2019 English Department Awards Dinner Honors Contest Winners

On Tuesday, April 2, the English Department celebrated English Department Writing Award winners (along with those receiving outstanding alumnus and teaching awards), at its 2019 Spring Awards Ceremony.

You can find a full list of this year’s writing award winners, as well as the names of judges, on our awards page. Below are some photos from the event.

Writing Award Winners (from L to R): Will Carpenter, Andrew Weller, Rushabh Soni.
English Department Head Mark Morrisson (R) presents a teaching award to BAMA student Danielle Fruehan (L), who also won the Toby Thompson Prize for Nonfiction, as wall as 2nd place for the Steinberg Poetry Award.
BAMA 5th-year student Andrea Brown (R), winner of the Leonard Steinberg Memorial Prize in Poetry.
Toby Thompson (R) presents the Toby Thompson Prize for Literary Fiction to winner Nakul Grover.
Winners of the Mihelcic Poetry Award with the award donor Rebecca Chapman, mother of former Penn State student Mathew Mihelcic (center)
Nonfiction award winners Samantha Scherrer (L) and Daniel Zahn (R) with their writing professor, Alison Jaenicke.