{"id":119,"date":"2016-05-16T15:43:39","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T15:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eudoraweltysociety.org\/?page_id=119"},"modified":"2026-06-15T19:31:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T19:31:14","slug":"awards","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/eudoraweltysociety.org\/?page_id=119","title":{"rendered":"Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-119\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-119-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-119-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-119-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">Phoenix Award<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Phoenix award is awarded bi-annually to recognize outstanding contributions to the field of Welty studies. Recipients of the Phoenix are:<\/p>\n<p>2025-26 - Susan Donaldson<br \/>\n2023-24 - Annette Trefzer<br \/>\n2021-22 - Mae Miller Claxton<br \/>\n2019-20 - David McWhirter<br \/>\n2017-18 - Sarah Gilbreath Ford<br \/>\n2015-16 - Julia Eichelberger<br \/>\n2013-14 - Pearl McHaney<br \/>\n2011-12 - Suzan Harrison<br \/>\n2009-10 - Rebecca Mark<br \/>\n2007-08 - Harriet Pollack<br \/>\n2005-06 - Gail Mortimer<br \/>\n2003-04 - Dawn Trouard and Carey Wall<br \/>\n2001-02 - Dani\u00e8le Pitavy-Souques<br \/>\n1999-00 - Ruth D. Weston and Michael Kreyling<br \/>\n1997-98 - Albert Devlin and Suzanne Marrs<br \/>\n1995-96 - Noel Polk and Peggy Whitman Prenshaw<br \/>\n1993-94 - Ruth Vande Kieft and William U. 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style=\"position: relative;z-index:2;color:RGBA(0,0,0,0);max-height:3000px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 100%; max-width:3000px; display: block;\" class=\"n2-ow\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZlcnNpb249IjEuMCIgd2lkdGg9IjYwMCIgaGVpZ2h0PSI2MDAiID48L3N2Zz4=\" alt=\"Slider\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pg-119-1\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-119-1-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-119-1-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"2\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong>The Ruth Vande Kieft Prize<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Ruth Vande Kieft Prize, sponsored by the Eudora Welty Society, is awarded annually for the best essay on Eudora Welty by a beginning 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The prize carries with it an award of $300, and the prize-winning essay will be published in Eudora Welty Review.<\/p>\n<p>The competition is open to applicants who have not held a full-time academic appointment for more than four years. Independent scholars and graduate students are encouraged to apply.<\/p>\n<p>Essays should be 20-30 pages (including notes), original, and not under submission elsewhere or previously published. Send submissions via email in a word document to pmchaney@gsu.edu and include a brief curriculum vitae. Author\u2019s name should not appear on the typescripts. Please identify essays as submissions for the Ruth Vande Kieft Prize.<br \/>\nDecisions about regular publication are also made at the same time as the prize decision.<\/p>\n<p>Past winners:<\/p>\n<p>2025 \u2013 Gabrielle Bowden \u201cDim and Untouchable Things: Sir Arthur Eddington\u2019s The Nature of the Physical World in Drafts of Eudora Welty\u2019s \u201cThe Burning\u201d<br \/>\n2023 - Pamela J. Merryman \u201cWords Are for the Birds: The Transformative Role of Word Study in Eudora Welty\u2019s The Shoe Bird\u201d<br \/>\n2022 - Judy Butterfield \u201c\u2018An Is Different from My Is\u2019: The Lost Mother and the Subjectivity of the Motherless in Faulkner\u2019s As I Lay Dying and Welty\u2019s Delta Wedding\u201d<br \/>\n2018 - Jill Fennell \u201cAn Economics of Apathy: Anxieties of Capital and Care in <em>Delta Wedding<\/em>\"<br \/>\n2017 - Kelsey E. Moore \"'As if a rabbit had run over her grave': Gothic Girlhood in Eudora Welty's\u00a0<em>Delta Wedding\"<\/em><br \/>\n2016 - Cliff Hudder \"Race, Nature, and Decapitation in Eudora Welty's 'Curtain of Green'\"<br \/>\n2014 - Donnie McMahand and Kevin Murphy \u201c'<em>Remember<\/em> right': Disenfranchised Grief and the Commemoration of Queer Bodies in Welty\u2019s Fiction and Life.\u201d<br \/>\n2013 - Jacob Agner \u201cA Collision of Visions: Montage and the Concept of Collision in Eudora Welty\u2019s \u2018June Recital\u2019\u201d<br \/>\n2012 - Kathryn Stelmach Artuso \u201cTransatlantic Rites of Passage in the Friendship and Fiction of Eudora Welty and Elizabeth Bowen\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">Eudora Welty Research Fellowship<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Eudora Welty Foundation and the Mississippi Department of Archives and History (MDAH) sponsor the Eudora Welty Research Fellowship to encourage and support research use of the Eudora Welty Collection and related materials at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History by graduate students.<\/p>\n<p>One competitive fellowship of $5,000 will be offered for research conducted in the summer. 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