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.