Announcing the Arlin G. Meyer Prize 2012
The National Network Board of the Lilly Fellows Program in Humanities and the Arts is proud to announce the 2012 Arlin G. Meyer Prize in Imaginative Writing.
The Arlin G. Meyer Prize is awarded biennially to a fulltime faculty member from a college or university in the Lilly Fellows Program National Network Work that exemplifies the practice of the Christian artistic or scholarly vocation in relation to any pertinent subject matter or literary and artistic style will be considered. The prize will be awarded in different years for works of music performance and for works of scholarship. The 2012 Arlin G. Meyer Prize will reward the author of a creative work that emerges from his or her practice of the vocation of the Christian creative writer, in accord with the principles and ideals of the Lilly Fellows Program.
The Prize honors Arlin G. Meyer, Professor Emeritus of English at Valparaiso University, who served as program director of the Lilly Fellows Program in Humanities and the Arts from its inception in 1991 until his retirement in 2002.
The 2012 Arlin G. Meyer Prize will be awarded to an original work of imaginative writing in one of the following categories:
- Literary fiction
- Dramatic script or screenplay
- Creative nonfiction
- Poetry
- Original text for a musical composition, such as an opera libretto, cantata text, or book and lyrics of a musical
The 2012 Arlin G. Meyer Prize will be awarded to a full-time faculty member at a school in the Lilly Fellows Program National Network of Church-Related Colleges and Universities whose work was published in 2009, 2010, or 2011.
The Prize of $3000 will be awarded at the Lilly Fellows Program National Conference at University of Indianapolis, October 19-21, 2012.
Nomination Procedure:
Each Lilly Fellows Program National Network institution may nominate one work for the 2012 Arlin G. Meyer Prize.
The institution may select its nominee through any process. The work must have been authored by a full-time faculty member or administrator at a current Lilly Fellows Program National Network institution. The full-time faculty member may be a visiting faculty artist. The work must have been published during the calendar years 2009, 2010, or 2011.
A nomination must include:
- A cover letter of nomination signed by one or both of the two official LFP representatives from the nominating institution
- A statement or narrative by the writer of approximately 500 words explaining how the work exemplifies the practice of the Christian academic and artistic vocation
- A copy of the nominated work. If the work is the text for a musical composition, the printed score with text must be accompanied by a sound recording of the performed work.
- The author's curriculum vitae
Nominations must be sent to:
Arlin G. Meyer Prize
c/o Susanna Childress
Hope College
Department of English
126 E. 10th Street
Holland, MI 46423
Nomination deadline: March 1, 2012. Nominations received after this date cannot be considered.
A flyer is available to download here. A list of past winners and finalists may be found here.