Competition for awards is open to members and non-members alike. There is no limit on the number of entries that may be submitted of one’s own work or of the work of others for any one or more of the awards.

For the Hanford (book), Samuel, and Shawcross Awards:

Books and book collections will be considered when nominated or self-nominated (self-nominations are encouraged!) and must bear an imprint of the relevant calendar year.

If you are able to provide three physical books (publishers are sometimes willing to supply review copies), please email MSA secretary, Marissa Greenberg at MiltonSocietySec@gmail.com to coordinate delivery to the awards committee.

If you are providing a pdf copy, please also email Marissa Greenberg at MiltonSocietySec@gmail.com.

For the Hanford (article), Isocrates, and Labriola Awards:

The awards committee will automatically consider articles about Milton that appear in the following journals: ELH, ELR, Milton Quarterly, Milton Studies, Modern Philology, Renaissance Quarterly, Renaissance Studies, SEL, Studies in Philology, PMLA. Members are welcome also to nominate (or self-nominate) articles in these journals.

Articles appearing elsewhere, including in book collections, must be nominated or self-nominated. To do so, please send an email to Marissa Greenberg at MiltonSocietySec@gmail.com. In the case of chapters in book collections, please include a pdf.

Except for articles appearing in the journals listed above, the Awards Committee takes no responsibility for failing to identify, locate, or consider articles on Milton that were not nominated or self-nominated.

The Labriola Award recognizes articles whose writing or publication takes place while the author holds graduate student status, but academic standing is often not evident from an authorship attribution. If you are nominating or self-nominating for the Labriola Award, please note graduate standing via an email to MiltonSocietySec@gmail.com.

The Isocrates Award recognizes a distinguished scholarly article or a substantive and intellectually rigorous public-facing piece of Milton criticism (e.g., an op-ed or story in The New York Times, LARB, or New Yorker) that demonstrates any of the myriad ways Milton matters today. The MSA Awards Committee will consider all submitted articles and essays for the Isocrates Award, and thus there need be no separate nominations for this prize. This award carries a $500 USD prize.