The 2007 David W. Miller Award for Student Journalists

David W. Miller, a senior writer at The Chronicle of Higher Education, was killed at the age of 35 by a drunken driver in January 2002. Mr. Miller's outstanding career was distinguished by two hallmarks: his insatiable curiosity about people and the world of ideas, and his love for precise and evocative writing.

With this award, now in its fifth year, The Chronicle seeks to pay tribute to Mr. Miller and to identify and nurture future generations of student journalists who are as interested in big ideas and excellent writing as he was.

The award consists of a $2,500 prize and a certificate, and is presented annually. The deadline for submissions is June 1, 2007, and the winner will be announced in the fall.

Candidates may apply for the award by submitting up to three samples of published work accompanied by a one-page letter describing the articles and why they were chosen for submission.

The samples of published work must have appeared in a campus publication during the 2006-7 academic year. Each piece of writing should be journalistic, using expository, explanatory, narrative, or other techniques to report evenhandedly on a topic of intellectual interest. Examples include a new trend, discovery, or theory; an important scholarly debate; an issue with both scholarly and public-policy implications; or a researcher who is as interesting as his or her scholarship. Applicants may bolster their candidacies by submitting articles on a variety of topics or in a range of genres.

Opinion essays, personal columns, scholarly or research papers, and articles that present the author's own research findings are ineligible.

Candidates for the award must have been undergraduate students at the time their articles were published. Applicants may be students in any country, but their submissions must be in English. Employees of The Chronicle and their families are ineligible.
How to apply

Applicants should send their materials, including an address or addresses at which they can be reached in the fall, to:
David W. Miller Award
The Chronicle of Higher Education
1255 23rd Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20037
milleraward@chronicle.com

Applications may be submitted on paper or by e-mail. Writing samples may be original clippings, photocopies of clippings, printouts from publications' Web sites, or links to such Web sites. Applicants seeking the return of their materials should include a self-addressed, stamped envelope.

Electronic-only submissions should be sent as straight-text e-mail messages, not as attachments.

Because of the volume of submissions, applicants will not receive confirmation that their materials have arrived and only the winning applicant will be informed individually of the contest's outcome.

No telephone calls, please.

Florida English

The staff of Florida English, the literary journal supported by the Florida College English Association and Ringling School of Art and Design, announces a call for submissions for its 5th issue. Florida English, a quality, print journal, is published annually and highlights works of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and criticism.

Submission guidelines:

Send one short story or creative nonfiction piece, up to five poems, one brief interview of an author with newly published material, and/or one critical essay on both paper and IBM-compatible CD saved in Microsoft Word or RTF.
Mail submissions to Poetry Editor, Fiction Editor, Creative Nonfiction Editor, Interview Editor, or Critical Essays Editor, Florida English, Department of Language and Literature, Manatee Community College, 5840 26th Street West, Bradenton, Florida 34207. Include SASE with enough postage if you would like to have your manuscript returned (otherwise, submissions will be recycled).

For all submissions, please include a cover sheet with your name, address, phone number, email address, institutional affiliation (if you have one), and the titles of your poems, story, nonfiction piece, or essay.

Do not include your name or a header on any other page.

Do not send simultaneous submissions or previously published work.

Follow current MLA guidelines for critical essay submissions and formatting.

Please include a brief bio. for the contributor’s page.

Submissions must be postmarked by April 1, 2007.

National Press Foundation fellowship

In January, the National Press Foundation will host its first-ever four-day fellowship exclusively for college students. Entitled An Introduction to Washington for College Journalists, the fellowship is an expenses-paid (travel, hotel, and most meals) four-day introduction to Washington , DC for all young journalists interested in the nation's capital. The program is open to those with a print, television, radio, or online focus. To learn how to apply, visit the website, www.nationalpress.org. The deadline for submissions is Friday, December 15.

The National Press Foundation is a non-profit educational foundation based in Washington , DC

Undergraduate Literary and Creative Writing Conference

Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania (50 minutes north
of Harrisburg) invites undergraduate scholars and writers to participate
in its third annual Undergraduate Literature and Creative Writing Conference,
February 19, 2007. The conference is free of charge.

The keynote speaker this year is Michael Bérubé, Paterno Family
Professor in Literature at Pennsylvania State University. The poet John
Hoppenthaler, will conclude the conference with an evening reading.

