2018-2019 Undergraduate and Graduate Creative Writing Awards
Graduate Nonfiction Award
Judged by Shannon Reed
"One Last Note for Paul Nervy" by Kent Kosack
The Nordan-Kinder Award in Fiction
Judged by Anjali Sachdeva
"Just Kids" Adam Brewer
The Jean Meyer Aloe Graduate Poetry Award
Judged by Kelly Andrews
"Self-Portrait in Tongues" by Joshua Palmer
The Melissa Difatta Undergraduate Nonfiction Award
Judged by Rachel Mabe
"(Mal)Adaptation" by Philippa Zang
The American Academy of Poets Undergraduate Poetry Award
Judged by Malcolm Friend
"Kusköy in Virginia" by Leyla Çoplan
The Myron Taube Award in Fiction
Judged by Morgan Treadway Kayser
First place: "Mirage" by Drue Denmon
Second place: "Sounder" by M. Jane McAndrew
Third place: "Variations on Red" by Leyla Çoplan
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Graduate Testimonials
William Faulkner once said that few wish to write; most wish to have written. Pitt was where I fell in love with writing. Chuck Kinder was Director of the program, and he’d host legendary parties at his house in Squirrel Hill. It’s hard to explain how hanging out with Tobias Wolff or Lorin Stein, editor of The Paris Review, affected me as a 23-year old writer. The program also brought Maxine Hong Kingston, ZZ Packer, and George Saunders to campus while I was there. Being around all these writers (in some cases, eating pizza with them at the scarred wooden table in the secret poker room of the Panther Hollow Inn) was intimidating, but I learned several things, chiefly that these successful people were much more well-read (and well-practiced) than I was, and I’d better get with the program.
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