The USC Libraries are now accepting submissions for the Eighth-Annual USC Libraries Wonderland Award.

The Wonderland Award is an annual multidisciplinary competition showcasing the creative and interpretive skills of students from USC and other participating institutions as they draw inspiration for new creative works from the G. Edward Cassady, M.D., and Margaret Elizabeth Cassady, R.N., Lewis Carroll Collection. The contest is made possible through a generous gift by Linda Cassady, who created the award in 2005 to promote the collection of books, recordings, academic papers, and other items related to the 19th-Century author and polymath Lewis Carroll. 

Submissions are due Monday, April 2, and the winners will be announced at an award reception at 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 19. All undergraduate and graduate students from USC and participating institutions are eligible to submit entries. The first place prize is $2,500 and second place $1,500. For competition guidelines and more information on the award, please visit the Wonderland Award page.

Students seeking inspiration for their entries should attend "Wonderland and the Mathematical Imaginary" on Wednesday, February 22. The multidisciplinary discussion explores another side of Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and features science writer and USC Libraries Discovery Fellow Margaret Wertheim, mathematics professor Francis Bonahon, and English professor Jim Kincaid. The event begins at 11:00 a.m. in Doheny Library's second-floor Friends of the USC Libraries Lecture Hall.

 

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