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?”

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UNDERGRADUATE AWARDS:

FICTION

Lehman—Fiction

#1 “Peanut Shells” by Sarah Bodnar

#2 “Numbers Game” by Kylie George

#3 “The Pause” by Carolyn Hogg*

Nichols—Fiction

#1 “At Least Buy Me Dinner First” by Aiden Phillips

#2 “Borough Park” by Jade Williams

#3 “Brudermord” by Samantha Peacock

NONFICTION

Lehman—Nonfiction

#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

#1 “An Apology” by Melissa Xu

#2 “Managing the Decline” by John Stafford

#3 “This Land” by Rachel Wozniak

POETRY

Lehman—Poetry

#1 “Time” by Kira Soricelli

#2 “Elysian Fields, Rest” by Julia Salkind

#3 “The Subtle Art of Hammocking” by Caroline Brustolini

Mihelcic—Poetry

#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

#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

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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