Sigma Tau Delta’s Summer Awards Cycle will be open June 23 through July 14, 2025, 4:00 p.m. CT. During the 2025 Summer Awards Cycle, applications are being accepted for the Outstanding Chapter Award, Classroom Library Grants, Internship Stipends for the fall 2025 semester, Priority Selection for PRH Summer 2026 Internship, and Priority Selection for W. W. Norton for the fall 2025 semester. Learn more about these opportunities below and consider applying via our AwardSpring platform.
Outstanding Chapter Award
Sigma Tau Delta’s Outstanding Chapter Award is designed to recognize local chapters that have exhibited outstanding motivation, creativity, and service in the preceding year. Award recipients will receive a check for up to $500 and a plaque. Winning chapters may also receive up to $350 in travel assistance for sending at least one student representative to the annual convention and bringing a chapter exhibit. Any active chapter is eligible to apply for an Outstanding Chapter Award, but no chapter may receive an Outstanding Chapter Award in consecutive years. Chapters that wish to apply must have completed the 2024-2025 Chapter Annual Report. Note: For the first time in 2025, applications for the Outstanding Chapter Award are moving from an email submission to our AwardSpring platform. Visit the Outstanding Chapter Award webpage for details on how to apply.
Classroom Library Grants
Sigma Tau Delta’s Classroom Library Grants are designed to enhance the Society’s goals of promoting interest in literature and language in the surrounding communities; fostering all aspects of the discipline of English, including literature, language, and writing; and serving society by fostering literacy. The Classroom Library Grants are also intended to support our members who have entered the field of teaching and need material support to help achieve these goals through their work in the classroom by providing their students with a library in their own classrooms, especially where access to school or public libraries or to books in the home may be limited.
The Society will award up to five grants of $400 each per cycle to help alumni members of Sigma Tau Delta who have been teaching in a Middle School or High School classroom for five years or fewer. That is, applicants may or may not be recent college graduates; the Classroom Library Grant is intended to help new Middle School and High School teachers, whether in their first years out of college or in the first years of a second career, to build a classroom library for their students.
Community Service Internship Stipend
Sigma Tau Delta Community Service Internship Stipends offer funding for current undergraduate and graduate student members accepting internships for which their expenses exceed what they will be paid. Sigma Tau Delta will not cover expenses related to tuition and/or student fees. The Community Service Internship Stipend is a competitive program providing a limited number of stipends of up to $1,500 each. The internship must involve working for an “organization” while being directed by a supervisor/mentor within that organization, and the intern’s duties must be consistent with the applicant’s level of education, area of study, and career goals. Financial need will be taken into consideration in addition to internship length. Applicants are responsible for obtaining and providing verification of the internship.
Penguin Random House Internship: Priority Selection Application
The Penguin Random House internship program offers candidates the opportunity to work in the Penguin Random House Adult & Children’s divisions, attend weekly professional development programming, and learn about the world of publishing. This program is intended to provide opportunities for racially/ethnically underrepresented groups in the publishing industry. Active chapter members interested in learning about the world of marketing in book publishing are encouraged to apply. No prior publishing experience is required.
Interns will work remote for 21 hours per week at a pay rate of $20/hr. Intern schedules will be flexible to account for candidates who may be located in a variety of time zones. PRH offers internships in such areas as Editorial, Marketing, Publicity, Sales, Art/Design, Legal, Book Making, Finance, and Subrights. Internship offerings vary from cycle to cycle and will be announced by PRH when they open their application portal.
The Sigma Tau Delta Summer Awards Cycle is accepting applications for priority consideration to the summer 2026 PRH Internship. Sigma Tau Delta will submit the selected priority candidates from our Summer Awards Cycle to PRH during their application window in September.
W. W. Norton Internship: Priority Selection Application
Sigma Tau Delta is partnering with the W. W. Norton College Division to offer Sigma Tau Delta student and alumni members the opportunity to gain experience in college/university publishing through a 12-week W. W. Norton Internship program. Internships provide valuable hands-on experience with the day-to-day work that brings books into existence, as well as opportunities to network with employees at the company and with fellow interns who frequently go on to become colleagues in the field.
Interns at W. W. Norton are paid $16 per hour and work a maximum of 20 hours weekly. Specific work hours are flexible, but interns are expected to work three or four days per week. All interns must be able to work during regular business hours (9 a.m. to 5 p.m. EST).
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