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Awards Programme
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Awards Programme
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Maitland Banting Silver Quill Award
Hamilton Association Young Poet's Award Recent winning entries for the above literary awards can be read on the Hamilton Public Library's Power of the Pen website. |
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The Association currently offers annual awards of up to $200 each to teenaged entrants (age 12 to 18) in the Hamilton Public Library's Power of the Pen literary competition for fiction in short-story format.
The focus of this award is excellence in the use of the English language, with emphasis on the clarity and effectiveness of the writing. Power of the Pen entry forms are available at branches of the Hamilton Public Library in May. Award winners and their families are invited to attend a presentation ceremony, usually held in October at the Cenral Branch of the Hamilton Public Library.
This Award was first presented in 1982 as part of the Association's 125th anniversary celebrations, due in large measure to the inspiration and efforts of the late Maitland Banting (1901-2003). Mr. Banting oversaw the Silver Quill Award until 1997, when the Association joined forces with HPL's Power of the Pen competition. The Association renamed the award in 2000 to honour the many years of devoted attention given to it by Mr. Banting.
Recent recipients of this award.
In 2001 the Association inaugurated an annual poetry award as a companion prize to its prose award, the Maitland Banting Silver Quill Award. Prizes of up to $200 each are awarded by Association judges to teenaged entrants in the Hamilton Public Library's Power of the Pen competition for poetry. Award winners and their families are invited to attend a presentation ceremony, usually held in October at the Cenral Branch of the Hamilton Public Library.
Recent recipients of this award.
One or two annual prizes of up to $200 each may be awarded to students entered in the Bay Area Science and Engineering Fair, whose projects demonstrate creativity combined with sound understanding of the scientific method. The Fair is usually held in late March or early April. Judging is by qualified Association members. Winners are announced during the Fair's closing ceremonies.
Recent recipients of this award.