Elizabeth Mills Crothers Prizes in Literary Composition
Established in 1929
Description. The Elizabeth Mills Crothers Prizes in Literary Composition are awarded for excellence of composition in poetry, story writing, drama, or another field of literary composition. Judging is based on excellence of composition in story or play writing. Open to all graduates and undergraduates. For complete information read the General Rules.
Prize Amounts. $1,000 in prizes is awarded to up to five winners. Federal financial aid regulations require that all awards received by a student can not exceed their financial aid need as determined by a congressional formula. It is possible, therefore, that the cash award for a prize could reduce some component of a needy student’s package of financial aid awards. In these cases, the Financial Aid and Scholarships Office attempts first to reduce loan or work aid; fellowships, grants, or scholarships are only reduced as a last resort.
Deadline. Submissions must be hand-delivered by the author to the Undergraduate Scholarships, Prizes, and Honors Office, 220 Sproul Hall, no later than 4 p.m on December 1. The author's name must not appear on the entry.
History of the Prize. This fund was accepted by the Regents on August 13, 1929. The Corpus thereof, in the amount of $3,000.00, was, by Judge George E. Crothers, pursuant to an agreement dated October 13, 1921 between Judge Crothers and the late Maria Elizabeth Mills, transferred to Mrs. Mills for the support of a fellowship in music in Mills College.This agreement provided that upon the death of Mrs. Mills the fund should pass to the Regents to support the Elizabeth Mills Crothers Prize in Literary Composition at the University of California.
2010-11: 25 entries; Kelsa Trom and Tom Recht ($150 each)
2009-10: 32 entries; Faith Gardner, Angelene Smith, David Krolikoski, and Natalie Tsang ($800 each)
2008-09: 31 entries; Mia You ($600); Angelene Smith, Jennifer Reimer, Thomas Gamburg and Natalie Tsang ($350 each)
2007-08: 14 entries; Joseph Cadora, Jude Dizon, Adrienne Johnson and Nalini Rae G Sareen ($250 each)
2006-07: 41 entries; Martine Charnow, Zachary Tomaszewski, and Sara Lahue ($300 each)
2005-06: 31 entries; Geoffrey Greer ($500); Joseph Scalici, Jacqueline Palhegy, Keleigh Friedrich, Trevor Adrian, Emi Ikkanda ($150 each)
2004-05: 40 entries; Jacqueline Palhegy ($500); Leslie MacMillan, Erica Kidder Jensen and Edgar Garcia ($150 each)
2003-04: 22 entries; 1st prize awarded to Bernice Santiago and Katherine Willett ($350 each); 2nd prize awarded to Brandelyn Castine ($200); 3rd prize awarded to Roger Porter ($100)
2002-03: 28 entries; Winners for poetry-Ellen Samuels ($250), Rachel Teukolsky ($175), Laura Wetherington ($175); Winners for Prose-James Ramey ($250), Maria Elena Howard ($150)
2001-02: 22 entries; Jennifer Hasa and Soyoung Jung ($1000 each)
2000-01: 20 entries; Jennifer Ahn and Karen Lee ($1000 each)
1999-00: 19 entries; 1st prizes awarded to Azin Arefi-Anbarani and Matthew Gleeson ($900 each)
1998-99: 27 entries; 1st prizes awarded to Bruce Maritano, Benjamin Russack, Caleb Smith, Frank B. Wilderson III, and Lin Zou ($300 each)
1997-98: 26 entries; 1st prize awarded to Jennifer Stroud ($500); 2nd prize awarded to Asali Solomon ($300); 3rd prize awarded to Bryce Maritano ($200); runner up awarded to Michael Holt and Yuval Sharon ($100 each)
1996-97:1st prize awarded to Caleb Smith ($400); 2nd prize awarded to Anh Bui ($200); 3rd prizes awarded to Asali Solomon and Julia Cho ($175 each); 4th prize awarded to Ola Metwally ($150)
1995-96: 1st prize awarded to Judy Kemelman ($300); 2nd prizes awarded to Amy Graff and Karin Spirn ($250 each); 3rd prizes awarded to awarded to Viet Nguyen and Hamilton Tran ($200 each); 4th prizes awarded to Philip Huynh and Bryan Malessa ($150 each)
1994-95:1st prize awarded to Cynthia Lin ($500); 2nd prizes awarded to Elizabeth Scarboro and Karin Spirn ($350 each); 3rd prizes awarded to Lysley Tenorio, Lyn Dilorio, and Jack Wooster ($200 each); 4th prizes awarded to Cat Dale and Jessica Hahn ($100 each)