Free to enter, Dan Crowley Memorial Student Essay Prize (American Folklore Society), prize: $200

Deadline: 1 June 2012

The Dan Crowley Memorial Student Essay Prize, offered by the Storytelling Section of the American Folklore Society, is a $200 prize for a graduate or undergraduate student essay dealing with some aspect of storytelling performance in formal or informal settings.

Submissions, which should not exceed 9000 words in length, should be e-mailed to jradner@american.edu as a Word or .pdf attachment no later than June 1, 2012. The cover message should include the title of the paper, as well as the author's name, mailing address, telephone number, e-mail address, academic affiliation and year in program, and the name of the faculty member to whom the essay was originally submitted. Only the title -- no identification of the author -- should appear on the essay itself.

The prize winner will be notified by the end of August. The award will be formally presented at the business meeting of the Storytelling Section at the Annual Meeting of the American Folklore Society in New Orleans, LA, October 24-27, 2012.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

For inquiries: contact one of the section co-conveners: Jo Radner (jradner@american.edu) or Joseph Sobol (sobol@mail.etsu.edu)

For submissions: jradner@american.edu

Website: http://www.afsnet.org/