Dante Prize
Dante Society of America
Award: $500 – $500
Deadline: June 30.
To provide for the best student essays on a subject related to the life or works of Dante Alighieri. Qualifications: Applicants must be best essay submitted by an undergraduate enrolled in any college or university in the US, US territories, or Canada, or by anyone not enrolled as a graduate student who has received an undergraduate degree from a college or university in the US, US territories, or Canada within the past year; student enrolled in any graduate program in the US, US territories, or Canada; submissions are also accepted from students who have graduated since the last prize submission deadline however they must have completed the essay while still enrolled in a graduate program within that calendar year. Selection criteria: Selection will be based on the committee criteria. How to apply: Applicants must submit online application form; essays should be between 5,000 and 10,000 words (including footnotes but excluding bibliography); the essay can be a self-standing work or a portion of a larger work; in the latter case, writers are asked to include in the submission a description of how the essay fits within the larger whole: in any case, the submission should read as a standalone essay; that description will not count towards the essay’s overall word limit but should not exceed 1,000 words; each author should provide a cover page (as the first page of the file) giving their name; institutional affiliation; local, permanent and e-mail addresses; and the title and category (undergraduate or graduate) of the essay; the authors name should not appear on the essay title page (to follow the cover page) or on any other page of the text since the essays are submitted anonymously to the readers; essays may be submitted in either English or Italian; quotations from Dante’s works should be cited in the original language; students working primarily with English translations may quote the translations, but they should provide the corresponding Italian or Latin text in parentheses; illustrations are acceptable if they are analyzed in the essay, or if they help illuminate a point made in the essay; the format of the essay should conform to either the Chicago or MLA style sheet guidelines; body text should be set in times new roman 12, double-spaced, with 1-inch margins. Focus: Renaissance studies.