Category Archives: Competitions

Roy Crane Award for Literary Arts

Applications are now open for the 2024 Roy Crane Award for Literary Arts.

This award is given each year for unique, creative effort in the performing, literary and visual arts. In 2024, the award(s) will be given in the area of literary arts. Awards range between $1,000 and $4,500. The application and all supporting materials must be received by Friday, April 5, at 11:59 p.m. Central.

For more information on Roy Crane, award eligibility, as well as application requirements, please click the link here!

LAH Literary Awards – Tell Your Stories

The inaugural LAH Literary Awards support excellence in creative writing and support the
accomplishments of our LAH community. Three prizes will be offered: one in poetry, one in
fiction, and one in literary nonfiction. Please see below for detailed instructions on how to
submit to each category.

Poetry: Submit a portfolio of 6-8 poems (12pt. Times New Roman) that does not exceed 12
pages.
Fiction: Submit a portfolio of fiction writing (12pt. Times New Roman) that does not exceed
5,000 words.
Literary Nonfiction: Submit a portfolio of non-fiction writing (12pt. Times New Roman) that
does not exceed 5,000 words.

Your contest submissions are due by 12pm CST on February 1 st . Please send your submissions
to Dr. Brandon Dean Lamson at brandon.lamson@austin.utexas.edu. Winning entries will be
published online.

Winners will also receive a $500 cash prize and will participate in a reading with the contest
judges.

Scheduling Community Fair: Logo design contest!

We need your help! We’re having a course scheduling professional development conference in the spring with a State Fair theme and we need a logo. Our slogan that we’d like incorporated in some way is “Come one, come all, to celebrate and share!”

The logo, which best features our theme and/or slogan, will be displayed prominently on our conference sites and other promotional materials. Multiple submissions are welcome. Selected entry will receive a $50 gift card.

The deadline for submissions is Thursday, December 1, 2022 at 11:45pm.

  • Digital images must be a high-resolution (300 dpi or greater) .tiff, .jpeg, or .png and be sized to 12×14”.

Submission form: https://forms.office.com/r/acQaSNhkAX

If you have trouble accessing the form contact: lisav@austin.utexas.edu

2022 Student Writing Flag Awards

The deadline is approaching for the School of Undergraduate Studies Writing Flag Award, honoring the best writing produced by UT undergraduates in courses carrying the Writing Flag. Students must submit their work by 11:59 p.m. on Monday, December 12, 2022, to be eligible for prizes of up to $300, awarded in three categories — Research, Persuasive/Critical, and Creative/Reflective. In each of these categories, the Writing Flag Awards will recognize student writing that best demonstrates clarity, inventiveness and intellectual rigor.

Eligible works must be written by an undergraduate student and submitted for credit in a UT Austin Writing Flag class in the Spring, Summer or Fall semester of 2022. Collaboratively written entries are allowed in all categories.

For full contest rules, submission guidelines and other information, please visit our website.

Thank you,

The Center for Skills & Experience Flags Team

Free Speech Essay Contest

The contest is open exclusively to UT undergraduates, and all undergraduates are eligible.  

Prizes for the top three essays range from $700-$1500. 

Deadline for submission is November 4, 2022. 

The two topics that students may choose from this year concern: The Right to be Forgotten (erasing past speech) and Freedom of the Press.

The complete questions and all further details about length, submission, etc., can be found at our website:  https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/freespeechessay/essay-contest/

 

Related: events during Free Speech Week may be of interest to students. Two that I currently know of are: 

Tuesday October 18th at 6 pm in RRH 3.310 – Freedom of the Press in an Era of Misinformation – Cognitive Problems, Legal Solutions

a lecture by Professor Tara Smith  https://salemcenter.org/event/freedom-of-the-press-in-an-era-of-misinformation-cognitive-problems-legal-solutions/

Thursday October 20 at 4 pm in Dealy 1.202 – The First Amendment and the Regulation of Social Media – a lecture by attorney Michael Lambert.

