Wladyslaw Cieszynski English Fellowship for Prose

The Wlaydslaw Cieszynski English Fellowship is given to an outstanding graduate student in the Department of English. Eligible students must be working on their master’s or PhD in the creative writing track in the Department of English. Eligible students will also have a minimum 3.0 cumulative GPA and be heading into their last year of study (graduating by August of 2025). This contest is for previously published work: one story of no more than 6000 words, or one creative nonfiction piece of no more than 6000 words. Online and print publications are both acceptable. Submit (as a PDF) a copy of the journal cover or web site’s front page, table of contents when one exists, and the published piece itself with the author’s name blacked out wherever it appears.

Applications are typically accepted in mid-Spring each year.

The 2024 prose judge is Belinda Huijuan Tang. Belinda is a 2021 graduate of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was a Truman Capote Fellow and recipient of the Michener-Copernicus Fellowship. She holds a BA from Stanford University and was a 2019 work-study fellow at the Middlebury Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference. She lived in China from 2016 to 2018 and, while there, received an MA from Peking University in Beijing. She currently lives in Los Angeles. Her novel, Map for the Missing, was published in August 2023.