Graduate Student Essay Award

SAMLA is pleased to accept nominations of outstanding graduate student presentations given at the previous year's conference. The Graduate Student Essay Award includes a $250 honorarium, publication in the South Atlantic Review, and complimentary conference registration for the following year.

Nominations for this award are currently closed.

Please contact Dan Abitz at [email protected] or (404) 413-5816 with any questions.

2018 Graduate Student Essay Award Winner

Cameron Lee Winter, University of Georgia
“’I ain’t got any use for it’: Contemporary Christian Kitsch and Iconography in Flannery O’Connor’s ‘Parker’s Back’”