Grants and Writing Resources for Wheaton College
In fall 2025 the Lincoln Academy of Illinois gave its Abraham Lincoln Civic Engagement Award to a Wheaton senior majoring in history and Spanish and enrolled in the History Honors Program, an honor that came with a Lincoln medallion and a $1,000 stipend.
Writing Prizes
The English department runs several writing contests. In the Lowell-Grabill Creative Writing Contest, which grew out of an alum's wish to promote creative writing at Wheaton, students enter one poem of up to five pages, or a story or essay of up to 7,500 words. Literature and writing professors pick the finalists and an outside judge picks the winner, who is honored at an awards night where the judge reads; finalists join a master class.
The Jameson Critical Essay Contest asks for a persuasive critical essay with a distinctly Christian perspective and at least six secondary sources, written for a Wheaton course in the last two years and endorsed by a faculty member. The Jameson First-Year Writing Award goes to outstanding research papers from ENGW 103 or ENGW 104, and winners are published in Wheaton Writing, the college's online journal of academic essays. No student can win more than one Jameson award. Wheaton's Anthropology, Sociology, & Urban Studies Department also holds the annual Ivan J. Fahs Student Paper Competition for undergraduates.
Student Publications
Kodon, first published in 1946, prints student fiction, nonfiction, poetry and art once each semester, and its student staff edit and design every issue and host readings. Every student is invited to submit. Wheaton's other student-led publications include the Record, the campus newspaper since 1890, Sub-Creation, an online journal for genre fiction, essays and art, and The Pub, a forum for academic and artistic discussion about faith and intellectual life.
The Writing Center
Undergraduate and graduate students in any discipline can book a thirty-minute, one-on-one session at the Writing Center on the first floor of the library, near the computer labs. Consultants work with writers at any stage of a project, and they offer English language support to students writing in English as a second language. Students can also apply to be consultants through a selective application process.
Funding for Doctoral Students
Every student admitted to the Ph.D. in Biblical and Theological Studies receives full tuition and a research fellowship, and some also receive stipends for conference travel. The program admits six students a year. Its dissertations must be original research with integrative, biblical-theological significance, and students start their proposals in the first semester.
In clinical psychology, the program's grants and scholarships include a conference travel scholarship of up to $650 a year for Ph.D. students presenting research with a faculty member, a Diversity & Justice Mini-Grant of up to $1,000 for projects on cultural diversity and biblical justice, and dissertation support of up to $500 for direct costs such as printing, postage and equipment.
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From Our Writing Guides
Compiled by James Peterson Brown, PhD, Managing Editor of Editors For Students. Links checked October 2026.
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