Undergraduate scholars conducting research on any literary topic, and
creative writers working in any genre, are welcome to present their
work. Scholarship can take any number of forms: studies of individual authors
or groups of authors, individual works or groups of works, literary
history, literary form, the relationship between culture, politics, and
literature, or the production, circulation and reception of literature. All types
of literature and all methods of study, interdisciplinary approaches
included, are welcome. Creative writing can also take any number of forms,
including poetry, prose fiction and non-fiction, and literary journalism.

To be considered for the conference, undergraduates should submit
either a 300-word abstract of a scholarly paper or a work of creative writing
appropriate for a 15-minute presentation. The deadline for submissions
is November 30, 2006.

Please email submissions as an MS Word attachment to englishdept@susqu.edu.Please include complete contact information and college or university affiliation. In the subject line of the email, please indicate:
Conference:
[Title of Paper].

For more information email englishdept@susqu.edu or call 570-372-4196.

Dow Jones Newspaper Fund summer internship

Dow Jones Newspaper Internship
http://djnewspaperfund.dowjones.com/fund/

Phone: 609-452-2820 Email: newsfund@wsj.dowjones.com

Description:
The Dow Jones Newspaper Fund offers annual summer internships in
business reporting, newspaper copy editing and sports copy editing.
With support from Yahoo! News, the Fund will offer 12 online editing
internships. Each program provides free pre-internship training
seminars on college campuses and weekly salaries starting at $350 for a
minimum of 10 weeks. Interns who return to college full-time the
following fall will receive $1,000 scholarships from the Fund. The
postmark deadline is Nov. 1. Applicants will be notified of their
status by late December. In the Online Editing Program, juniors,
seniors and graduate students (applicants must have achieved this
status by Nov. 1, 2006, the application postmark deadline) work as
editors for media companies with news Web sites. Students must have
designated a professor to receive and administer the test on the
application form. Stipend
The Fund requires that all interns be paid at least $350 per week. The
average is about $475, but some papers pay considerably more.

Hotel Critical Review

Hotel Critical Review
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS!!

Deadline for Submissions: November 10th, 2005
Please submit an attached file to hotelreview@gmail.com

Since 2001, a group of undergraduates at McGill University has
produced a journal as daring in its design as it is thorough in its
argumentation. This journal, named Hotel, publishes thoughtful,
insightful writing by undergraduates within and around the fields of
literary and cultural criticism. This broad range of consideration
allows Hotel to publish essays from many disciplines and critical
approaches; we have covered subjects from Paradise Lost to Like Water
for Chocolate and from Mel Brooks to Jean Baudrillard. Hotel
encourages the contributions of all undergraduate students of culture
and the humanities to the realm of critical discourse, ordinarily open
only to graduate students and professional academics. Reflecting the
character of its home city of Montreal and the influence of its
francophone contributors, Hotel publishes works in English and French.

This will be Hotel's sixth volume, and the tentative date of
publication is May 2007.

Submissions to Hotel can be in English or in French, must conform to
MLA guidelines, and should not exceed fifteen pages, double-spaced,
12-point font. Submissions must be undergraduate essays. Previously
published work will not be accepted. Only one submission per person
will be accepted. Please include complete contact information.

For more information please consult our website at
www.arts.mcgill.ca/programs/english/hotel/index.html or
contact the editor-in-chief Julia Foley at hotelreview@gmail.com.

YellowJacket Press Chapbook Contest

The Creative Writing Department at Blake School of the Arts, Tampa,
Florida, announces the Second Annual Yellow Jacket Press Chapbook Contest
for Florida Poets. Deadline is December 1, 2006.~ Winner, announced by
March 15th, will receive $100 and 25 copies. All entrants must be 18 or
over and permanent residents of Florida.
Chapbooks should be no longer than 24 pages, including title page and
acknowledgments. Please include a brief bio, date you became a Florida
resident, and SASE, along with $10 reading fee. Manuscripts will not be
returned.
Last year's winners Mary Jane Ryals of Tallahassee for her collection
Music in Arabic and Susan Lilley of Orlando for her collection Night
Windows.. For copies of last year's winning books, send an additional
$6.50 each along with your submission.

Send submissions to:
Yellow Jacket Press Chapbook Competition
c/o Gianna Russo
Blake School of the Arts
1701 N. Blvd.
Tampa, Fl. 33607

For more information contact
[ mailto:gianna.russo@sdhc.k12.fl.us