The Program in Creative Writing is pleased to announce that we are now accepting applications for the Leonard Milberg '53 Secondary School Poetry Prize. Eligibility is limited to students in the eleventh grade during the 2009-10 academic year. Applicants may submit up to three poems with name, address, email address, telephone number and name of high school on each poem. The jury will consist of members of the Princeton University Creative Writing faculty. Submissions must be postmarked by March 29, 2010, and addressed to:

Milberg '53 Poetry Contest
Princeton University
Lewis Center for the Arts
Program in Creative Writing
185 Nassau Street
Princeton, New Jersey 08544

Due to the volume of entries, only winners will be notified. The results will be posted on the Princeton University Program in Creative Writing website in May 2010. Please note: Submissions will not be returned.

First Prize: $500
Second Prize: $250
Third Prize: $100

2009 Recipients:

First Place: Sadie McCarney, Scorpions
Annapolis Royal, NS, CANADA

Second Place: Tina Hanae Miller, They Dug A Great Depression/Rigor Mortis
Coconut Grove, FL

Third Place: Mitch McGuire, Crow
Upper Arlington, OH

2009 Special Honorable Mention

Nick Daugharty, Treat Me
Jacksonville, FL

2009 Honorable Mention:

Gabriella Fee, Child
Lincoln, MA

Anya Morgan, The Tunnel to China
Los Angeles, CA

Brennan Robbins, Stalin's Nightmare
Weston, MA

Rachel Rothenberg, Eulogy for Andy
Pittsburgh, PA

Katy Schneider, Crescent Revelations in Marrakesh
Madison, CT

Emily Swanagin, Coordination
Birmingham, AL

The Creative Writing Faculty at Princeton University 2009-10
Chang-rae Lee, Director Sarah Arvio Emily Barton Susan Choi Jeffrey Eugenides Sheila M. Kohler Christina Lazaridi	Susanna Moore Paul Muldoon Joyce Carol Oates Meghan O’Rourke James Richardson Brenda Shaughnessy Tracy K. Smith	Colm Toibin Lawrence Venuti Susan Wheeler Edmund White C.K. Williams

Past winners who have gone on to become Princeton University students include:

Daisy Bassen ’98 - "Winning the prize made me aware of the Creative Writing program at Princeton and showed me how warm and encouraging it is to young poets."

Caitlin Crounse ’99 - “It confirmed my most cherished, outlandish suspicion: that I might actually be a poet.”

Jon Queally ’00 - “Winning this prize meant that there was the possibility that I had something of value to say.”

Efe Balikcioglu ’10 - “Receiving the prize encouraged me to pursue improving my talent in every aspect here at Princeton.”