Aleida Rodriguez Memorial Award in Creative Writing

The Aleida Rodriguez Memorial Award in Creative Writing--created in honor of Aleida Rodriguez, who died of breast cancer in 2012--provides financial support for ASU graduate students who want to pursue a career in creative writing. One annual award is given to a selected MFA in Creative Writing student. Awards alternate by year: in Fall 2016 the recipient was a fiction writer; the Fall 2017 recipient was a poet. The next submission deadline, in FICTION, will be OCTOBER 11, 2018, by 5:00pm.