Awards & Prizes

Over 30 monetary awards honoring excellent writing are given each year to Coe students:

• First-Year Seminar Portfolio Awards
• Paul Engle Prize
• COETRY Awards for poetry-across-the-curriculum competition
• Young Essay Prizes
• The Pearl Prizes for Non-fiction
• James Good Excellence in Journalism Award
• Stephen Phelps Awards in writing.

Students are also active in competing for regional and national prizes, including a recent first runner-up in the Nick Adams short story competition. Dozens of stories, poems, essays, and articles written by Coe students have been published in literary and academic journals.