GRADUATE AWARDS:
AAP/Steinberg POETRY
Winner: Anushka Shah, “Portrait of my Mumma”
Runner up: Rachel Hynds, “Family History: Euchre”
Toby Thompson Prize—NONFICTION
Hannah Singletary, “Grow Up”
Toby Thompson Prize—FICTION
Rachel Hynds, “What Are We?”
UNDERGRADUATE AWARDS:
FICTION
Lehman—Fiction
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| #1 “Peanut Shells” by Sarah Bodnar |
| #2 “Numbers Game” by Kylie George |
| #3 “The Pause” by Carolyn Hogg* |
Nichols—Fiction
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| #1 “At Least Buy Me Dinner First” by Aiden Phillips |
| #2 “Borough Park” by Jade Williams |
| #3 “Brudermord” by Samantha Peacock |
NONFICTION
Lehman—Nonfiction
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| #1 “Painting a Life and a Death” by Julie Feathers** |
| #2 “Need” by Ashley Ustazewski |
| #3 “To Fly without Wings” by Grace DePaull |
Nichols—Nonfiction
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| #1 “An Apology” by Melissa Xu |
| #2 “Managing the Decline” by John Stafford |
| #3 “This Land” by Rachel Wozniak |
POETRY
Lehman—Poetry
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| #1 “Time” by Kira Soricelli |
| #2 “Elysian Fields, Rest” by Julia Salkind |
| #3 “The Subtle Art of Hammocking” by Caroline Brustolini |
Mihelcic—Poetry
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| #1 “Skin for Skin: A Simple Trade” by Claire Williams |
| #2 “Above My Pay Grade” and “Coffee Pot Fish Bowl” by Sarah Bodnar |
| #3 “The Two Maidens of Pompeii” and “Goddess Ghazal” by Elizabeth (Liza Rose) Brady |
Cranage—Poetry
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| #1 “Mending with Gold” by Alora Howard |
| #2 “The Star / after Andrew Hudgins’ ‘Lamentations over the Dead Christ’” by Hannah Richardson * |
| #3 “Eye in Eye / after Edvard Munch’s ‘Eye in Eye’” by Celine Gauge* |
All winners are from University Park, unless otherwise noted:
* Erie–The Behrend College
**World Campus
JUDGES FOR 2022 WRITING CONTESTS:
Undergraduate Creative Writing Awards:
Poetry: Christina Cook (Lehman & Mihelcic) and Priscilla Sneff (Cranage)
Fiction: Ellen Skirvin (Nichols) and Manini Samarth (Lehman)
Nonfiction: Timothy Loperfido (Nichols) and Andrew Bode-Lang (Lehman)
Graduate Creative Writing Awards:
Toby Thompson Prizes:
- Nonfiction: Toby Thompson
- Fiction: Susann Cokal
AAP/Steinberg Poetry Prize—Paisley Rekdal
