The Fifth-Annual Wonderland Award
*WHAT: Explore, interpret, and transform Lewis Carroll and win prizes
*WHO: All undergraduate and graduate students at USC are eligible
*WHEN: The deadline for entries is April 1, 2010; winners will be announced at a reception in late April in Doheny Library
*AWARD: First prize, $2,000; Second prize, $1,500
ABOUT THE CONTEST
The Wonderland Award is an annual multidisciplinary competition that encourages new scholarship and creative work related to Lewis Carroll (1832-1898), the English logician, mathematician, photographer, and nonsense poet who is especially remembered for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking Glass (1871).
ENTRIES
The format for Wonderland Award entries is limited only by the imagination. We accept a broad range of submissions, including scholarly essays, poems, performance pieces, videogames, animation, visual artworks, music, digital compositions, and films.
*All USC undergraduate and graduate students are eligible. Entries must have been completed while students were enrolled at USC. They must include an artist's statement to explain how they relate to Lewis Carroll.
*The entries are judged by their combination of scholarly research, creativity, and use of the Lewis Carroll Collection on the second floor of Doheny Library.
*In addition, entries are judged on their appearance and aesthetic quality. Written entries will be assessed by editorial criteria, such as their writing style and use of grammar and punctuation.
*Finally, entries are judged on how well they reflect the spirit and sensibilities of Lewis Carroll, including his thought, interests, sense of humor, and whimsy. The judges look for entries with distinctive qualities that set them apart from the other contest submissions.
By submitting an entry, you agree that all award entry submissions will become part of the G. Edward Cassady, M.D. and Margaret Elizabeth Cassady, R.N. Lewis Carroll Collection of the USC Libraries and that you grant to the USC Libraries a non-exclusive license to publish the entries in the future.
WHERE TO START
To get ideas and learn more about the life and work of Lewis Carroll, explore the Cassady Collection. You can browse the contents of the collection at www.usc.edu/libraries/carroll. Visit USC Libraries Special Collections in Doheny Library, Room 206, to view rare Carroll-related books, illustrations, and artwork, as well as previous winning entries.
HOW TO ENTER
For questions regarding the competition, contact Tyson Gaskill at (213) 740-2070 or gaskill@usc.edu. Submit entries to the 3rd-floor reception desk at Doheny Library.
(read less)The Fifth-Annual Wonderland Award
*WHAT: Explore, interpret, and transform Lewis Carroll and win prizes
*WHO: All undergraduate and graduate students at USC are eligible
*WHEN: The deadline for entries is April 1, 2010; winners will be announced at a reception in late April in Doheny Library
*AWARD: First prize, $2,000; Second prize, $1,500
ABOUT THE CONTEST
The Wonderland Award is an annual multidisciplinary competition that encourages new scholarship and creative work related to Lewis...
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