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The Hopwood Awards are a major scholarship program at the University of Michigan, founded by Avery Hopwood. This article is about the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. ...
Avery Hopwood (1882 - 1928) was an American playwright who wrote farces such as Getting Gerties Garter (1927). ...
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. Hopwood's estate was given to the Regents of the University for the encouragement of creative work in writing. The first awards were made in 1931, and today the Hopwood Program offers approximately $100,000 in prizes every year to young aspiring writers at the University of Michigan. A dramatist is an author of dramatic compositions, usually plays. ...
1905 (MCMV) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...
1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link is to a full 1931 calendar). ...
The Hopwood Program administers the University of Michigan Hopwood Award in literature, as well as several other awards in writing. ...
Previous Hopwood winners include Arthur Miller, Robert Hayden, Marge Piercy, Frank O'Hara, and Nancy Willard. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
Robert Hayden (August 4, 1913 - February 25, 1980), born as Asa Bundy Sheffey, was a United States African-American poet, essayist, and educator. ...
Marge Piercy (born March 31, 1936) is an American poet, novelist, and social activist. ...
Francis Russell OHara (June 27, 1926–July 25, 1966) was an American poet who, along with John Ashbery and Kenneth Koch, was a key member of what was known as the New York School of poetry. ...
Following is a list of the contests held by the Hopwood Program with a brief description of eligibility and prizes offered: The Hopwood Program administers the University of Michigan Hopwood Award in literature, as well as several other awards in writing. ...
The Graduate and Undergraduate Hopwood Contest
Awards are offered in the following genres: drama/screenplay, essay, the novel, short fiction and poetry. These awards are classified under two categories, Graduate or Undergraduate, except the novel and drama/screenplay, which are combined categories. Award amounts for this contest vary, but usually fall in the range of $1000 to $6000. An essay is a short work that treats a topic from an authors personal point of view, often taking into account subjective experiences and personal reflections upon them. ...
A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ...
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Poetry (from Ancient Greek: (poiéo/poió) = I create) is traditionally a written art form in which human language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or instead of, its notional and semantic content. ...
Summer Hopwood Contest
This contest is only open to students who take writing courses during Spring and Summer terms.
Hopwood Underclassmen Contest
This contest is open to freshmen and sophomores who are enrolled in writing courses.
See also: University of Michigan, Arthur Miller, short story, literature, theater This article is about the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. ...
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Literature is literally acquaintance with letters as in the first sense given in the Oxford English Dictionary (from the Latin littera meaning an individual written character (letter)). The term has generally come to identify a collection of texts, which in Western culture are mainly prose, both fiction and non-fiction...
For other usages see Theatre (disambiguation) Theater (American English) or Theatre (British English and widespread usage among theatre professionals in the US) is that branch of the performing arts concerned with acting out stories in front of an audience using combinations of speech, gesture, music, dance, sound and spectacle — indeed...
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