About

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Wonderland Award

Curiosity

Discovery

Creativity

Click USC Cassady Lewis Carrol Collection Bibliography to view the contents of the Carroll Collection.

The Wonderland Award is an annual multidisciplinary competition at the University of Southern California that encourages new scholarship and creative work related to Lewis Carroll. A primary goal is to promote use of the G. Edward Cassady, M.D., and Margaret Elizabeth Cassady, R.N., Lewis Carroll Collection, held in Doheny Library at USC, a large and respected North American research collection.

Our students have created new interpretations and incarnations of Alice in a contemporary, interdisciplinary, and multimedia context. In the last 17 years, over 500 students have reimagined, reinterpreted, and remixed Carroll’s stories. Submissions include film and screenplays; poetry and readings; short fiction; book art [writing desks, boxes of wonder, missing diaries]; music, lyrics, scores, and performances; art [photography, painting, digital art, art installations]; ballet and dance; board and digital games [with music, readings, and polysyllogisms]; illustrated novels; arts and crafts [dolls, ceramic tea sets, and fashion], and scholarly essays.

This site includes most of the student work for the last 17 years, except for fiction and non-fiction entries. Fiction entries are in The Liddell Book of Fiction published in two volumes by the USC Libraries and available on Amazon.