SLSA provides a limited number of travel awards for underfunded individuals attending the annual conference. Members of SLSA who present at the annual conference may apply for travel subventions by emailing their name, title of their SLSA presentation, an indication of how long one has been a member of SLSA, and any information about their funding for the conference to the Executive Director carol.colatrella@lmc.gatech.edu by August 1. Please provide estimated travel expenses and the amount of support (if any) anticipated from other sources. If you have received travel support from SLSA in the past, please include information about that support (when and how much). SLSA officers will review applications and approve funds for as many as our budget permits; preference will be given to students and those most in need. Each person awarded funds will be presented with a US check at the conference business meeting. SLSA funds can be used to defray hotel, registration, transportation, or other travel expenses.
The Bruns Graduate Essay Prize, in honor of Edward F. Bruns, is awarded annually to the best essay written by a graduate student member of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts. Graduate students wishing to have their essays considered for the $500 prize should submit them by June 1 to Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal, University of Basel, via electronic mail to ranjodhsingh.dhaliwal@unibas.ch. Please send a copy of your formatted essay as a PDF or Word file, or send a pointer to a URL where the essay is posted. Click for the Bruns Essay Prize winners.
Lance Schachterle, founding president of the society, has established an annual prize of $250 in honor of his parents to recognize the best new essay on literature and science written in English by a nontenured scholar. Eligible authors wishing to submit essays (published or accepted for publication) should send them prior to June 1 to SLSA’s Executive Director, Carol Colatrella, LMC, Georgia Institute of Technology via electronic mail to carol.colatrella@lmc.gatech.edu. Please send a copy of your formatted essay as a PDF or Word file, or send a pointer to a URL where the essay is posted. Click for the Schachterle Essay Prize winners.
Note: the awards described above are presented during the Business Meeting of the annual fall conference. One may submit only one entry to one of the two essay prize competitions.
The Kendrick Book Prize competition will move to a new schedule in the coming year.
The Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts holds an annual competition for the Michelle Kendrick Memorial Book Prize awarded each year to the best academic book on literature, science, and the arts published by an SLSA member. The prize will be announced at the annual SLSA conference. Click for the Michelle Kendrick Memorial Book Prize winners.
Established in the fall of 2006 in memory of Michelle Kendrick of Washington State University-Vancouver, an energetic, well-loved scholar of literature and science and long-time member of SLSA, the Kendrick Prize is open to any book of original scholarship on literature, science, and the arts published in the covered period for awarding in the following fall. The winner will receive $250.00.
Thanks are owed to Bob Markley and to all those who have judged entries for the prize since 2006. All judges, but especially Bob, have been extremely generous in reviewing books according to a tight schedule. To accord judges more time, the competition will in the coming year be based on chronological year.
If you already submitted a book published before June 2024, your work is already under consideration for the 2024 prize. A decision on the 2024 prize will be announced at the August 2025 SLSA meeting at Oregon State University. If you have already submitted a book published after June 2024, your book will be forwarded and included for consideration for the 2025 prize.
To submit a book published any time from June 2024 to December 2025 as an entry to the 2025 Kendrick Prize competition, you (or your publisher) should send three copies, along with a note that this book is being submitted for consideration for 2025 Kendrick Prize, by January 5, 2026, to:
Prof. Robert Mitchell
Department of English
Box 90015
Duke University
Durham, NC 27708
Donations for the Kendrick Prize (checks made out to SLSA, with Kendrick Prize in memo) can be sent to
Carol Colatrella
SLSA Executive Director
580 Cresthill Ave.
Atlanta GA 30306
The winner of the 2025 Kendrick Book Prize will be announced at the 2026 SLSA conference, dates TBD.
The SLSA Executive Committee will each spring appoint a committee to seek and review nominations for the SLSA Lifetime Achievement award. Members of this committee will include a former President of SLSA, who will serve as chair, one currently serving member at large, and one other SLSA member. The Lifetime Achievement Awards Committee will send out an announcement asking members to nominate candidates whose significant, interdisciplinary scholarship or artwork is exemplary of SLSA. The committee members will nominate candidates and should collaborate on reviewing nominations from the membership to select a living recipient of the award or to decide not to make an award for that year. The Lifetime Achievement award will be presented at the annual business meeting. Click for the SLSA Lifetime Achievement Award winners.
