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  tScholars.com | Hopwood Award   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Hopwood Awards are a major scholarship program at the University of Michigan, founded by Avery Hopwood.
Hopwood's estate was given to the Regents of the University for the encouragement of creative work in writing.
The first awards were made in 1931, and today the Hopwood Program offers approximately $100,000 in prizes every year to young aspiring writers at the University of Michigan.
www.tscholars.com /encyclopedia/Hopwood_Award   (263 words)

  
 Avery Hopwood: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
Hopwood 's estate was given to the Regents of the University for the encouragement...
Avery Hopwood was an American playwright who wrote farces such as Getting Gertie's Garter[?] (1927).
He is most famous for establishing the Hopwood Award at the the University of Michigan.
www.encyclopedian.com /av/Avery-Hopwood.html   (169 words)

  
 U-M | HOPWOOD
All events are sponsored by the Hopwood Awards Program in collaboration with the University of Michigan School of Music and Theatre Department, the University of Michigan Department of English, the Office of Vice President for Communications, and the Special Collections Library, with media sponsorship by Michigan Radio and Michigan Television.
Hopwood scholars Jack Stanley and Jack Sharrar and playwright Bruce Kellner will participate in a panel discussion on Hopwood’s impact and legacy, moderated by Nicholas Delbanco and Philip Kerr.
Photos of Hopwood writers and copies of their works will be displayed in the windows of the Shaman Drum Bookshop for this event, and books by past Hopwood Award-winning authors included in the anthology will available for signing by their authors.
www.vpcomm.umich.edu /hopwood/events   (1151 words)

  
 Michigan Daily - Hopwoods honor student creative writing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Hopwood Essay Contest winner and LSA freshman Kristin Cooke said her initial reaction was that of excitement because the award was so completely unexpected.
Hopwood Essay Contest winner and LSA freshman Melissa Heller said she was also surprised to find she had won $500.
Checks were awarded to winners of the Hopwood award at the ceremony, along with a reading by published writer Rick Moody.
www.michigandaily.com /home/index.cfm?event=displayArticlePrinterFriendly&uStory_id=2987395c-a29a-4e10-b4f9-3d730b8fcbcc   (380 words)

  
 NMSU Library Award Winning Books
Awards are for books published in each calendar year, by writers living in the San Francisco Bay Area, and in California north of a line between Big Sur and Fresno.
Awards are for authors under 35 and commonwealth citizens for a first novel of a traditional or romantic nature.
The Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award was established in 1992 by the late Kate Tufts in memory of her husband, poet and writer Kingsley Tufts.
lib.nmsu.edu /depts/collserv/AWARDS99.html   (9760 words)

  
 Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Hopwood Program   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Hopwood Program administers the University of Michigan Hopwood Award in literature, as well as several other awards in writing.
The Hopwood Room serves the needs and interests of Hopwood contestants.
The Room was established by Professor Roy W. Cowden, Director of the Hopwood Awards from 1933 to 1952, who generously contributed a part of his library, which has grown through the addition of many volumes of contemporary literature.
www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/ho/Hopwood_Program   (103 words)

  
 About SI: News
Awards for screenwriting are not new to Podolsky.
She won a Hopwood Award in 2000 for "Sunday Drive," and it was produced as a play at the Department of Film & Video Studies' Festival of New Works in 2001.
Under the terms of the will of Avery Hopwood, prominent American dramatist and member of the class of 1905 of the University of Michigan, one-fifth of Hopwood's estate was given to the Regents of the University for the encouragement of creative work in writing.
www.si.umich.edu /about-SI/news-detail.htm?NewsItemID=485   (433 words)

  
 Hopwood Award
The money, and the honor, of a Hopwood Award are validation—a very public confirmation that the winner is indeed on the right track.
In the seventy-fifth year of the Hopwood Awards at the University of Michigan...
Hopwood Hall Further Education College in Rochdale and Middleton in...
www.logicjungle.com /Hopwood_Award.html   (321 words)

  
 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Avery Hopwood   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Avery Hopwood (May 28, 1882 - July 1, 1928) was an American playwright who wrote farces such as Getting Gertie's Garter (1927).
He established the Hopwood Award at the University of Michigan, an award later won by Arthur Miller for his first play.
He was born in Cleveland, Ohio and he died in Juan-les-Pins, France.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /topic/Avery_Hopwood.html   (95 words)

  
 Dexter Daily Statesman: Story: Hopwood gets Wright Bros. award from FAA
Hopwood got his start in aviation courtesy of what was then the Army Air Force in the closing days of World War 2.
Hopwood, now 82, also became a crop-dusting pilot in 1948, and flew his last season in 1998.
Hopwood has flown aircraft as diverse as the North American T-6 and T-28 training aircraft, the Beech 18, Piper Cherokee 6, DeHavilland Heron, Piper Navajo, Aerostar, MU-2, DC-3, Cessna Caravan, Cessna 150 and Cessna 172.
www.dailystatesman.com /story/1176424.html   (513 words)

