First-Year Writing Program to Recognize Outstanding Students

The Carnegie Mellon University First-Year Writing Program is pleased to announce the call for outstanding student pieces for its inaugural Excellence in First-Year Writing Awards.

These awards will be issued separately for essays produced in 76-100 and 76-101. Essays from Fall 2015 and Spring 2016 will be considered for the 2016 awards, which are open to first-year students across Carnegie Mellon.

Participants must be undergraduate students enrolled in either a fall or spring section of 76-100 or 76-101 of the current academic year. Original essays must have been written in response to the contribution assignment for 76-101 or the position assignment for 76-100. Only one entry per student is eligible for submission.

Fall 2015 students’ entries are due by midnight on January 17, 2016; the Spring 2016 deadline will be announced at a later date. The winners will be announced in the summer of 2016, when they will receive prizes and publication in an online journal format.