PLEASE NOTE! The deadline for the 2010 Hattie Locket undergraduate student poetry awards has been extended to October 6 by 5 p.m.

The Hattie Lockett Awards are presented annually to students who, in the fall of their senior year, are judged to have demonstrated the greatest promise as poets.

Recent Past Winners:

2009: Hallie Havican, Brett Larson, Julie Swarstad
2008: Julieann Paladin Dela Cruz, Andrew Shuta, Chelsea Hodson
2007: Kellie Davies, Jacob Levine, Lauren Harrison.
2006: Brandon Kreitler, Claire Shefchik, Marianne Go
2005: Marina Kaganova, James Garza, Emily Stuart

Guidelines for the Hattie Lockett Award

To be eligible, a student must be a senior enrolled in at least 12 hours of course work. Entries must be received by October 1, 2010.

2010 Judge: Michael Rerick, UA Alumni and author of In Ways Impossible to Fold

Submission packets should include:

Cover letter stating name, address, telephone number, email address, class, and social security number (to receive cash prizes, contestants must have a social security number) and student ID number. List titles of poems (or first lines).

Submit two copies of a manuscript of three poems. Manuscripts should be typed on white, letter-sized paper. Name should not appear on work.

Send submissions to:

   The Hattie Lockett Award
   UA Poetry Center
   1508 E. Helen Street
   Tucson, AZ 85721-0150

The Poetry Center reserves the right to publish prize-winning poems in the Poetry Center newsletter or web site. Winners may also be asked to read their work at a contest awards reading.