  
 Biography for Arthur Miller (I)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The award was named after one of the most successful playwrights of the 1920s, who simultaneously had five hits on Broadway, the 'Neil Simon (I)' of his day.
Hopwood's suicide, on the beach of the Cote d'Azur, inspired Norman Maine's march into the SoCal surf in A Star Is Born (1937).
He was awarded the American National Medal of the Arts in 1993 by the National Endowment of the Arts in Washington D.C. Won the University of Michigan's prestigious "Hopwood Prize" for creative writing in 1938, while an undergraduate at the school.
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 University of Michigan Flint
Worth enjoyed Bennett's writing and she suggested that the two work together to prepare the manuscript for submission to the Hopwood Awards.
As part of the award, Bennett received a check for $5,000.
UM-Flint students have historically made their mark on these awards, but it's been a few years since we've had a winner.
www.umflint.edu /today/hopwood.php   (426 words)

  
 A r t h u r   M i l l e r
He also won an Obie award, a BBC Best Play Award, the George Foster Peabody Award, a Gold Medal for Drama from the National Institute of Arts and Letters, the Literary Lion Award from the New York Public Library, the John F. Kennedy Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Algur Meadows Award.
He received honorary degrees from Oxford University and Harvard University and was awarded the Prix Moliere of the French theatre, the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Lifetime Achievement Award and the Pulitzer Prize, as well as numerous other awards.
He was awarded the 2002 Prince of Asturias Award for Letters and the 2003 Jerusalem Prize.
www.arthurmiller.org /index.html   (286 words)

  
 Hopwood Award - Term Explanation on IndexSuche.Com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The first awards were made in 1931, and today the Hopwood_Program offers approximately $100,000 in prizes every year to young aspiring writers at the University of Michigan.
Summer Hopwood Contest This contest is only open to students who take writing courses during Spring and Summer terms.
Hopwood Underclassmen Contest This contest is open to freshmen and sophomores who are enrolled in writing courses.
www.indexsuche.com /Hopwood_Award.html   (234 words)

  
 STUDY  - DEATH OF A SALESMAN by ARTHUR MILLER at the Lyric Theatre
Receives second Avery Hopwood Award for Honors at Dawn, but the play is never produced.
Comes in second for Avery Hopwood Award for The Great Disobedience, which is produced at University of Michigan.
Awarded Gold Medal for Drama by National Institute of Arts and Letters.
www.delphibroadway.com /shows/salesman/study_miller_chronology.asp   (1309 words)

  
 Hopwood Award Winners   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Each was honored by the Avery and Jule Hopwood Awards Program at the University of Michigan while they were graduate students there in the 1940s.
The Hopwood Awards were established by Avery Hopwood who graduated from the school in 1905.
In August 1943, Sister Mary Alice was awarded $75 for her entry, “Essays and Sketches,” which included an essay on the life of a sister entitled, “You’re a Nun Just the Same.”
209.200.83.86 /misdocs/whats_happening/hopwood.htm   (211 words)

  
 MARK BLUNDELL
Well-known motorsport photographer, Chris Miles-Williams, was presented with the prestigious 'Dennis Hopwood Award' at Saturday's Kumho National Rally Championship annual prizegiving in Daventry.
The Dennis Hopwood trophy is presented by ANCRO, the Championship's organising body, to the person who they feel has made the biggest contribution in terms of media activity during the course of the season.
Chris, who has been photographing rally cars for the past 33 years, was delighted to receive his award.
www.mark-blundell.com /news/newsdetail.asp?championship_id=15&news_id=103622   (131 words)

  
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The lecture is part of a series of events celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Avery Hopwood and Jule Hopwood Awards, in recognition of the bequest and its legacy.
Photos of Hopwood writers and copies of their works will be displayed in the windows of the Shaman Drum Bookshop, and books by past Hopwood Award-winning authors included in the anthology will be available for signing by their authors.
Avery Hopwood, a 1905 U-M graduate who was considered the "Neal Simon of the 1920s," started the program with a donation to his alma matter.
ipumich.temppublish.com /cgi-bin/pr.cgi?/~urecord/0506/Apr03_06/08.shtml   (437 words)

  
 Freethought Heroine Award
Singer and songwriter Kristin Lems received the "Charline Kotula Freethought Heroine Memorial Award," accepting her award in person at the 1996 national convention of the Freedom From Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin.
Her early talent in writing and academics won her many awards, including a first place writing award from Scholastic Magazines, a National Merit Scholarship, and a Hopwood Award from University of Michigan.
Her other awards include "Woman of Illinois Repute" Award of the Illinois Women's Agenda, the President's Award of Illinois NOW, the Humanist Heroine Award of the American Humanist Association, and the "Founder's Award" of the Women in the Arts Foundation, for founding the National Women's Music Festival.
www.ffrf.org /awards/heroine/1996_lems.php   (395 words)

