-Progress The Historian Arthur Miller (BA 1938) Pulitzer Prize for Drama winning playwright. Howard Moss, won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Selected Poems in 1971. Davi Napoleon, (BA 1966, MA 1968; known then as Davi Skurnick), theater historian and critic, author of The Adventures of an American Theater. Chigozie Obioma, (MFA) Nigerian writer.
1987) winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry and a Pushcart prize. Jane Kenyon, (BA 1970, MA 1972).
Winner of a PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry Elizabeth Kostova, (MFA) Novel-in-Progress The Historian Arthur Miller (BA 1938) Pulitzer Prize for Drama winning playwright. Howard Moss, won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Selected Poems in 1971. Davi Napoleon, (BA 1966, MA 1968; known then as Davi Skurnick), theater historian and critic, author of The Adventures of an American Theater. Chigozie Obioma, (MFA) Nigerian writer.
1987) winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry and a Pushcart prize. Jane Kenyon, (BA 1970, MA 1972).
Former Poet Laureate of the United States. Lawrence Kasdan (MA) three-times Academy Awards-nominated screenwriter and director. Laura Kasischke (BA 1983, M.F.A.
Media consultant and personality Brett Ellen Block, (BFA) award-winning short story author and novelist. Victoria Chang, (BA 1992) poet and children’s writer.
"A Cold Day In Paradise," won the 1999 Edgar Allan Poe Award, one of the mystery genre's most prestigious awards. Robert Hayden, (M.A.
Hockey ==References== Napoleon, Davi: The Rewards of the Hopwood Michigan Alumnus, Spring 1999.
Love Poems". Patrick O'Keeffe, (MFA), winner of the Chamberlain Award for Creative Writing for "Above the Bar." (administered by the Hopwood Program) and instructor in the University of Michigan's Sweetland Writing Center has won the 2005 Story Prize, the richest U.S.
Winner of a National Book Award for Poetry. Ronald Wallace Jesmyn Ward, (MFA 2005), novelist.
Finalist for 2015 Man Booker Prize and The Guardian First Book Award. Frank O'Hara, (M.A.
Award amounts for this contest vary, but usually fall in the range of $1000 to $6000. ===Summer Hopwood Contest=== The Summer Hopwood Contest was discontinued in 2017, but archives of winning Summer Hopwood manuscripts continue to be held in the Hopwood Room.
Finalist for 2017 National Book Award for Poetry. Keith Waldrop (Ph.D.
Two-time winner of National Book Award for Fiction (2011, 2017). Nancy Willard (B.A.
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