Department of English and Language Arts

The James H. Gilliam, Jr. College of Liberal Arts

Awards/Prizes

Open to Sophomores, Juniors, Seniors, and Graduate Students 

Dr. Burney J. Hollis Literary Award
$1,000.00
Deadline:  October 15, 2024

Dr. Ruthe T. Sheffey Endowed Scholarship
$1,200.00 Deadline: 
Deadline:  October 15, 2024

Nick and Ola Ford Endowed Fund
$1,200.00
Deadline:  October 15, 2024

Annie C. Blue and Maggie E. Reid Award

$1,500.00

Deadline: October 15, 2024

2024 Adele V. Holden New Voices Award

$4,000.00
Deadline:  February 12, 2024

2024 Adele V. Holden Creative Excellence Award

$5,000.00

Deadline:  February 12, 2024

For more information contact:  Ms. Jacqueline Cozart, via phone at 443.885.3165 or email at Jacqueline.Cozart@Morgan.edu

"The need to make education completely honest, representative of all aspects of American culture, and relevant to the realities of modern life demands that Black Studies become an intricate part of the curriculum at all levels. A national educational program which allows a student to pass through kindergarten, elementary school, high school, and university without learning a single note-worthy fact about the culture and individual achievements of black Americans, who comprise the largest minority of the nation, is indefensible. Yet that has been a fact of American life since the founding of the nation."

-Nick Aaron Ford, Black Studies: Threat-or-Challenge