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.
Additional Awards include:
• The Ross Alexander Drama Award (For promising playwriting students.)
• Award for Excellence in Writing
• The Allan Danzig Award in Victorian and Romantic Literature
• The Jerome Lowell DeJur Award In Creative Writing
• James Emmanuel Poetry Prize
• English 110 Family Narrative Award
• Friars Club Award (For excellence and potential in acting.)
• The Goodman Fund Loan Grants (For literary works in progress.)
• The Goodman Fund Poetry Awards
• The Goodman Fund Short Story Awards
• The Leon Pin (For overall excellence in English.)
• The Edward Mack Graduate Fellowship
• The Malinche Prize/Literary Translation
• David Markowitz Poetry Award
• Geraldine Griffin Moore Award in Creative Writing
• The William Bradley Otis FellowshipIn American Literature
• Seymour Peck Scholarship and Creative Awards in the Arts (To outstanding
undergraduate or graduate majors in the arts.)
• The David Markowitz Essay Award
• The Meyer Cohen Graduate Essay Award in Literature
• The Outstanding Undergraduate Literature Essay Award
• The Edward Rivera Prize in Autobiography or Autobiographical Fiction - CCNY
• The Edward Rivera Prize in Autobiography or Autobiographical Fiction - CWE
• The CWE/ADA Shepherd Creative Writing Award
• The Abraham A. Bernstein Class of 1930 Award
• The Dortort Scholarship in Creative Writing
• The Laskin Award for Children's Writing
• The Adria Schwartz Award in Women's Fiction
• The Jack Zucker Memorial Prize in Poetry (Graduate)
• The Jack Zucker Memorial Prize in Poetry (Undergraduate)
• The Raymond Patterson Poetry Prize
• The Paul Roberts Memorial Scholarship Fund
• The Richard Shepherd Award for Excellence in Writing
• The Albert Friend Award for Excellence in Medieval Studies
• The Tony Cade Bambara Endowed Scholarship
• The Sidney Jacoff Graduate Fellowship
• The Outstanding Teaching Award
• The Bernie West Award
• The Barbash Award
• Jacob A. Weiser Playwriting Fund (To assist young playwrights in pursuing their artistic goals.)
For further information about these awards, inquire in the Department Office.