The Nancy Dasher Award, given by the College English Association of Ohio (CEAO), recognizes outstanding publications by faculty members from a CEAO-member department in one of three areas each year: professional and pedagogical issues, creative writing, and literary scholarship and criticism (including theory). The 2023-24 award will be in the category of Creative Writing. All books published during the calendar years 2020-2023 are eligible for nomination.
Please note that CEAO is the only higher-education English association in Ohio and an affiliate of the College English Association. As such, we wish to honor the work of Ohio creative writers.
Requirements: The work must be authored by an Ohio resident, peer-reviewed, and published between 2020 and 2023 by a reputed press. A quality scholarly or creative work, it must provide an original contribution to the field; edited anthologies do not qualify. On-line publications will be handled on a case by case basis.
Nomination Procedure: The chair of each member department that has paid its CEAO dues for the academic year 2023-24 may nominate one or more books by members of his or her faculty, based on department size. Departments with 1-10 members may submit one entry; 11-30 may submit two entries; 31-50 may submit three entries; and over 50 may submit four. Additional submissions may be considered on a case by case basis. The CEAO membership dues form is available to download here: Dues Notice CEAO 2023-2024
Please send three copies of each nominated work, as well as a short cover letter that includes the institution’s name, person nominating the work, and the author’s contact information to:
Dr. Judith Lanzendorfer
The University of English
1000 North Main Street
Findlay, OH 45840
Phone: 419-434-4765
Email: lanzendorfer@findlay.edu
Alternatively, submitters may send one physical copy and one electronic copy.
Please include a short cover note indicating that the books are to be considered for the Nancy Dasher Award.
Deadline for receipt of nominations: March 1, 2024.
The Nancy Dasher Award is announced formally at the annual Spring Meeting of CEAO.
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