The Program in Creative Writing is now accepting applications for the Leonard L. Milberg '53 Secondary School Poetry Prize. Eligibility is limited to students in the eleventh grade during the 2011-12 academic year. Applicants may submit up to three poems with name, address, email address, telephone number and name of high school and high school telephone number on each poem. The jury will consist of members of the Princeton University Creative Writing faculty such as Michael Dickman, Paul Muldoon, Meghan O’Rourke, C.K. Williams and Susan Wheeler. Submissions must be postmarked by March 30, 2012, and addressed to: 

Leonard L. Milberg '53 Secondary School Poetry Prize Contest
Princeton University
Lewis Center for the Arts
Program in Creative Writing
6 New South
Princeton, New Jersey 08544

Results will be posted on the Princeton University Program in Creative Writing website in May 2012. Submissions will not be returned.
 

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

2011 Recipients:

First Place: Sarah Rhu, Sao Joao
Columbia, SC

Second Place: Madeleine Wattenbarger, Creation
Philadelphia, PA

Third Place: Sophia Wiltrout, Across the Homeland
Myrtle Beach, SC

2011 Honorable Mention:

Boyce Gladden, Move Kid
Abbeville, SC

Abaigeal Harris, Hag Ridden
Simponville, SC

Anna Pittman, Performance Art
Greenville, SC

The Creative Writing Faculty at Princeton University 2011-12
Susan Wheeler, Director Susan Choi Michael Dickman Mark Doty* Jeffrey Eugenides A.M. Homes Sheila M. Kohler	Christina Lazaridi Chang-rae Lee Patricia Marx Susanna Moore Paul Muldoon  Joyce Carol Oates Meghan O’Rourke	James Richardson David Rosenberg** Brenda Shaughnessy Tracy K. Smith Edmund White Colson Whitehead C.K. Williams
* Theodore H. Holmes '51 Visiting Lecturer ** Class of 1932 Visiting Lecturer

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.”