Scholarships and Awards
Isaacs Scholarship Program
The Isaacs Scholarship at City College is an undergraduate scholarship for students at the College planning to pursue a major in English Literature. Isaacs Scholars are capable of serious work in humanistic studies. The program is built around a major in English literature with collateral work in Foreign languages and the Classics: the traditional disciplines of a liberal education. Click here to visit the Program website.
Annual Awards And PRIZES include:
Creative Writing Awards
• The Doris Lippman Prize in Creative Writing
• The Jerome Lowell DeJur Award In Creative Writing
• The Henry Roth Memorial Scholarship
• The Adria Schwartz Award in Women's Fiction
• The Geraldine Griffin Moore Award in Creative Writing
• The Goodman Fund Grants
• The Goodman Fund Short Story Award
• The Abraham A. Bernstein Class of 1930 Award
• The Graduate Children's Writing Award
• The Undergraduate Children's Writing Award
Poetry Awards
• The David Markowitz Poetry Award
• The Esther Unger Poetry Prize
• The Goodman Fund Poetry Award
• The James Emanuel Poetry Prize
Essay Awards
• The Allan Danzig Memorial Award in Victorian & Romantic Literature
• The David Markowitz Essay Award
• The Riggs Gold Medal Essay Award
• The Meyer Cohen Graduate Essay Award in Literature
The Irwin and Alice Stark Awards
• The Stark Short Fiction Prize
• The Stark Award in Fiction in Honor of Henry R. Roth
• The Stark Award in Drama in Memory of Ross Alexander
• The Stark Poetry Prize in Memory of Raymond Patterson
• The Stark Award for Essay in Literature
• The Stark English Composition Award in Memory of Mina Shaughnessy
Awards for General Excellence
• The Sidney Jacoff Graduate Fellowship
• The Edward C. and Ruth P. Mack Graduate Fellowship
• The Paul Roberts Memorial Scholarship
• The Richard Shephard Award for Excellence in Writing
• The Leon/Ward Prize
• The Marilyn Sternglass Awards in Language and Literacy:
The Marilyn Sternglass Writing Award
The Marilyn Sternglass Overall Merit Award
• The Toni Cade Bambara Endowed Scholarship
• The William Bradley Otis Fellowship in American Literature
• The Albert Friend Award for Excellence in Medieval Studies
Teaching Awards
• The Norman Levine Outstanding Teaching Award
• The Teacher-Writer Award
2011-2012 Annual Awards & Prizes Booklet