  
 Kennedy Center: Biographical information for Arthur Miller
In addition to winning the Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, he was catapulted into the realm of the great living American playwrights and also compared to Ibsen and the Greek tragedians.
Before his graduation with a B.A. degree in 1938, he had written a number of plays, winning a $500 Avery Hopwood Award in 1936 and a $1,200 Theater Guild National Award in 1938 for an effort entitled The Grass Still Grows.
The Crucible, his 1953 Broadway hit, which won a Tony Award, was about witch trials and hangings in 1692 Salem, Massachusetts, but reflected the practices of the McCarthy era of the time it was written.
www.kennedy-center.org /calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=showIndividual&entitY_id=3762&source_type=A   (794 words)

  
 hopwood award - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
hopwood award - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
Following is a list of the contests held by the Hopwood Program with a brief description of eligibility and prizes offered: The Graduate and Undergraduate Hopwood Contest
See also: University of Michigan, Arthur Miller, short story, literature, theater
www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/hopwood-award   (216 words)

  
 Arthur Miller Biography
The new draft won a major award from the Bureau of New Plays and was produced in Ann Arobor and Detriot.
His son Robert was born, and Miller took a job at a city factory assembeling berr boxes in order to stay in touch with his audience.
In 1958 the US Court of Appeals overturned Miller's conviction, and Miller was elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters, who awarded him a gold medal.
library.thinkquest.org /27864/data/miller/ambio.htm   (1280 words)

  
 HOPWOOD PROGRAM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
It is located in the Hopwood Room at the University of Michigan.
see">linkliterature, University of Michigan, Arthur Miller, Hopwood Award
It is licensed under the GNU free documentation license.
www.yotor.org /wiki/en/ho/Hopwood%20Program.htm   (108 words)

  
 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Miller was often in the public eye, most famously for refusing to give evidence before the House Un-American Activities Committee, and by virtue of his marriage to Marilyn Monroe from June 1956 through January 1961.
At the time of his death on February 10 2005, Miller, the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama among other awards, was considered one of the greatest American playwrights of all time.
On May 1 2002, Miller was awarded Spain's Principe de Asturias Prize for Literature as "the undisputed master of modern drama." Previous winners include Doris Lessing, Günter Grass and Carlos Fuentes.
www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Arthur_Miller   (2019 words)

  
 THE MICHIGAN DIFFERENCE
The Hopwood Award and its $250 stipend brought relief—and immense satisfaction.
Miller won his first of two Hopwood Awards in 1936 for a play he wrote in his rooming house.
Nearly 50 years after his first Hopwood Award, Miller worked with the UM Club of New York to establish the Arthur Miller Award for aspiring writers.
www.giving.umich.edu /leadersbest/winter2003/miller.htm   (812 words)

  
 Frank O'Hara - News
The Hopwood Awards: 75 Years of Prized Writing, edited by Nicholas Delbanco, Andrea Beauchamp, and Michael Barrett, published by the University of Michigan Press, 2006.
The 75th Anniversary of the Avery Hopwood and Jule Hopwood Awards is being celebrated in 2006 at the University of Michigan.
Among the writers represented in the anthology who received Hopwood Awards when they were students at the University of Michigan are: Max Apple, John Ciardi, Mary Gaitskill, Robert Hayden, Laura Kasischke, Jane Kenyon, Arthur Miller, Howard Moss, Frank O'Hara, Marge Piercy, Ronald Wallace, and Nancy Willard.
www.frankohara.org /update.html   (262 words)

  
 Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown 2006 Readings & Events   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
She has received awards including fellowships from the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College and the NEA, and is currently Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at Emerson College.
She has received numerous Awards and Fellowships including the Thomas R. Proctor Prize for Painting from the National Academy Museum in 2004; a New York Foundation for the Arts in 1996; and a National Endowment for the Arts in 1995.
She has received awards from the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, En Foco, Nikon, the Puffin Foundation, and Women in Photography International.
www.fawc.org /events/2004/index.shtm   (1286 words)

  
 The Jack Hopwood Memorial Award
Warren Jackson Hopwood Jr., CLU (1914-1974) was an advisor with Great-West for almost 30 years.
The Hopwood Award, available biannually, is Great-West's most prestigious form of recognition for advisors.
Also, to maintain Jack Hopwood's tradition of excellence, an award for 2005 will only be presented if a candidate is identified who fully meets the criteria outlined.
www.gwl.ca /gw-home/english/hopwood_2004   (297 words)

  
 Michigan Writers Series - Spring 2003
Her story "The Smallest Man in the World" was awarded a Pushcart Prize, and her new novel Q Road has been named a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers book.
She is a winner of a 1997 Hopwood Award, and has also served as a judge for the Hopwood Awards.
He is a contributing editor for several magazines and serves regularly as a judge for various literary awards.
www.lib.msu.edu /digital/vincent/writers/spring03/index.htm   (835 words)

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