The Hopwood Program administers the University of Michigan Hopwood Award in literature, as well as several other awards in writing. It is located in the Hopwood Room at the University of Michigan and serves the needs and interests of Hopwood contestants. The Room was established by Professor Roy W. 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. In addition to housing the winning manuscripts from the past years of the contests, the Hopwood Room has a lending library of twentieth -century literature, a generous supply of non-circulating current periodicals, some reference books on how to get published, information on graduate and summer writing programs, and a collection of screen plays donated by former Hopwood winner Lawrence Kasdan. This article is about the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. ... The Hopwood Awards are a major scholarship program at the University of Michigan, founded by Avery Hopwood. ... 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... 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1952 (MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999 in the... Lawrence Kasdan (born 14 January 1949) is an Jewish-American movie producer, director and screenwriter. ...

Prizes Administered by the Hopwood Program

The Hopwood Program also administers the following writing contests: the Kasdan Scholarship in Creative Writing, the Arthur Miller Award of the U-M Club of New York Scholarship, the Jeffery L. Weisberg Poetry Prize, the Dennis McIntyre Poetry Prize, the Chamberlain Award for Creative Writing, the Helen S. and John Wagner Prize, the Andrea Beauchamp Prize, the Robert F. Haugh Prize, the Meader Family Award, the Naomi Saferstein Literary Award, the Leonard and Eileen Newman Writing Prizes and the Paul and Sonia Handleman Poetry Award.

Notable Hopwood Winners

• STEVE HAMILTON, 1983, author of “Blood Is the Sky”, “North of Nowhere”, “A Cold Day in Paradise”, “Winter of the Wolf Moon”, “The Hunting Wind”, “North of Nowhere”, and “Ice Run”.
• Lawrence Kasdan
• Elizabeth Kostova, Novel-in-Progress ("The Historian")
• Arthur Miller
• 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 2006 Story Prize, the richest U.S. prize for short fiction, for The Hill Road, a collection of four novellas set in a fictional Irish farming village. O'Keeffe's writing has been compared to the Irish short-story and novel writer William Trevor.
• Marge Piercy, Poetry and Fiction (1957)

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External links

• http://www.lsa.umich.edu/english/hopwood/hopwood.htm
• Hopwood 75th Anniversary

see literature, University of Michigan, Arthur Miller, Hopwood Award 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... This article is about the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The Hopwood Awards are a major scholarship program at the University of Michigan, founded by Avery Hopwood. ...