Edith Wharton Essay Prize

The Edith Wharton Essay Prize

Call for Submissions

Deadline: October 1, 2007

The Edith Wharton Essay Prize is awarded annually for the best unpublished essay on Edith Wharton by a beginning scholar. Graduate students, independent scholars, and faculty members who have not held a tenure-track or full-time appointment for more than four years are eligible to submit their work.

The winning essay will be published in The Edith Wharton Review, a peer-reviewed journal indexed in the MLA Bibliography , and the writer will receive an award of $250.

All entries will be considered for publication in The Edith Wharton Review as well as for the Edith Wharton Essay Prize. Submissions should be 15-25 pages in length and should follow the new 6 th edition MLA style, using endnotes, not footnotes.

Applicants should not identify themselves on the manuscript but should provide a separate cover page that includes their names, academic status, e-mail address, postal addresses, and the notation “The Edith Wharton Essay Prize.”

To submit an essay for the prize, send three copies by October 1, 2007, to either of the editors of The Edith Wharton Review:

Prof. Carole M. Shaffer-Koros, Editor
Dean, School of Visual and Performing Arts
VE-114A
Kean University
Union, NJ 07083

Prof. Linda Costanzo Cahir, Co-editor
Willis 105K
Kean University
Union, NJ 07083

Edith Wharton Beinecke Research Award

Edith Wharton Beinecke Research Award

Deadline: March 1, 2007

Each year the Edith Wharton Society offers a Edith Wharton Beinecke Research Award of $1500 to enable a scholar to conduct research on the Wharton materials at the Beinecke Library at Yale University.

Prospective fellows for the 2007-2008 award are asked to submit a research proposal (maximum length 5 single-spaced pages) and a resume by March 1, 2007 to Hildegard Hoeller at hilhllr@aim.com or at 29 Gail Court, Staten Island NY 10306.

The research proposal should detail the overall research project, its particular contribution to Wharton scholarship, the pre parati on the candidate brings to the project, and the specific relevance that materials at the Beinecke collection have for its completion. The funds need to be used for transportation, lodging, and other expenses related to a stay at the library.

Notification of the award will take place by April 15th and the award can be used from May 1, 2007 till May 1, 2008. A final report will be due June 1, 2008.