2016-17 Creative Writing Awards
Undergraduate Poetry Award
Judge: Rachel Nelson
First Place: Mia DiFelice for "Coming Quietly"
Second Place: Alexis Kennell for "The Waltz of the Bees"
Third Place: Maya Best for "To Toes"
Honorable mention: Matthew Walker for "Rap (v.) (n.)"
Monty Culver: Judges
Tom McWhorter & Cumi Ikeda
First Place: Gabrielle Pogel for “Breaking and Entering”
Honorable Mention: Britney Meiser for “In the Trees”
Honorable Mention: David Wade for “East Maiden”
Taube Award for Fiction
Judged by Myron Taube, Craig Bernier, & Mark Kemp
First: Kelchis Radziewicz for "The Dark One—Crystalline Sincerity—Mouths of Shadows"
Second: David Wade for East Maiden
Third: Shannon Pender for "The Dust We Wore"
Turow-Kinder Award for Fiction
Judged By Jeffrey Condran
First Place: Rachel Ann Brickner for "American Made"
Second Place: Adam Brewer for "Glossolalia"
Third Place: Hannah Eko for "Every Young Woman's War"
Graduate Nonfiction Award
Judged by Doug Swanson
Lucia LoTempio for "The How of Love"
Academy of American Poets Graduate Poetry Award
Judged by Brandon Som
First Place: Ariana Brown, for “Ahuacatl”
Second Place: Stefan Triplett for “Baptism”
Third Place: Stephanie Cawley for “Bridle”
Melissa Difatta Undergraduate Nonfiction Award
Judged by Jennifer Matesa
First: Ellen Kruczek for "The Naked Human”
Honorable Mention: Sophie McHugh for "Nervosa"
Honorable Mention: Margaret Wilson Millure for "Wife"