2019 Writing Contest Winners

GRADUATE AWARDS:

AAP/Steinberg Poetry Prize: 

  • Winner:  Andrea Brown “I Put on Ella Fitzgerald and Danced Alone in My Living
    Room to Her Rendition of Summertime”
  • Runner up:  Danielle Fruehan “Growth, or, Taking Up Space”

Toby Thompson Prize—NONFICTION: Danielle Fruehan for “Things That are Also Blue”

Toby Thompson Prize—FICTION: Nakul Grover for “The Other Mothers Have Left”

UNDERGRADUATE AWARDS:


Lehman—Fiction
Nichols—Fiction
1.   “Beneath the Frozen Sky” by Phillip Ho 1.   “Ben’s Day” by Miranda Byrne
2.   “To Believe in Tomorrow” by Kelly Jedrzejewski 2.   “All Ended Well” by Alice Rong **
3.   “A Social Experiment” by Kristina Stokes ** 3.   “Miasma” by Gillian Pribicko *

Lehman—NON Fiction
Nichols—NON Fiction
1.  “White Walls” by Brooks West 1.  “The Light Enters Through the Cracks”
by Samantha Scherrer
2.   “Can You See the Real Me, Twitter?”
by Steven Schneible		 2. “The R Word” by Brooks West
3. “On Refugees” by Samantha Scherrer 3. “The Language of the Branches”
by Daniel Zahn

Lehman—Poetry
1.   “Ghosts” by Neomi Chao *
2.    “Private Lessons with Mrs. Natarajan” by Nakul Grover
3.    “Love Seat” by Susan Muth

Cranage—Poetry
1.  “Melt” by Jessica Traub
2. “To the Ten Mice” and “this summer, i had a rock collection” by Anushka Shah
3. “Apollo” by Iris Ahmed

Mihelcic—Poetry
1. “Freeze All Blue & Black” by Andrew Weller
2.  “Learning to Frown” by William Carpenter
3.  “The River Ganges” by Rushabh Soni
4.  “Yo Soy Puertoriqueño” by Hannah Cardona

All winners are from University Park, unless otherwise noted:
*Erie—The Behrend College
**Harrisburg

JUDGES FOR 2019 WRITING CONTESTS

Graduate Creative Writing Awards:

Toby Thompson Prizes:

  • Nonfiction: Katie Fallon and Paul Kellermann
  • Fiction: Morris Collins and Rita Ceresi

AAP/Steinberg Poetry Prize—Kimiko Hahn

Undergraduate Creative Writing Awards:

Poetry: Jennifer Richter (Lehman & Mihelcic) and Will Woolfitt (Cranage)
Fiction: Mary Rohrer-Dann (Nichols) and Dimitri Anastasopoulos (Lehman)
Nonfiction: Lisa Rose (Nichols) and Peter Chilson (Lehman)