Student Activities

The English Department has numerous organizations and venues for its majors:

• The English Club
  
• Sigma Tau Delta, the English honor society
  
• Pure Genius, a creative writing club
  
• Nubian Xpressions, a drama club
  
• New Voices, Student Literary Arts Journal
  

Student Fellowship, Scholarship and Contest Activities

Fellowships

• Harcourt Fellowship
  
• UNCF Mellon Fellowship
  
• A GradStar series of summer internships
  

Scholarships in Creative Writing

• Truman Capote Creative Writing Award (two per year, $10, 145 each)
  
• National Association of University Women(two per year, $750)
  
• Nora Pierce Creative Writing Award ($1000)
• National Endowment for the Arts ($500 per semester for two years starting Fall 2002)
  

Contests

• Outstanding Freshman Essay Contest ($50)
• Xavier University Poetry Slam