GRANTS

School of the Art Institute

Graduate Students

Riesling Dong – Family are the friends you don't get to choose

Lanxuan Florence Liu – Intertwined

Undergraduate Student

Sara S. Liu – Can Parakeets Fly Without Their Tailfeathers

University of Iowa Center for the Book

María Carolina Ceballos – Un Libro (A Book)

Amy Childress – Inhabited

Robert Henderson – Children and Mother

The T. Kimball Brooker Prize for Undergraduate Book Collecting has been announced.

2020 Prize Winners

Katrina Keegan, for her collection of Soviet-era publications of Russian literary classics

Amanda Wong, for her collection of beautiful books on American modernism (fine art)

Prize Winners are each entitled to a $2,000 cash prize from the University of Chicago as well as a year-long membership in the Caxton Club, plus two Caxton event lunch or dinner passes and a copy of Other People’s Books.

2019 Prize Winners

Daniel Jake Eberts

Samuel D. Barton

2018 Prize Winners 

Clare Kemmerer

Anna Wood

The Caxton Club recognizes this year's Honey & Wax Prize winners, announced by The Paris Review!

For more information about the award winners and their collections, go to https://www.honeyandwaxbooks.com/prize.php.

The winner of the 2020 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize will receive $1,000, and five honorable mentions will each receive $250.

2020

Miriam Borden

Honorable Mention

Emily Wells

Margaret Grace Myers

Kaitlyn Jennings

Jamie Mastrogiacomo

Stacy Shirk

2019

Emily Forster

Honorable Mention

Hannah Batsel

Julia Fine

Nathalie Levine

Arendse Lund

Cara Santarsiera

2018

Jessica Jordan

Honorable Mention

Margaret Landis

Miranda Marraccini

Michelle Porter

Marielle Stockton

2017

Jessica Kahan

Honorable Mention

Nora Benedict

Caitlin Downey

Sherese Francis

Samantha Montano

Ashley Rose Young

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The Caxton Club Scholarship is awarded to an individual living in the Midwest with professional interests in bibliography, book history, or the book arts who has not previously attended RBS.

The successful applicant must live in one of the following states: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota or Wisconsin. The award will fund tuition as well as travel and housing costs up to a total of $2500.00.  This scholarship will be awarded to first-time RBS attendees and preference will be given to candidates early in their careers who are ineligible for funding or financial aid through their places of employment.

Applications will be accepted directly by RBS starting October 1.  To apply, please submit an RBS scholarship application by the November 1 deadline at  https://rarebookschool.org/admissions-awards/scholarships

The Caxton Club is pleased to announce its support for Georgia State University historian Nick Wilding and his efforts encouraging student book collecting. We’ve already appreciated Nick’s program to our club on the forgery of Galileo’s Sidereus Nuncius and his central role in its exposure. The Bibliographical Society of America recently recognized Nick with a Community Grant which he applied to establishing a contest for Georgia State student book enthusiasts. Winners of this contest are Cole Hale, David Casey, and Fariha Hossain. A copy of the club’s publication, Other People’s Books: Association Copies and the Stories They Tell, has been sent with a letter of congratulations to each winner.

2020 – Kerri Mulcare

2019 – Kadin Henningsen

2017 – Matthew Blackwell

2016 – Sarah Evenson

2015 – Lindsey O’Brien