GRADUATE AWARDS:

AAP/Steinberg POETRY

Winner: “Evidence of our Existence” by Aliyah Rios
Runner up: “Coming together as if tethered” by Claire Williams

Toby Thompson Prize—NONFICTION

“A Letter to Korea” by Dana Lynch 

Toby Thompson Prize—FICTION                                            

“The Chemist” by Julianna Herriott

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UNDERGRADUATE AWARDS:

FICTION

Lehman—Fiction

#1 “Birdwatching” by Maria Pavlenko

#2 “Pumpkin” by Ana Avila-Ramirez*

#3 “Oaken Ash” by Keegan Fobes

Nichols—Fiction

#1 “Noah’s Church” by Emily Jenkins

#2 “Would You Still Love Me If I Was a Worm?” by Elliott Rose

#3 “All I Have Left” by Kendall Kutzavitch

NONFICTION

Lehman—Nonfiction

#1 “Am I The Bean?” by Troi Howell

#2 “The Place to Be” by Julia Mertes

Nichols—Nonfiction

#1“Left in the Dust” by Ethan Capitano

#2 “Womanhood” by Molly Lucas

#3 “Along for the Ride” by Ryan Crinnigan**

POETRY

Lehman—Poetry

#1 “Ars Poetica: Saying Poetry at Penn State” by Katie Dallas

#2 “The Architect” by Elias Lenkner*

#3 “Under the Fort Jenkins Bridge” by Ethan Capitano

Mihelcic—Poetry

#1 “Together, Lost” by Elias Lenkner*

#2 “Circles” by Claire Williams

#3 “The Lockdown Mermaid,” by Kylie (Ky) McKenna

#4 “New World Pandemic” by Sophia Alexander

Cranage—Poetry

#1 “The Death of Something Forgotten” by Keegan Fobes

#2 “FALLOUT by Kylie (Ky) McKenna

#3 “Bananas” by Corrina Sigmund

All winners are from University Park, unless otherwise noted:
* Erie–The Behrend College
**World Campus

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JUDGES FOR 2024 WRITING CONTESTS:

Undergraduate Creative Writing Awards:

Poetry: 

• • Camille-Yvette Welsch (Cranage)
  • Lee Peterson (Lehman & Mihelcic)

Fiction:

• • Tim Loperfido (Nichols)
  • Julianna Baggott (Lehman)

Nonfiction:

• • Sheila Squillante (Nichols)
  • Sascha Skucek (Lehman)

Graduate Creative Writing Awards:

Toby Thompson Prizes:

• • Nonfiction: Christine Hume
  • Fiction: Ken McCullough

AAP/Steinberg Poetry Prize—Kelle Groome