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The Department of English Graduate Student Award deadline is April 9th, 2021. The awards to be administered this year include the new Dissertation Completion Award made possible by Dr. Lois Zamora's generous endowment, the new David Judkins Ph.D. Dissertation Progress Grants to advance Anti-Racist Projects, as well as The Wyman H. Herendeen Award for Excellence in Scholarly Publication.
The Annual Media and Moving Image Student Prize Competition deadline is April 16th, 2021. This competition accepts entries of critical, creative, and applied student work. Submissions must have been completed as part of UH coursework for the current or previous academic year.

Dr. Roberto Tejada has been awarded a 2021 Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship for his poetry, chosen through a peer-review process, recipients are “exceptional individuals in pursuit of scholarship . . . and creation”.
Poetry professor francine j. harris has won the National Book Critic’s Circle Award for her third collection of poetry Here is the Sweet Hand (FSG, 2020).
Professor Kevin Prufer and alumni Bryan Washington (B.A.) and Tony Diaz (Ph.D.) have been named 2021 honorees of The Texas Institute of Letters. They join the ranks of the honor society that celebrates Texas literature and recognizes distinctive literary achievement.
Professor francine j. harris' poetry collection Here is the Sweet Hand (Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2020) shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Dr. Cedric Tolliver's monograph Of Vagabonds and Fellow Travelers: African Diaspora Literary Culture and the Cultural Cold War (University of Michigan Press, 2020) named to the American Library Association's Choice Outstanding Academic Titles (OAT) list for 2020.
Alumna Novuyo Rosa Tshuma wins prestigious 2020 Lannan Literary Foundation Fellowship for Fiction.
Alumnus Jericho Brown Wins 2020 Pulitzer Prize for his poetry collection The Tradition.
Alumnus Bryan Washington’s short story collection Lot Wins the 2020 Dylan Thomas Prize.

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