The English department would like to congratulate the winners of the 2013 Creative Writing Awards. Winners of the English Department Endowed Prizes for Undergraduate Creative Writing will be awarded $200 for First Prize and $100 for Second Prize in each category. Winners of the John C. Hodges Graduate Student Writing Awards will receive $500 for First Prize, $300 for Second Prize, and $100 for Third Prize in each category. The Winners of John C. Hodges Graduate Student Writing Awards will read their work as a part of the Writers in the Library series on Monday, 4/22, at 7:30pm, in the Hodges Library Auditorium.
English Department Endowed Prizes for Undergraduate Creative Writing
Bain-Swiggett Prize for Traditional Forms of Poetry
- First Prize: Lyric Dunagan, for “Beside the Interstate in Tennessee”
- Second Prize, Joshua Bishop, for “La Petite Mort”
Judge: Stephanie Duggers
Knickerbocker Prize for Non-traditional Forms
- First Prize: Chris Barton, for “Death for Ginsberg”
- Second Prize: Andrew Emitt, for “1996”
Judge: Darren Jackson
Eleanora Burke Award for Non-Fiction
- First Prize: Andrew Emitt, for “Northern Desires: The Arctic Femmes in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein”
- Second Prize: Claire Dodson, for “The Living Years”
Judge: Richard Hermes
Captain Robert E. Burke Prize for Fiction
- First Prize: Touranne Fairchild Nguyen, for “Our Precious Memories”
- Second Prize: John Thorton Williams, for “Smoke”
Judge: Tawnysha Greene
John C. Hodges Graduate Student Writing Awards
Fiction:
- First Prize: Ryan Woldruff, for “Still, This Might Be a Love Story”
- Second Prize: Daniel Wallace, for “My Arctic Circle”
- Third Prize: Tawnysha Greene, for “All God’s Children”
Judges: Dr. Laura Hoffer and Professor Chuck Maland
Poetry:
- First Prize: Stephanie Duggers, for a series of poems
- Second Prize: Christian Anton Gerard, for a series of poems (“Defense of Poetry”)
- Third Prize: Tawnysha Greene, for a series of poems
Judge: Brian Griffin