Please contact Roxy Becker (roxybecker@austin.utexas.edu) if you have questions about the contest or these events.

Roy Crane Award for Outstanding Achievement in Visual Arts 2022

Deadline: May 5, 2022 

https://provost.utexas.edu/roy-crane-award/  

 

The Roy Crane Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Arts is given each year to a student of The University of Texas at Austin for unique, creative effort in the performing, literary and visual arts.  

In 2022, the award(s) will be given in the area of visual arts. Any currently enrolled undergraduate or graduate student from any major or area of study may compete for the award. Students graduating in May 2022 are ineligible to apply. 

The selection committee will give no weight to any entrant’s grade point average or other academic achievements. Awards range between $1,000 and $4,500. 

 

To compete for the award, a student must submit the following:  

·         Online application form through Interfolio 

·         Digital portfolio requirement – include all work and information in one PDF document.  

Use a separate page for each image and join all pages into a single document. Each image/page must include the following information: 

o    Artist Name 

o    Title 

o    Date 

o    Materials 

o    Size (H x W x D) 

Other information: If image is a video still, you may include a link to an excerpt of the video. All video works should be no more than 3 minutes total.  

·         You may submit no more than 15 images of up to 10 artworks 

 

Work submitted must represent creative achievement while enrolled at UT Austin. Research or analysis does not qualify. 

Contact undergraduateawards@utexas.edu if you have any questions. 

Free Speech Essay Contest

The contest is open exclusively to UT undergraduates, and all undergraduates are eligible. Prizes for the top three essays range from $700-$1500. Deadline for submission is February 28, 2022. 

 The two topics that students may choose this year concern:  Misinformation – Should the Government Allow It? and Speech that Offends – Why Protect It?

The complete questions and all further details about length, submission, etc., can be found at our website – freespeechessay.com

HPO T-Shirt Design Contest

The Health Professions Office is excited to host our annual Health Professions Fair, in person, on February 23rd!

In preparation for our fair we are having a T-Shirt Design Contest!

  • The contest will be open for submissions until December 6th at 11:59pm
  • Voting will take place via Instagram from December 8th through the 10th
  • All entries must be created by a UT Austin student(s), represent the Health Professions Office and be inclusive of all health professions (i.e. not representing only medicine)
  • Winning design will be placed on our website and put on shirts that will be given out at the fair

For a full list of rules, please go to https://www.instagram.com/texas_hpo/ and click the link in our bio!

2021 Student Writing Flag Awards

Apply for the School of Undergraduate Studies Writing Flag Award, honoring the best writing produced by UT undergraduates in courses carrying the Writing Flag! Students must submit their work by 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday, December 15, 2021, to be eligible for prizes of up to $300, awarded in three categories—Research, Persuasive/Critical, and Creative/Reflective. The Writing Flag Awards will recognize student writing that best demonstrates clarity, inventiveness, and intellectual rigor.

Eligible works must be written by an undergraduate student and submitted for credit in a UT-Austin Writing Flag class in the Spring, Summer, or Fall semester of 2021. Collaborative entries are allowed in all categories.

For full contest rules, submission guidelines, and other information, please see the Center for the Skills and Experience Flags website.

Black History Contest 2021 Now Open!

Choose a historical figure or event from African American history and tell us how you draw inspiration from him/her/them/it.

Participants are asked to submit a 3-5 minute video OR a written 300-word short story with an image. Videos and written stories will then be judged and 3 winners from each of our 2 categories (students and faculty) will be selected. All videos and written stories will be judged on their relevancy, authenticity, organization/coherence, creativity, and positivity.

The following awards will be given for the top 3 videos or written stories in the faculty category and in the student category:

FIRST PRIZE
$1000

SECOND PRIZE
$500

THIRD PRIZE
$250

Important Dates

Submission Open Date:
September 15th

Submission Close Date:
December 15th

Winners Announced:
February 2022

For more information, check out our website!