The 2025 René Fortin Essay Contest
The Providence College Department of English invites student scholars to submit papers for The 2025 René Fortin Essay Contest.
To qualify, you must be a sophomore, a junior, or a senior. Please submit one argument-based paper of seven to twenty pages written for a course in the Providence College English Department.
E-mail your submission to Ana Ramón-Foote, aramonfo@providence.edu, the English Department Administrative Coordinator. Her office is located in the Ruane Center for the Humanities, LL37.
Entries will be read anonymously, so in the body of your e-mail please indicate your name, class year, phone number, e-mail address, and the course for which you wrote your paper. Attach a clean copy of your paper to the e-mail as a PDF. Please do not put your name or any other personal information on the paper.
Winners will receive a monetary prize!
The deadline for submission is no later than 12pm noon on Wednesday, March 5th, 2025.
